Olivia Gazis covers intelligence and international security matters for CBS News. Twice Emmy-nominated, she has traveled worldwide with the secretary of state and contributes reporting on intelligence ...

At an appearance in California, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was noncommittal about releasing the full video of a U.S. military attack on a boat in the Caribbean. By Ashley Ahn Defense Secretary ...

James LaPorta is a national security coordinating producer in CBS News' Washington bureau. He is a former U.S. Marine infantryman and veteran of the Afghanistan war. The U.S. military's early ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Saturday defended the Sept. 2 strike that killed the survivors of an initial U.S. military attack on an alleged drug boat. Hegseth made the remarks at the Reagan ...

The commander who oversaw the controversial boat strike in the Caribbean on Sept. 2 briefed lawmakers on Capitol Hill on Thursday. Rescue helicopter returns to Oregon town following Trump ...

Two survivors of the attack were said to struggle to cling to the boat before a second strike. After the briefing with lawmakers, the military disclosed a boat strike on Thursday that killed four ...

Rep. Jim Himes of Connecticut, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, commented after seeing a video of two boat strike survivors in what he said was “clear distress” at a classified ...

WASHINGTON — The White House confirmed Monday that the U.S. did launch a second strike on an alleged drug boat from Venezuela in early September and that it was ordered by Adm. Frank M. Bradley, who ...

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The U.S. military struck an alleged drug-trafficking boat in the Caribbean — at the center of a controversy involving Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth — four times during a Sept. 2 attack, according ...

The legislative provision is tucked into a must-pass Pentagon policy bill. Members of Congress are tracking to pass new legislation that would compel Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to provide ...

They came as the commander who launched the strike headed to brief lawmakers. New details emerged Wednesday about the second strike by the U.S. military on an alleged drug smuggling boat on Sept. 2 ...