Free Beacon Bill Gertz

Bill Gertz was senior editor of the Washington Free Beacon.


ISIL Leader Appears in Mosul, Calls for Imposition of Islamic Law

Self-declared ‘Caliph’ Baghdadi mosque appearance said to counter claims he was wounded

Chinese students learn computer skills in a computer room at Lanxiang Vocational School

Chinese Military Creates High-Level Cyber Intelligence Center

Strategic cyber intelligence group within Communist Party’s all-powerful military organ revealed

Iraqi ‘Caliph’ on U.S. Kill List

Shadowy Baghdadi issues first statement since January urging global terror attacks

People inspect buildings damaged by an Iraqi government airstrike on the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant controlled city of Mosul

CIA Under Fire for Failure in Iraq

Critics say agency did not provide adequate warning of Islamic State attack

al Qaeda

Official Al Qaeda Rebel Unit in Syria Joins ISIL

Merger a sign ultra-violent wing of al Qaeda gaining strength

China's Harbin (112) guided missile destroyer takes part in the week-long China-Russia "Joint Sea-2014" exercise at the East China Sea off Shanghai in May 2014

Spying Concerns, Regional Belligerence Cloud Chinese Role in Pacific Naval Exercises

Four Chinese warships are largest foreign contingent in Rim of the Pacific maneuvers

Russia Test Fires Six New Air-Launched Cruise Missiles

Putin orders military exercises amid new Ukraine tensions

Igor Vsevolodovich Girkin

Ukrainian Rebel Commander Identified As Russian GRU Military Intelligence Colonel

Key figure in covert Russian subversion campaign in eastern Ukraine

U.S. Opposes New Draft Treaty from China and Russia Banning Space Weapons

Arms control pact sought as Beijing, Moscow secretly build anti-satellite, space arms