Iran issued a warning on Sunday to the US over potentially targeting two cargo ships in the Middle East long suspected of serving as a forwarding operating base for Iranian commandos, just after the United States and the United Kingdom launched a massive air strike campaign against Yemen’s Houthi rebels. The statement from Iran on … Read more
A view of destruction after the US warplanes carried out an airstrike on the headquarters of Hashd al-Shaabi in Al-Qa’im city of Anbar, Iraq on February 03, 2024. Hashd al-Shaabi Media Office | Anadolu | Getty Images The United States launched airstrikes in Iraq and Syria against more than 85 targets linked to Iran’s Revolutionary … Read more
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin apologized for keeping his recent hospitalization hidden from the White House and the American people. “We did not handle this right. I did not handle this right,” he told reporters Thursday in his first news conference since his secret hospitalization and since the deadly drone attack in Jordan that killed three American soldiers. He … Read more
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin speaks during a press conference at the Pentagon in Washington, DC, on February 1, 2024. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds | AFP | Getty Images U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin publicly apologized Thursday for not telling President Joe Biden and the public about his prostate cancer diagnosis and his subsequent hospitalization. “We … Read more
The U.S. on Tuesday said it struck three sites used by Iranian-backed militia fighters in Iraq as part of a defensive response to repeated attacks on American forces in the Middle East. President Biden ordered strikes on three Iraqi facilities used by Iranian-backed militant groups, including Kataib Hezbollah. The statement did not say exactly where … Read more
By TARA COPP and LOLITA C. BALDOR (Associated Press) WASHINGTON — For the first time since Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin established the international group to support Ukraine in April 2022, the United States is hosting the monthly gathering of about 50 countries out of money, unable to send the ammunition and missiles that Ukraine needs … Read more
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin attends the start of the second round table during the Meeting of NATO Ministers of Defence in Brussels, on October 21, 2021. Kenzo Tribouillard | Afp | Getty Images Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was released from the hospital Monday, after spending two weeks there to treat complications from surgery for … Read more
US Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin testifies before a House Armed Services Committee hearing on the conclusion of military operations in Afghanistan at the Rayburn House Office building on Capitol Hill on September 29, 2021 in Washington, DC. Olivier Douliery | Afp | Getty Images Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is still hospitalized following doctors’ … Read more
By LOLITA C. BALDOR, TARA COPP, SEUNG MIN KIM and ZEKE MILLER (Associated Press) WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has prostate cancer, and his recent secretive hospitalization was for surgery and later to treat a urinary tract infection related to that operation, his doctors said Tuesday. The cancer revelation answers the main question … Read more
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin speaks during a meeting with Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles and British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace at the Pentagon in Washington, U.S., December 7, 2022. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has been hospitalized since Jan. 1 for complications following a surgery to treat prostate cancer, officials at … Read more
