The Latest Breaking News from CIA

All White House staff can no longer use WhatsApp as the US government has officially banned it. The latest memo urges them to use other apps.

The FBI has added alleged Tren de Aragua leader Giovanni Vicente Mosquera Serrano to its most wanted list and is offering a $3 million reward for information leading to his arrest or conviction

Dan Pfeiffer says it is ‘really unforgivable’ and ‘insane’ that the Democratic party establishment maintains support for disgraced former New York governor

The conflict with Iran is the latest in a decadeslong series of regime change operations, long-term entanglements, and all-out wars that always seem to invite more problems.

COMMENT: With Donald Trump apparently warming to the idea of overthrowing Iran’s theocratic rulers, history reminds us that whenever the White House upturns an unsatisfactory regime, from Fidel Castro to Saddam Hussein, it contrives only to make matters worse, says Sean O’Grady

This is a war of choice, based on misinformation. If the US and UK join it, they risk a rerun of the Iraq debacle of 2003, says Fawaz Gerges of the LSE

A veteran CIA analyst says Israel's attack on Iran was unjustified and that America should not support its war on the latest Just Asking Questions episode.

President reportedly angered by intelligence chief’s social media warning against ‘warmongers’ placing the world ‘on the brink of nuclear annihilation’

In Gaza and Africa, U.S. contracting firms led by former American intelligence and military officers are taking on aid delivery in conflict zones

Relations between the United States and Iran have been fraught for decades – at least since the U.S. helped overthrow a democracy-minded prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh, in August 1953. The U.S. then supported the long, repressive reign of the Shah of Iran, whose security services brutalized Iranian citizens for decades.

Five years in hell.