The leader of the Democrats in the US Senate has called for a “full investigation” after the White House confirmed that a journalist was included in a group chat in which US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth and other top officials discussed upcoming strikes against Yemen’s Houthi group.
US President Donald Trump announced strikes on 15 March, but in a shocking security breach, The Atlantic magazine’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg wrote that he had hours of advance notice via the group chat on Signal.
The US airstrikes killed 53 people and wounded 98 others, according to the health officials in Yemen.
“The message thread that was reported appears to be…