Hegseth

Afghanistan International: US President-elect Donald Trump has named Fox News host and military veteran Pete Hegseth as his secretary of defence. Hegseth was deployed to Afghanistan with the US Army National Guard between 2011 and 2012 and spent 10 months at Camp Julien in Kabul. In 2019, during Donald Trump’s first presidency, he called on the president to pardon veterans accused of war crimes. Hegseth spoke about the soldiers’ cases and their families on his show on Fox News. Following Hegseth’s efforts, that same year, Donald Trump pardoned a former US Army commando who was to stand trial for killing an Afghan suspected bomber. Another US Army soldier who was convicted of ordering the shooting of three Afghans and killing two of them, was pardoned. Click here to read more (external link).