Новости за 02.01.2016

Brig. Gen. Ahmed al-Belawi said Saturday that the militants stuck security forces the day before with seven suicide car bombs in two areas on the city's outskirts.

Saudi Arabia announced on Saturday it had executed 47 prisoners convicted of terrorism charges, including al-Qaida detainees and a prominent Shiite cleric who rallied protests against the government.

The push by France's Socialist government to revoke the citizenship of convicted terrorists with dual nationality after the Paris attacks has turned into a harsh political dispute, with the far right applauding the move while some on the left express indignation at what they call a divisive measure.

Some military couples say that the the military forces people to grow up fast — especially when it comes to marriage.

Tens of thousands of people attended funerals in the West Bank on Saturday for Palestinians killed in violence over the past few months during a period of near-daily Palestinian attacks against Israeli civilians and soldiers.

Israeli police continued their manhunt Saturday for a gunman who killed two people and wounded several others when he opened fire at a bar in Tel Aviv the day before.

In ushering a group of elderly people around, even those who survived the horrors of World War II, life's little indignities are bound to surface. After landing at Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C., for one of the group's tours honoring military veterans, Bob Myer, president of Honor Flight Northeast Indiana, was approached by a woman accompanying her father who needed help in the restroom changing his pants.

Syrian refugees seeking asylum in Toledo are finding the process long and difficult to navigate. Those trying to bring family members still stuck in a war zone to the city face roadblocks including backlogged systems, closed embassies and families with mixed immigration status.

It's a headache that no one at the International Species Information System could have predicted. The company is known across the globe as ISIS. Its website? Isis.org. A name once associated with an ancient Egyptian goddess now has become synonymous with terror.

Paris city will commemorate the victims of the attacks on the satirical Charlie Hebdo newspaper and a kosher supermarket that left 17 people dead in January last year.

The worst of the dangerous, deadly winter flood is over in the St. Louis area, leaving residents of several water-logged communities to assess damage, clean up and figure out how to bounce back — or in some cases, where to live.

Ukraine says it will introduce a wide-ranging ban on food imports from Russia in a week, a response to Russia's ban on food products from Ukraine.

Not since the early years of Fidel Castro's rule, when his leftist ideals brought home a number of exiles initially sympathetic to the 1959 revolution, have so many Cubans voluntarily returned.

A French prosecutor says investigators see no links between a man who rammed his car into four soldiers guarding a mosque in the southeastern city of Valence and "a terrorist network or terrorist act."

In October 1944, near the end of the war, World War II veteran George Hanselman was drafted into the Army, three weeks shy of 24. "It's amazing what I saw in that short length of time," he said. "I saw what war was all about."

The head of an official British investigation into alleged abuses during the Iraq War says that U.K. soldiers may face prosecution for crimes including murder.

Al-Qaida's East African affiliate has released a video to recruit American blacks and Muslims that includes a clip of presidential candidate Donald Trump calling for Muslims to be banned from entering the United States.

The 40th Combat Aviation Brigade, headquartered in Fresno, took over aviation operations in the U.S. Army Central’s area of responsibility on Dec. 20 at Camp Buehring, a staging post in Kuwait.

For years, Sharon Schell tried to get her father to talk about his experiences in World War II. About 25 years ago and at her urging, Charles F. Remington spilled out details of his Army service and the Battle of the Bulge on 30 typewritten pages.

Saudi Arabia announced on Saturday it had executed 47 prisoners convicted of terrorism charges, including al-Qaida detainees and a prominent Shiite cleric who rallied protests against the government.

Suspected militants entered an Indian air force base near the border with Pakistan on Saturday and exchanged fire with security forces for hours, leaving at least four gunmen and two Indian troops dead, officials and news reports said.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., has asked the Department of Veterans Affairs’ watchdog agency to investigate the recent death of veteran Zachary Greenough, who was an inpatient at the VA’s West Haven Medical Center when, according to allegations, he may have overdosed on illegal drugs obtained while in the hospital.

A Somali police officer says a suicide bomber killed himself and one civilian in a bombing of a restaurant in the Somali capital, Mogadishu.

The death of a man whose plane clipped one building before smashing into another in the heart of downtown Anchorage was a suicide, a spokeswoman for his family said.

More than 1 million people arrived by sea during the year, according to estimates by the United Nations refugee agency, one of the biggest migration waves to hit the continent since the end of World War II. The crisis has exposed deep rifts among the European Union’s 28 members.