← July 13, 2026 briefingPolitics
Senator Lindsey Graham dies aged 71
US Senator Lindsey Graham, one of Washington's most prominent foreign policy hawks and a central architect of American support for Israel and Ukraine, has died at 71. Graham's death removes a towering and often polarising figure from the Senate at a moment of acute US foreign policy tension, with tributes arriving swiftly from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ukrainian officials. Israel's national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir was among the first to publicly mourn him.






