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Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin will travel to Europe to meet with U.S. allies as tensions increase over Russia’s decision to move 28,000 troops to the Ukraine border, the Pentagon announced Thursday. The top defense official on Saturday will meet with government and military counterparts in Germany, the United Kingdom, and at the NATO headquarters in Belgium before traveling to Israel. Austin will address "the importance of international defense relationships, and reinforce the United States’ commitment t...

Overnight Defense: US reportedly considering sending warships to Black Sea to support Ukraine | Intel community warns of fragile future | Austin traveling to Israel, Europe Rebecca Kheel © The Hill Overnight Defense: US reportedly considering sending warships to Black Sea to support Ukraine | Intel community warns of fragile future | Austin traveling to Israel, Europe Happy Thursday and welcome to Overnight Defense. I'm Rebecca Kheel, and here's your nightly guide to the latest developments at the Pentagon, on Capitol Hill and beyond. CLICK HERE to subscribe to the newslett...

File Photo: US defence secretary Lloyd Austin WASHINGTON: US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin will visit Germany next week as part of a foreign tour that will also take him to Israel, the UK and the NATO headquarters in Belgium. Austin will be the first of US president Joe Biden's cabinet to travel to Germany, reports DPA news agency. He will meet defence minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer and foreign and security policy adviser Jan Hecker, the Pentagon said in a statement on Thursday. The talks aim to "reinforce the value the US places on the bilateral defense relationship with one of our c...

While the U.S. withdrew from the deal under former President Trump in 2018, Iran has since pulled out by ratcheting up its nuclear enrichment and ballistic missile activities banned by U.N. Security Council resolutions. With The Associated Press reporting little progress in the Vienna talks so far, concerns have swirled that clandestine clashes between Iran and Israel — Washington’s closest ally in the Middle East — could derail the process. In addition to reports that Israeli airstrikes have pounded Iran-backed Hezbollah targets in Syria, including hitting an arms depot maintained by t...

By Rebecca Kheel - 04/08/21 07:06 PM EDT   Happy Thursday and welcome to Overnight Defense. I'm Rebecca Kheel, and here's your nightly guide to the latest developments at the Pentagon, on Capitol Hill and beyond. CLICK HERE to subscribe to the newsletter. THE TOPLINE: The United States reportedly could be sending Navy warships into the Black Sea within the next few weeks as a show of support for Ukraine. The Navy routinely sails its ships through the Black Sea, which touches nearly all of Ukraine’s southern border. But a defense official told CNN on Thursday that the Pentagon is cons...