Esper

US President Donald Trump has fired his defense secretary, Mark Esper, amid political chaos gripping his administration after his refusal to concede the election defeat. Trump said in a tweet on Monday that Esper had been “terminated”…

Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Saturday that the United States will go down to below 5,000 troops in Afghanistan by the end of November. “We are going down to a number less than 5,000 before the end of November,” Esper said in an…