Ken Dilanian
Ken Dilanian was a reporter in the Los Angeles Times’ Washington, D.C., bureau from April 2010 until May 2014. Before that, he had spent three years at USA Today, where he covered foreign policy and Congress. He worked for a decade at the Philadelphia Inquirer, three of them as a Rome-based foreign correspondent making frequent trips to Iraq. A series he co-wrote on deaths in Philadelphia’s child welfare system won the 2007 Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism. A Massachusetts native, he is a 1991 graduate of Williams College.
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Former national security advisor Sandy Berger, who helped craft President Clinton’s foreign policy and got in trouble over destroying classified documents, died Wednesday.
Dec. 2, 2015
Scrambling to address a growing Syrian refugee crisis, U.S.
Sept. 20, 2015
Soon after a U.S. military drone killed about a dozen people on a remote road in central Yemen on Dec. 12, a disturbing narrative emerged.
May 11, 2014
Yemen says 55 militants and at least three civilians were killed in raids and U.S. drone strikes over the weekend.
April 21, 2014
WASHINGTON — Prompted in part by a recent video that showed Al Qaeda leaders in Yemen openly taunting the United States, the CIA launched lethal drone strikes over the last three days that marked a sharp acceleration of the Obama administration’s shadow war against the terrorist group.
April 21, 2014
U.S. launches drone strikes against Al Qaeda targets in Yemen
April 21, 2014
WASHINGTON — President Obama signed into law a bill Friday that will block Iran’s new ambassador to the United Nations from entering the United States.
April 18, 2014
Those who have read the classified document say it’s a scathing indictment of the agency and its treatment of Al Qaeda detainees.
April 11, 2014
A terrorism defendant challenges the law allowing warrantless foreign surveillance.
April 7, 2014