GENERAL Lloyd Austin has become the first ever black US defence secretary after the senate confirmed his appointment today after granting him a waiver for not having retired for at least seven years before taking office.
Under the US constitution, military officers have to have retired for at least seven years before taking...
AMERICAN Navy Seals special forces killed six armed Fulani herdsmen in Sokoto State yesterday when they carried out a commando-style rescue operation to free the son of missionary Philip Walton who had been kidnapped in neighbouring Niger Republic.
In the first such operation of its kind, the US Air Force Special Operations...