All eyes are on Pete Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbard, and Robert F. Kennedy, but former national security officials argue that the most important confirmation hearing is flying completely under the radar. President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director,

Families of American hostages held by the Taliban in Afghanistan have asked Joe Biden “to do the right thing” and bring the men home before he leaves office, after months of lobbying the outgoing president to broker a deal with the hardline Islamist regime.

President Biden spoke by phone Sunday with the families of three Americans held by the Taliban, Ryan Corbett, George Glezmann and Mahmood Habibi.

In an exit interview with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly, CIA Director William Burns says he still thinks "there's a chance" for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war.

Fmr CIA analyst Sarah Adams made the case for US to stop funding Taliban, predicting, "2025 will be a reckoning..."

The Taliban say they are demanding the release of three people, including Muhammad Rahim, the only Afghan national left at Guantánamo Bay.

The Taliban, who deny holding Habibi ... Rahim was "the last person brought into the CIA torture program," said Connell, referring to an agency program instituted after the Sept.

Early in his tenure, in the summer of 2021, he flew to Kabul to negotiate with the Taliban over the U.S. withdrawal ... Back at headquarters, he reoriented the CIA's priorities and budget to ...

Words matter, but looking back on his time as the head of the world’s most important spy agency, Burns also had numbers on his mind. By his own count, he had made 84 trips overseas during his four years as director of the CIA.

A Florida jury found CNN defamed a security consultant in a story that suggested he was charging "exorbitant prices" to evacuate people trying to flee Afghanistan after the U.S. withdrawal in 2021.

A Florida jury found CNN defamed a security consultant in a story that suggested he was charging "exorbitant prices" to evacuate people trying to flee Afghanistan after the U.S. withdrawal in 2021.

A Florida jury concluded the network smeared the man’s reputation, awarding $5 million for losses and suffering and weighing additional punitive damages.