According to a statement from his family, Ashton Carter passed away at the age of 68, as reported by the American “CNN” network.
The former minister experienced a “sudden heart episode” on Monday night in Boston, Massachusetts, the speaker continued.
Carter passed away while serving as the Beverire Center for International Science and Affairs’ director and a professor of public policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy College.
Between February 2015 through January 2017, when ISIS had taken over vast portions of Syria and Iraq, Carter assumed control of the defence portfolio in the cabinet of former US President Barack Obama.
During that war, Carter supervised the leadership of the international coalition, which included dozens of countries and visited a number of countries in the region in its framework, and focused a lot on Iraq, where he continued to work until the beginning of the liberation of Mosul from the grip of the terrorist organization.
No. 25 in the history of the United States’ defence ministers is Carter.
Death of US Defense Minister Ashton Carter, who oversaw the campaign against ISIS
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