Tag: Avril Haines
Senate confirms Lloyd Austin as US secretary of defense, Haines to intelligence
The U.S. Senate confirmed Lloyd Austin on Friday as U.S. secretary of defense.
Austin, a general who retired in 2016 and needed a congressional waiver due to a law that requires retired military personnel to...
Biden nominees stress that US will not be rejoining Iran nuclear deal anytime soon
Several nominees for U.S. President-elect Joe Biden’s national security team acknowledged on Tuesday that the United States isn’t ready to rejoin the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of...