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Former US national security advisor John Bolton is shown wearing a stripped suit and red tie and adjusting his glasses.

Trump asked China to help him win in 2020, offered ‘favors to dictators,’ Bolton says

Trump administration

In a withering behind-the-scenes portrayal, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton accused him of sweeping misdeeds that included explicitly seeking Chinese President Xi Jinping’s help to win re-election.

US President Donald Trump is shown sitting at a wooden table next to then Defense Secretary James Mattis with the US flag behind them.

Mattis, Obama speak out; The anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown; Arctic oil spill

Top of The World
Two US soldiers are shown looking out at the Washington Monument with the US Capitol Building off in the distance.

After long silence, Mattis denounces Trump and military response to crisis

Protest
A view of a test missile launch with an American flag flying

‘World War C’: How did national security miss the coronavirus?

Military
Acting US Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan is shown standing behind a podium with a microphone, looking to his right.

Shanahan withdraws from consideration to be US defense secretary

Military
A masked Syria fighter stands in front of an American tank and some troops.

When the US pulls out of Syria, what happens to ISIS?

Global Politics

President Donald Trump closed out 2018 with the announcement that ISIS has been defeated. Analysts say otherwise.

A man is shown waving to a large MRAP US military vehicle with a dust cloud coming up from the truck.

US says there’s no timeline for Syria withdrawal as fighting continues

The United States has no timeline for the withdrawal of American troops from Syria but does not plan to stay indefinitely, a senior State Department official said on Friday.

President Donald Trump is shown walking with Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan with his right hand raised waving at the camera.

Syrian surprise: How Trump’s phone call changed the war

President Donald Trump’s declaration in a phone call with Tayyip Erdoğan that he was pulling US troops from Syria stunned Turkey and left it scrambling to respond to the changing battlefield on its southern border.

US Defense Secretary Mattis stands on a tarmac in front of a US airplane and talks with military men in uniform

Mattis letter points to ‘weakest aspects’ of Trump’s foreign policy

Ambassador Nick Burns calls Mattis’ resignation “a significant blow to the United States” and says that the publicly-released resignation letter was “a resignation in protest against the feckless policies of President Trump.”

US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis walks past a row of Chinese soldiers

Defense chief Mattis resigns after clashing with Trump on policies

Politics

Mattis announced plans to resign in a candid resignation letter to Trump that laid bare the growing divide between them, and implicitly criticized President Trump’s disregard for America’s closest allies.