New Delhi, Oct. 17 -- US President Donald Trump's former aide and national security adviser John Bolton has been indicted on 18 federal counts, including eight for transmission and ten for retention of national defence information. The charges, unsealed by the U.S. Department of Justice, centre on the alleged mishandling of classified material during and after his tenure in the Trump administration.

A veteran of Republican administrations, John Robert Bolton served as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations under President George W. Bush and later became Donald Trump's National Security Adviser from April 2018 to September 2019. Known for his hawkish foreign-policy views, Bolton was a prominent advocate of a hard line against Iran and Nort...