David Sanger

Cyber-specialists confirm that that the Democratic national committee was breached by two Russian intelligence agencies, potentially implicating President Vladimir Putin.

After the U.S. lifted a decades-old arms embargo on Vietnam, one newspaper controlled by the Chinese government warned that the U.S. and Vietnam must not spark a "regional tinderbox."

On Sunday, North Korea reported that they had successfully launched a rocket into space, something that's triggering new U.N. sanctions and criticism from the international community.

North Korea claims to have successfully detonated a hydrogen bomb off the country's northeast coast, but many doubt the claims. 

The New York Times' David Sanger says President Obama successfully argued that putting U.S. troops in Syria will be counterproductive to fighting ISIS, but failed to offer alternatives.

President Obama has been criticized for his "unaggressive" tone in his initial address after the Paris attacks. We take a closer look at what he's trying to accomplish diplomatically.

The New York Times' David Sanger rounds up the news from all the face-to-face meetings and speeches around the UN General Assembly.

The papal visit this week, combined with the U.N. General Assembly, will bring a high concentration of powerful leaders to New York City. Consider this Fashion Week for Politics.

A sticking point for a final Iranian nuclear deal is the use of high-tech equipment to monitor the nuclear program, which Tehran fears could be used for espionage.

Today's deadline for a nuclear deal with Iran still has some negotiators questioning how to move forward on the preliminary agreement reached two months ago.

Congress is running out of time to save two sections of the Patriot Act. On Monday, unless the Senate acts, the NSA may not be able to collect data in bulk. 

The latest updates on the Iran nuclear negotiations, scheduled to end on Wednesday.

Some US officials are using the word "daesh" to refer to ISIS because it separates the group from a claim on Islam (and because they hate it). Muslim listeners weighed in on the name.

The report, which includes several disturbing findings, finds that "the interrogations of CIA detainees were brutal and far worse than the CIA represented to policymakers and others."

The New York Times' David Sanger has new details about the secretive talks that led to the release of two American prisoners, Kenneth Bae and Matthew Todd Miller, held in North Korea.

Maybe there was a coup. Maybe he has gout from eating too many cheeseburgers. We're not sure. But the head of North Korea hasn't been seen in public in five weeks, and rumors are flying.

During the Cold War, there was predictability to the chess board. But even Obama Administration officials say the crisis in Ukraine, and especially ISIS, seemingly came out of nowhere. 

President Obama said he "doesn't have a strategy yet" when it comes to intervening in Syria. New York Times correspondent David Sanger discusses what we know about what comes next.

David Sanger, national security correspondent for The New York Times and author of Confront and Conceal: Obama's Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power (Broadway, 2013), talks about developments in Russia and Ukraine, violence in Gaza, and nuclear talks on Iran. Plus Max Seddon, Buzzfeed foreign affairs reporter based in Russia, joins from Ukraine with the latest on the downed airliner and the geopolitical implications.

The plane with nearly 300 people on board was shot down over eastern Ukraine — but who fired the missile? And was it a mistake, as everyone has assumed?