Author: Michael

WASHINGTON — The FBI is offering a $200,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Monica Witt, a former U.S. Air Force counterintelligence specialist who defected to Iran in 2013 and faces espionage charges for allegedly sharing classified national defense information with the Iranian regime.
The bureau announced the reward on May 14, more than a decade after Witt’s defection and six years after her 2019 federal indictment in Washington, D.C.
Witt served in the U.S. Air Force from 1997 to 2008 and later worked as a government contractor until 2010.

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Thousands of sailors from the Ford Carrier Strike Group were awarded the Presidential Unit Citation today for their active role in the war with Iran, where they dealt with constant threat of enemy attack while carrying out or coordinating hundreds of strikes on Iranian targets.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth presented the Presidential Unit Citation to the crews in Norfolk, Virginia.

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American and Nigerian forces killed the Islamic State’s director of global operations in a Friday evening operation, U.S. African Command said.
The joint operation killed Abu-Bilal al-Minuki, according to President Donald Trump, who announced the mission and al-Minuki’s death in a social media post Friday night. Trump described al-Minuki as ISIS’s “second in command” globally. The strike was the largest U.S. operation in Nigeria since Christmas, when U.S. forces fired multiple missiles at militants in Nigeria’s northwestern Sokoto state.

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