AAMER MADHANI

A screenshot of an Iranian Shahed-129 combat drone. (YouTube/Future Technology of Military)

September 9, 2022, 1:07 am

US sanctions Iranian firms over drone sales to Russia for use in invasion of Ukraine

Treasury Department blacklists four companies in order to hold accountable Iran ‘and those supporting Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine’

By AAMER MADHANI

Russian President Vladimir Putin,(R) and North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un pose for a photo prior to their talks in Vladivostok, Russia, on April 25, 2019. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool)

September 6, 2022, 10:59 am

Russia turning to North Korea to buy rockets and artillery shells, US intel reveals

Official says Moscow’s decision reflects its growing pariah status and demonstrates supply difficulties faced by its military in Ukraine

By AAMER MADHANI

Former US President Donald Trump arrives for a campaign rally in support of Doug Mastriano for Governor of Pennsylvania and Mehmet Oz for US Senate at Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania on September 3, 2022. (Ed JONES / AFP)

September 4, 2022, 5:09 pm

Keeping America’s secrets: Trump’s unprecedented disregard of post-Watergate norms

Dramas over safeguarding US government documents have cropped up over the years, but FBI search of Mar-a-Lago has exposed indifference to rules on scale some thought inconceivable

By AAMER MADHANI

Osama bin Laden, right, listens as his top deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri speaks in this image made from undated video tape broadcast by Al-Jazeera on April 15, 2002. (AP Photo/Al-Jazeera/APTN)

August 2, 2022, 12:23 pm

Months of efforts to track al-Qaeda chief’s ‘pattern of life’ key to assassination

US officials built a scale model of the safe house where Ayman al-Zawahiri had been located, aiming a tailored airstrike at the home’s balcony where they learned he enjoyed sitting

By Zeke Miller and AAMER MADHANI

US President Joe Biden speaks from the Blue Room Balcony of the White House, August 1, 2022, in Washington, as he announces that a US airstrike killed al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in Afghanistan. (Jim Watson/Pool via AP)

August 2, 2022, 4:15 am

Biden hails killing of al-Qaeda head al-Zawahiri: ‘Justice has been delivered’

US president vows: ‘If you are a threat to our people, we will take you out’; says operation hopefully provides some closure for families of 9/11 victims

By Matthew Lee, NOMAAN MERCHANT and AAMER MADHANI

US President Joe Biden leaves after speaking to reporters about meetings with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the Waldorf Astoria Jeddah Qasr Al Sharq hotel, July 15, 2022, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

July 17, 2022, 5:14 am

Biden’s Saudi trip was uncomfortable, but worth it to improve ties with wary leaders

Panned for visiting country he vowed to make a ‘pariah,’ US president saw visit as necessary to repair alliances with Arab countries, potentially helping to counter Russia, China

By AAMER MADHANI, Aya Batrawy, Zeke Miller and CHRIS MEGERIAN

US President Joe Biden is helped by Secret Service agents after he fell trying to get off his bike to greet a crowd on a trail at Gordons Pond in Rehoboth Beach, Del., June 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

June 18, 2022, 6:54 pm

‘I’m good’: Biden unhurt after falling from bike

President takes a spill while riding with his wife at Cape Henlopen State Park near his beach home in Delaware, after getting foot caught in toe cages

By AAMER MADHANI

US President Joe Biden speaks at a change of command ceremony at US Coast Guard headquarters, June 1, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

June 3, 2022, 5:59 am

Biden decides to visit Saudi Arabia, turning back toward kingdom amid energy crisis

US president expected to meet Crown Prince Mohammed, who he once deemed a ‘pariah,’ during trip later this month that will include a stop in Israel

By AAMER MADHANI and Ellen Knickmeyer

US President Joe Biden listens as he meets virtually with infant formula manufacturers from the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex in Washington, June 1, 2022. (Susan Walsh/AP)

June 2, 2022, 1:07 pm

As gas prices soar, Biden mulls Saudi visit despite vow to shun crown prince

Strategic interests in oil and security pushing White House to rethink president’s stance, pledged during election, to make royal family ‘pariah’ over journalist’s death

By AAMER MADHANI and Ellen Knickmeyer

US President Joe Biden speaks during a news conference with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at Akasaka Palace, May 23, 2022, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

May 23, 2022, 11:05 am

Biden: US will intervene militarily if China invades Taiwan

US president compares potential actions to Russian invasion of Ukraine in light of Beijing’s increased military provocation against democratic island

By Josh Boak and AAMER MADHANI

The Russian missile cruiser Moskva is purportedly seen in photos depicting it after being hit by Ukrainian missiles, prior to sinking, April 14, 2022. (Social media)

May 6, 2022, 4:19 am

Official says US provided location intel that Ukraine used to sink Russian warship

US source stresses that Ukraine alone decided to target and sink flagship of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet using its own anti-ship missiles

By AAMER MADHANI, NOMAAN MERCHANT and Lolita C. Baldor

President Joe Biden, left, former president Barack Obama, former first lady Michelle Obama, former president Bill Clinton and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, during the funeral service for former secretary of state Madeleine Albright at the Washington National Cathedral, April 27, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

April 27, 2022, 11:08 pm

World leaders pay final respects to trailblazing diplomat Madeleine Albright

Former secretary of state, who died at 84 last month, remembered at Washington funeral ceremony by president as a ‘truly proud American who made all of us prouder to be American’

By Matthew Lee and AAMER MADHANI

Ukrainian servicemen study a Sweden shoulder-launched weapon system Carl Gustaf M4 during a training session on the near Kharkiv, Ukraine, on April 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Marienko, File)

April 21, 2022, 10:32 pm

Biden announces artillery, weapons for Ukraine after Russia claims Mariupol victory

$800 million package includes 144,000 rounds of ammunition and drones for escalating battle in Donbas and builds on roughly $2.6 billion in military aid already approved by US

By AAMER MADHANI, Robert Burns and DARLENE SUPERVILLE

US President Joe Biden speaks to the media at Fort Lesley J. McNair, on Monday, April 4, 2022, as he returns to Washington and the White House after spending the weekend in Wilmington, Delaware. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

April 5, 2022, 11:52 pm

US plans fresh sanctions on Russia, including ban on all new investments

New measures expected to be rolled out in coordination with other allies, as global outrage grows over killings, devastation in Kyiv suburb Bucha

By AAMER MADHANI and Josh Boak

A local resident walks past a destroyed Russian tank in Dmytrivka, west of Kyiv, undated (Genya SAVILOV / AFP)

April 3, 2022, 12:07 pm

Spies come in from the cold as intelligence goes unexpectedly public in Ukraine war

Officials say the stream of information – a strategy coordinated by the US with its allies – aims to make Putin question what he’s being told and show Russians they’ve been lied to

By Jill Lawless and AAMER MADHANI