美官员：白宫正在权衡夺取伊朗哈尔克岛计划

2026-03-20T23:42:36.000Z / 联合早报

知情者称，面积约为美国曼哈顿三分之一的哈尔克岛可以被迅速占领，这将成为美国迫使德黑兰解除霍尔木兹海峡封锁的关键筹码。 （法新社）

美国官员透露，白宫正向中东派遣数百名海军陆战队员，同时在权衡一项夺取伊朗石油出口枢纽哈尔克岛的计划。即便只是在伊朗部署少量的地面部队，对特朗普而言仍隐藏巨大风险。

彭博社报道，知情人士称，目前在特朗普的顾问中，支持采取有限地面行动的势头正在增强。面积约为美国曼哈顿三分之一的哈尔克岛可以被迅速占领，这将成为美国迫使德黑兰解除霍尔木兹海峡封锁的关键筹码。

曾为五角大楼和中央情报局提供咨询的鲁金斯学会智库的国防战略专家奥汉隆说：“诚然，此举具有战术优势，但也可能代价高昂，而且没有明确的战略目标。”

他指出，在中东部署一支海军陆战队远征部队将面临巨大的伤亡风险，而且缺乏明确的下一步，说明美国将如何真正加速伊朗的政权更迭，或促使伊朗愿意通过谈判结束敌对行动。

特朗普本周早些时候说，他不会在任何地方部署军队。但他已下令海军陆战队前往中东，拥有超过2000名士兵的日本第31海军陆战队远征部队也参与其列。

任何试图夺取并控制伊朗能源设施的行动，都将使美军面临更大的危险，并将使美以伊战争的规模和成本超出空袭行动的范畴。迄今为止，这场战争已造成13名美军士兵阵亡。

同样引人关注的还有美军登陆伊朗领土的象征意义，以及特朗普可能发动一场属于他自己的战争。特朗普之所以能在美国政坛迅速崛起，部分原因是他曾猛烈批评在他之前的美国总统发动无休止的海外战争。

在美国正向中东派遣数百名海军陆战队员，拟夺取伊朗哈尔克岛的消息传出之时，特朗普在社媒贴文说，他正在考虑“逐步降级”对伊朗的军事行动，称美国已接近实现目标。

他还谈到霍尔木兹海峡，说要把保护这条关键航道的工作交给其他国家。

Judge strikes down restrictive Pentagon press policy, finding it violates First Amendment

March 20, 2026 / 7:31 PM EDT / CBS News

A federal judge has struck down some of the Defense Department’s strict controls on how journalists with access to the Pentagon are allowed to report — ending a policy that caused many news outlets to leave the Pentagon.

U.S. District Judge Paul L. Friedman sided with the New York Times and a reporter at the newspaper, Julian E. Barnes, who sued in December, arguing the new Pentagon policy violated the First Amendment, Fifth Amendment and due process provision of the Constitution.

The Pentagon rolled out its new press access policy last fall, requiring credentialed reporters to sign onto a host of restrictions in order to maintain daily access to the building.

Many media organizations — including CBS News, ABC News, NBC News, CNN and Fox News — declined to sign the new rules and stopped working out of the Pentagon on a day-to-day basis. The Pentagon’s in-house press corps is now mostly made up of conservative media outlets that agreed to sign.

Friedman’s ruling halts some of the restrictions that news outlets objected the most strenuously to, including one section that suggested reporters who “solicit” classified or sensitive information from military personnel could be deemed a security risk and barred from the building. He also struck down a section that referred to Pentagon access as a “privilege” rather than a “right.”

Some sections were left in place, including restrictions on where reporters are allowed to go in the Pentagon without an escort.

In a social media post, Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said, “We disagree with the decision and are pursuing an immediate appeal.” The Justice Department did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

In a statement provided to CBS News Friday evening, the Pentagon Press Association said that it “celebrates the decision by a federal judge today that the Pentagon’s press credentialling policy violated the U.S. Constitution,” and called for the “immediate reinstatement of the credentials of all PPA members.”

The Pentagon has argued that it isn’t forcing reporters to clear their stories with the military, and is instead trying to protect national security by preventing leaks of highly sensitive information. The military also says it has tried to negotiate with news outlets. But many reporters who cover the military, and the Pentagon Press Association, argued the policy could effectively restrict journalists from interacting with sources without the government’s permission.

Friedman ordered the Pentagon to reinstate Barnes and several other Times reporters’ press passes, and vacated key parts of the policy. It’s not clear what the impact will be on other news outlets.

The judge said he “recognizes that national security must be protected, the security of our troops must be protected, and war plans must be protected.”

“But especially in light of the country’s recent incursion into Venezuela and its ongoing war with Iran, it is more important than ever that the public have access to information from a variety of perspectives about what its government is doing—so that the public can support government policies, if it wants to support them; protest, if it wants to protest; and decide based on full, complete, and open information who they are going to vote for in the next election,” he said.

Friedman found that the restrictions on “soliciting” information were so vague that it wasn’t clear what kinds of conduct did and didn’t violate the rules, so “one could easily predict that journalists would opt not to ask any questions rather than risk losing their [credential].”

He also argued that the policy violates the First Amendment by engaging in viewpoint discrimination, writing that it seeks to chill critical speech and “weed out disfavored journalists.”

The Pentagon has argued that its new policy isn’t aimed at punishing certain outlets or discriminating against views that it disagrees with, pointing to the military’s efforts to negotiate with news outlets.

Friedman pointed to instances of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and other top Pentagon officials criticizing news outlets in harsh terms. He said the evidence “tells the story of a Department whose leadership has been and continues to be openly hostile to the ‘mainstream media’ whose reporting it views as unfavorable,” and warmer to more supportive outlets.

And he pointed to the fact that right-wing influencer Laura Loomer was allowed access to the Pentagon despite setting up a “tip line,” even though a similar request for tips by The Washington Post was deemed inappropriate.

That issue was raised during a court hearing earlier this month, when Friedman grilled government lawyers on why Loomer’s tip line was permitted and the Post’s wasn’t

“Is the Washington Post tip line criminal solicitation?” Friedman asked.

“I don’t think so, your honor,” Justice Department attorney Michael Bruns responded.

“You’re not clear whether the Washington Post tip line constitutes criminal solicitation?” Friedman asked again.

“No, your honor,” Bruns said.

“So, if you’re not clear, how can they be clear?” Friedman retorted.

Bruns then told Friedman that The Washington Post tip line was problematic because it asked for information from military members, while Loomer’s is more general in nature.

In another tense exchange during that hearing, Friedman said he has lived through many military and national security conflicts, from the Vietnam War to the Sept. 11 attacks, and noted that through those events, the press played a vital role in helping the American public understand what its government was doing.

Regarding the Vietnam War, he said that “the public, I think it’s fair to say, was lied to about a lot of things,” and added, “A lot of things need to be held tightly and securely, but openness and transparency allow members of the public to know what their government is doing.”

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A federal judge on Friday voided various parts of a restrictive press policy rolled out by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last year, ruling that they trampled on the constitutional rights of reporters who seek to cover the US military from within its sprawling headquarters.

The ruling from senior US District Judge Paul Friedman is a major blow to Hegseth’s effort to exert greater control over press coverage and comes as reporting on the Defense Department has ramped up amid the war in Iran and the US operation earlier this year in Venezuela.

It voids several provisions of the new policy that enabled the Pentagon to suspend or revoke credentials based on reporting, but leaves in place other parts of the policy that had been in effect in earlier iterations and were not subject to the legal challenge.

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“A primary purpose of the First Amendment is to enable the press to publish what it will and the public to read what it chooses, free of any official proscription,” Friedman, an appointee of former President Bill Clinton, wrote in a scathing opinion.

“Those who drafted the First Amendment believed that the nation’s security requires a free press and an informed people and that such security is endangered by governmental suppression of political speech,” the judge added. “That principle has preserved the nation’s security for almost 250 years. It must not be abandoned now.”

The New York Times challenged the policy late last year, arguing it violates its First Amendment and due process rights.

The parts of the policy Friedman struck down required beat reporters to sign a pledge not to obtain or use unauthorized material. Scores of news organizations, including the Times and CNN, declined to agree, resulting in reporters being denied press badges that give them access to the Pentagon.

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Friedman ordered officials to reinstate the press badges of seven national security reporters at the Times who lost access to the Pentagon last year.

“The Court recognizes that national security must be protected, the security of our troops must be protected, and war plans must be protected,” Friedman wrote. “But especially in light of the country’s recent incursion into Venezuela and its ongoing war with Iran, it is more important than ever that the public have access to information from a variety of perspectives about what its government is doing – so that the public can support government policies, if it wants to support them; protest, if it wants to protest; and decide based on full, complete, and open information who they are going to vote for in the next election.”

CNN has reached out to the Defense Department and New York Times for comment.

“The district court’s decision is a powerful rejection of the Pentagon’s effort to impede freedom of the press and the reporting of vital information to the American people during a time of war,” First Amendment attorney Theodore Boutrous, who is representing The Times in the suit, told CNN.

Another ruling against Hegseth on First Amendment

Friedman became the second judge in recent weeks to conclude that Hegseth was playing fast and loose with First Amendment protections.

Last month, another judge who sits in the same courthouse said the secretary had run afoul of the free speech rights of a Democratic senator when he attempted to retaliate against the lawmaker over his urging of US service members to refuse illegal orders.

Friedman on Friday pointed to various statements by Hegseth and his aides that he said shows the department has been “openly hostile” to reporting from mainstream news organizations whose stories “it views as unfavorable, but receptive to outlets that have expressed ‘support for the Trump administration in the past.’”

“The undisputed evidence reflects the policy’s true purpose and practical effect: to weed out disfavored journalists – those who were not, in the department’s view, ‘on board and willing to serve,’ and replace them with news entities that are,” he wrote. “That is viewpoint discrimination, full stop.”

Friedman also agreed with the Times that the policy ran afoul of its due process rights because it was vague and therefore could be unintentionally violated by reporters seeking to comply with it.

“A primary way in which journalists obtain information is by asking questions,” he wrote. “Under the policy’s terms, then, essential journalistic practices that the plaintiffs and others engage in every day – such as asking questions of department employees – could trigger a determination by the department that a journalist poses a security or safety risk.”

Seth Stern, chief of advocacy at Freedom of the Press Foundation, said, “It’s unfortunate that it took this long for the Pentagon’s ridiculous policy to be thrown in the trash.”

“Especially now that we are spending money and blood on yet another war based on constantly shifting pretexts, journalists should double down on their commitment to finding out what the Pentagon does not want the public to know rather than parroting ‘authorized’ narratives,” Stern said in a statement.

This story has been updated with additional details.

CNN’s Brian Stelter contributed to this report.

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消息：五角大楼为可能在伊朗部署地面部队做好准备

发布时间：2026年3月21日 07:59 / 来源：联合早报

消息人士称，美国总统特朗普一直在考虑是否在伊朗部署地面部队，美国高级军事指挥官已提交旨在为此类方案做准备的具体请求。 （路透社）

有消息指，美国五角大楼官员已为可能在伊朗部署美军地面部队做好了准备。

美国哥伦比亚广播公司（CBS）星期五（3月20日）引述消息人士的话说，美国总统特朗普一直在考虑是否在伊朗部署地面部队，美国高级军事指挥官已提交旨在为此类方案做准备的具体请求。

美国军方还召开会议，为特朗普决定派遣美军地面部队参战制定应对预案，包括如何处理可能抓获的伊朗士兵等细节。

另据彭博社报道，知情人士透露，目前在特朗普的顾问中，支持采取有限地面行动的势头正在增强。面积约为美国曼哈顿三分之一的哈尔克岛可以被迅速占领，这将成为美国迫使德黑兰解除霍尔木兹海峡封锁的关键筹码。

白宫新闻秘书莱维特当天在一份声明中说：“五角大楼的职责是为三军统帅提供最大选择权，这并不意味着总统已经做出决定，正如总统昨天在椭圆形办公室所说，他目前不打算向任何地方派遣地面部队。”

特朗普20日在社媒贴文说，“我们距离实现目标越来越近了，正在考虑逐步降级针对伊朗的军事行动。”19日，他对媒体表明不会向伊朗派兵，但很快补充道：“如果我派兵，我肯定不会告诉你们。”

Trump administration temporarily lifts sanctions on Iranian oil at sea amid soaring prices

Updated on: March 20, 2026 / 7:34 PM EDT / CBS News

The U.S. Treasury has authorized the purchase of Iranian oil that’s already at sea, exempting buyers from the tight sanctions that have restricted the country’s oil industry for years — a move aimed at stemming soaring prices amid the U.S.’s war with Iran.

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The sanctions license allows oil from Iran to be purchased if it was loaded onto a ship by 12:01 a.m. ET on Friday. The authorization lasts until April 19.

The Trump administration had telegraphed the move this week. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in a Thursday morning Fox Business interview that

“American Nightmare” survivor Denise Huskins’ shocking new discovery exposes victim privacy loophole in California law

March 20, 2026 / 1:53 PM EDT / CBS News California

The failure to protect explicit case evidence in “American Nightmare” survivor Denise Huskins’ kidnapping and sexual assault case is driving reform at the California State Capitol. New developments in her case exposed a little-known gap in state law that could expose videos of sexual assault victims.

Huskins and her husband, Aaron Quinn, are preparing to testify on behalf of a victims’ privacy bill after discovering her kidnapper and his wife had been given copies of explicit case evidence during his trial. A decade after his conviction, his now ex-wife still had the evidence in her home.

Huskins’ kidnapping was the subject of one of Netflix’s most-watched true-crime docuseries, “American Nightmare.” In March 2015, Matthew Muller invaded Quinn’s Vallejo home, blindfolding and drugging the couple. He kidnapped, raped, and held Huskins for ransom in South Lake Tahoe for two days before releasing her.

Law enforcement officials then falsely accused Huskins of orchestrating her own kidnapping, a claim widely compared to the plot of the movie “Gone Girl.” Months later, after authorities arrested Muller for a separate attempted kidnapping, he pleaded guilty to kidnapping and sexually assaulting Huskins.

Exposing a legal loophole

Huskins and Quinn worked with law enforcement over the past year to help reopen and solve cold case crimes tied to her attacker.

It was during those investigations and subsequent confessions from Muller that they discovered a failure to protect explicit evidence in her case and potentially others.

According to investigators, and a decade after Muller’s conviction, his now ex-wife confirmed that they had been given explicit evidence of the sexual assaults as part of the legal discovery process — videotaped recordings of the assaults investigators say Muller made as he committed the crimes. Muller represented himself for a period, and his ex-wife said she was working as his legal assistant.

CBS News California has reached out to the district attorney, the public defender, and the court to understand how Muller ended up with the explicit evidence and why his ex-wife wasn’t asked to return it for more than a decade.

The Solano County District Attorney’s Office pointed to a protective order governing the videos, signed by the Deputy District Attorney who prosecuted the case and Muller’s defense attorney, Deputy Public Defender Stephanie Grogan-Jones, who is now a Solano County judge.

The order specified, “While the defendant may review the materials in the presence of counsel, under no circumstances shall the defendant be given copies of any part of these materials to keep, nor shall the defendant be left alone with these materials.”

The protective order also required that the materials, and any copies, “be returned to the Court for destruction within thirty (30) days of the conclusion of this case.”

Investigators now say that did not happen.

“Part of videoing it is his ability to continue to exploit and re-victimize me over and over again every time he viewed it,” Huskins explained.

The discovery was deeply disturbing for Huskins, not just because of the failure to protect the evidence in her case, but because it exposed a breakdown in state law and in how court-ordered safeguards were carried out.

“It’s unnecessary and, quite frankly, it feels cruel,” Huskins said.

CBS News California is still awaiting responses from prosecutors, the public defender who handled the case — now a Solano County judge — and the Solano County court about who was responsible for safeguarding the evidence, how the protective order was implemented, and whether it was ultimately enforced.

A gap in California law

California law already requires courts to seal sexually explicit evidence involving children, but protections are far less clear for adult victims.

“There isn’t a law,” said Sacramento County Deputy District Attorney Sonja Satchell, who has a long career prosecuting sex crimes. “We are governed by best practices… and those practices can vary from county to county. There is no uniformity.”

Even in cases where protective orders are issued, there is no consistent system to track or verify compliance once a case ends.

That means decisions about how to handle explicit evidence involving adult victims are often left to individual prosecutors or the courts without consistent statewide standards.

To learn that there wasn’t more care, more guidelines and restrictions, was just another insult to injury,” Huskins said. “In this digital age, it just seems like common sense to make sure that any kind of video footage or any kind discovery that included sensitive material around sexual assault, that there would be stricter protocols and guidelines around it.”

The push for reform: SB 1056

Huskins and Quinn are now working with lawmakers to set those guidelines.

They are backing Senate Bill 1056, authored by Senator Tim Grayson, which would require courts to issue protective orders governing sexually explicit evidence involving victims of any age, and limit how that material can be copied, shared, or accessed.

Grayson’s bill would shift responsibility from prosecutors to the courts, creating a uniform standard across California. It would also prohibit attorneys from providing copies of that material directly to defendants or others without court approval and a showing of good cause, while still allowing access for legal preparation under strict court-ordered conditions.

“If survivors don’t feel like they’re going to be safe and protected, they are not going to come forward,” Huskins said.

The bill comes as new scrutiny is placed not just on the lack of statewide standards, but on whether existing court orders are being followed and enforced.

From survivor to advocate

The effort represents the next chapter in Huskins and Quinn’s journey, which began with trauma and is evolving into advocacy.

They are expected to testify before the California State Senate Public Safety Committee as lawmakers consider the bill on March 24.

CBS News California accompanied them to the State Capitol, where they had the chance to visit the hearing room that they’ll be testifying in. Huskins described the moment as both surreal and meaningful.

“It’s healing to know that we have a voice… and we can use it,” she said.

A broader impact

The couple says the goal is simple: ensure no other survivor has to worry that evidence of their assault could resurface years later, outside their control, re-victimizing them as it did Huskins.

“We’ve met so many people who are already doing amazing work,” Huskins said.” “So if we could just help in any way, it’s a huge honor and it’s worth every second .”

Their case, once dismissed as a hoax, is now exposing gaps in both the law and the system meant to enforce it — and driving changes that could better protect victims moving forward.

The Trump administration is seeking to recover billions of dollars in federal funding from Harvard University in a sweeping 44-page lawsuit

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The Trump administration filed a lawsuit Friday against Harvard University, alleging that it failed to protect Jewish and Israeli students by essentially enabling antisemitism on campus in the wake of the Oct. 7, 2023, attack against Israel by Hamas.

The 44-page lawsuit, filed in Massachusetts, is the latest in an ongoing battle between the White House and the Ivy League school. The complaint alleges that Harvard has tolerated antisemitic mobs comprised of students, faculty members and visitors opposed to Israel and has acted with indifference by selectively enforcing its campus rules to permit the continuation of the harassment.

“Harvard University has failed to protect its Jewish students from harassment and has allowed discrimination to wreak havoc on its campus,” a White House spokesperson told Fox News. “President Trump is committed to ensuring every student can pursue their academic goals in a safe environment.”

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The Trump administration is seeking to recover billions of taxpayer dollars from Harvard University in a new lawsuit against the elite institution.(Getty Images)

The administration is seeking to recover billions of taxpayer dollars given to the elite university by federal agencies.

“Since October 7, 2023, too many of our educational institutions have allowed antisemitism to flourish on campus – Harvard included,” said Attorney General Pam Bondi. “Today’s litigation underscores the Trump administration’s commitment to demanding better from our nation’s schools and putting an end to discriminatory behavior that harms students.”

In a statement to Fox News Digital, a Harvard spokesperson said the university “cares deeply” about its Jewish and Israeli students and remains committed to making sure they are embraced and respected.

The Harvard Crimson sports crest on banners at the Harvard University Athletics Complex in Boston, Massachusetts, on Tuesday, May 27, 2025.(Sophie Park/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

“Our actions illustrate this. Harvard has taken substantive, proactive steps to address the root causes of antisemitism and actively enforces anti-harassment and anti-discrimination rules and policies on campus,” the statement said.”We also have enhanced training and education on antisemitism for students, faculty, and staff and launched programs to promote civil dialogue and respectful disagreement inside and outside the classroom. Harvard’s efforts demonstrate the very opposite of deliberate indifference.”

The school said it will continue to prioritize such work and defend itself, calling the lawsuit “yet another pretextual and retaliatory action by the administration for refusing to turn over control of Harvard to the federal government.”

Friday’s lawsuit is another in the protracted battle between Havard and President Donald Trump. In June, the administration said a civil rights investigation had led to a formal finding that Harvard tolerated antisemitism.

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Anti-Israel demonstrators gather with Palestinian flags at Harvard University for a rally in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Oct. 14, 2023.(Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images)

“Harvard remained deliberately indifferent to a level of hostility on its campus so well-known across the nation that members of Congress were writing about it,” government lawyers wrote. “Harvard also intentionally refused to enforce its campus rules — rules it enforced against others — when the victims were Jews or Israelis. This sent the clear message to Harvard’s Jewish and Israeli community that the indifference was not an accident; they were being intentionally excluded and effectively denied equal access to educational opportunities.”

Last year, the school sued the Trump administration over the freezing of federal funds. A judge blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to freeze Harvard’s federal funds.

The Internal Revenue Service was also considering stripping Harvard of its tax-exempt status.

Harvard is slated to receive more than $2.6 billion from the Department of Health and Human Services, the Justice Department said.

In February, the Trump administration said it was seeking to recover $1 billion in damages from Harvard, the main target in its attempt to leverage federal funding in order to crack down on antisemitism on college campuses.

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HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. said institutions that take taxpayer funds are obligated to protect civil rights.

“We hold Harvard accountable on the principle that antisemitism has no place in any program funded by the American people,” he said.

Louis Casiano is a reporter for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to louis.casiano@fox.com.

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TSA absences remain steady Thursday as shutdown continues

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March 20, 2026 5:24 PM UTC Updated 2 hours ago

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WASHINGTON, March 20 (Reuters) – Absences among Transportation Security Administration ​airport security officers ‌fell slightly on Thursday to 9.8% nationwide ​but was much ​higher at some major ⁠airports, the government ​said on Friday.

The absenteeism ​rate among the 50,000 TSA officers fell from ​10.2% on Wednesday ​but was significantly higher at ‌major ⁠airports on Thursday including 29% at New York’s JFK, ​27% at ​New ⁠Orleans, Baltimore Washington at 23%, ​32% at Atlanta ​and ⁠over 30% at both Houston airports, ⁠the ​Homeland Security ​Department said.

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NATO pulls several hundred personnel from Iraq amid Iran war – CBS News

March 20, 2026 / 12:51 PM EDT / CBS News

NATO has pulled several hundred personnel out of Iraq as the Iran war rages on, the alliance said in a statement Friday.

The last of the personnel from the group, known as NATO Mission Iraq, left Iraq on Friday, the alliance said. The personnel come from NATO allies as well as from partner countries Austria and Australia. The withdrawal follows attacks from Iran on British, French and Italian bases in Iraq.

The noncombat mission was created in 2018 at the request of Iraqi authorities to help the country as officials sought to bolster its security forces and fight against terrorism. NATO personnel trained members of Iraq’s security forces but weren’t deployed with them during combat operations, according to the alliance.

U.S. Air Force Gen. Alexus Grynkewich, the commander of NATO’s forces in Europe, thanked Iraq and allies for assisting in the relocation.

“I would also like to thank the dedicated men and women of NATO Mission Iraq, who continued their mission throughout this period. They are true professionals,” Grynkewich said in a statement Friday.

The announcement comes as the alliance faces criticism from President Trump, who called NATO “A PAPER TIGER” and “COWARDS” Friday as he seeks military assistance in securing the Strait of Hormuz, the waterway that’s vital for transporting oil from the Persian Gulf.

“They didn’t want to join the fight to stop a Nuclear Powered Iran,” Mr. Trump said on his Truth Social platform. “Now that fight is Militarily WON, with very little danger for them, they complain about the high oil prices they are forced to pay, but don’t want to help open the Strait of Hormuz, a simple military maneuver that is the single reason for the high oil prices.”

Mexican president condemns deaths of citizens in U.S. custody: “This can’t be happening”

March 20, 2026 / 1:00 PM EDT / CBS/AFP

Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum on Friday condemned the deaths of three Mexican nationals after they were taken into custody by U.S. immigration authorities this year.

“This can’t be happening,” Sheinbaum told reporters, referring to the death of a 19-year-old at a detention center in Florida on Monday and two others who died earlier this year.

“The report says the young man killed himself,” Sheinbaum said. “Nonetheless, we want a full investigation.”

Royer Perez Jimenez was arrested in January and charged with fraud for impersonation and misdemeanor resisting an officer, ICE said in a statement reported by CBS Miami.

He was found in his cell at the Glades County Detention Center at 2:34 a.m. local time on March 16, CBS Miami reported. Prison staff “immediately” began life-saving efforts, the agency said. The cause of death was “presumed suicide” but remains under investigation, ICE said.

Other Mexicans who died while caught in President Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration include Heber Sanchez Domínguez, 34, in January. Domínguez was in ICE custody for six days after being arrested for driving without a license, and was awaiting a hearing when he was found “hanging by the neck and unresponsive in his sleeping quarters” at a Georgia facility at about 2:05 a.m. local time, DHS said at the time. A 48-year-old Mexican man died in ICE custody in March.

The Mexican government said Thursday that “these deaths are becoming unacceptable” and that officials “won’t hold back in using available legal and diplomatic tools to defend the rights” of Mexicans abroad.

“We’re going to use all measures to make our protests and support the family in everything they need,” Sheinbaum said.

At least 30 migrants died in US detention centers last year, the highest number since 2004, a year after the creation of ICE. There have been at least 12 deaths so far this year, including that of an Afghan man who served with the U.S. military, a Haitian man whose family said his untreated toothache became a deadly infection, and a Cuban immigrant whose death in a Texas facility has been ruled a homicide.

Mr. Trump has promised the most extensive deportation program for undocumented migrants in U.S. history and ICE has been at the forefront of often violent raids across U.S. cities.

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