Michael Schmidt

It is an iconic photograph of American patriotism, depicting the heroism of service members raising the flag over Iwo Jima during World War II, which inspired the book and movie “Flags of Our Fathers.”

Pentagon officials have concluded that hundreds more trainers, advisers and commandos from the United States and its allies will need to be sent to Iraq and Syria in the coming months as the campaign to isolate the Islamic State intensifies.

Federal prosecutors plan to charge Enrique Marquez, the neighbor and friend of Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, in connection with the shooting that left 14 people dead.

FBI director James B. Comey said Wednesday that the couple who waged a shooting rampage in California, last week had been talking of an attack as far back as two years ago, before the U.S. gave the woman approval to enter the country.

The couple who carried out the deadly attack that killed 14 people here last week had long been radicalized and had been practicing at a target range days before their murder spree.

On the day she and her husband killed 14 people and wounded 21 others, a woman pledged allegiance to the Islamic State in a Facebook post, officials said, as the FBI announced that it was treating the massacre as an act of terrorism.

San Bernardino police spent the night combing the scene of a shooting rampage that left 14 dead and 17 others wounded and examining the backgrounds of two suspects, a husband and wife who died in a shootout, looking for reasons behind the attack.

Republican lawmakers spent more than eight hours aggressively questioning Hillary Rodham Clinton to build a case that she had been derelict in her duty to secure the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya.

Partisan tensions between the leaders of the House committee investigating the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, erupted Sunday, just four days before Hillary Rodham Clinton is scheduled to testify at a public hearing of the panel.

Government investigators have discovered four emails containing what they say is classified information on the personal email account that Hillary Rodham Clinton used as secretary of state, the investigators said in a letter to Congress released Friday.

Swiss authorities conducted an extraordinary early-morning operation here Wednesday to arrest several top soccer officials and extradite them to the United States on federal corruption charges.

Hillary Rodham Clinton said late Wednesday that she had asked the State Department to release tens of thousands of work-related emails that she sent from her personal email account when she was secretary of state.

FBI Director James B. Comey delivered an unusually candid speech Thursday about the difficult relationship between the police and African-Americans, saying that officers who work in neighborhoods where blacks commit crimes at higher rates than other minorities or whites develop a cynicism that shades their attitudes about race.

One of the two brothers suspected of killing 12 people at a satirical newspaper in Paris traveled to Yemen in 2011 and received terrorist training from al-Qaida’s affiliate there before returning to France, a senior U.S. official said Thursday.

Julia Pierson's resignation came less than a day after lawmakers from both parties assailed Pierson’s leadership and said they feared for the lives of the president and others in the protection of the agency.