Новости за 04.04.2016

From Moscow to Reykjavik to Buenos Aires and beyond, the same two words are suddenly reverberating in financial circles: offshore accounts.

Syrian troops fired their guns in celebration amid smoldering buildings inside the town of Qaryatain on Monday, hours after recapturing it from retreating Islamic State militants who had abducted and terrorized dozens of its Christian residents.

Syrian troops fired their guns in celebration amid smoldering buildings inside the town of Qaryatain on Monday, hours after recapturing it from retreating Islamic State militants who had abducted and terrorized dozens of its Christian residents.

The Obama administration is making the case that Iran is drawing down its elite fighting force from Syria in an effort to allay fears that Tehran is using its powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Syria to strengthen its influence across the Middle East. Yet the Iranian government said Monday it has dispatched commandos to the war and it is still taking high-ranking casualties.

About six weeks ago I joined Stars and Stripes as its new ombudsman. That means I’m a sort of outside investigator, both a reader’s advocate and an inspector general of sorts, one with a particular mission to protect Stripes’ press freedoms and to ensure it delivers a fair and balanced product.

Mossack Fonseca, which is based in Panama but has offices around the world, has worked with at least 33 individuals or companies that have landed on the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control list.

Iraqi forces have entered the town of Hit, a week after launching an operation to retake the western town from Islamic State group fighters, commanders at the scene said Monday.

Hackers have posted a database online that allegedly contains the personal information of nearly 50 million Turkish citizens in what is one of the largest public leaks of this scale.

Fort Ord, from its opening in 1917 to its closure in 1994, had been one of the Army’s largest and most important posts.

World War II was high adventure for Henry Klein. He was a 17-year-old sailor who had learned how to cook at Luby’s Cafeteria in downtown Lubbock, and he was tall. He remembers that he was, in fact, the biggest sailor on LST 803.

The Panamanian lawyers at the center of a scandal on the financial dealings of the world's rich and famous are an odd pairing of a German-born immigrant and a prize-winning novelist whose books sometimes mirror the seedy world of politics he's come across in his work.

The little soldiers on Widow Tapp Field in Spotsylvania carried wooden guns, but their exuberance provided plenty of firepower.

Both the Confederate and Union actors strived to recreate an authentic historical account and present it to the public not only through battle scenes, but through clothing, food prep and period wound care.

“It’s not about politics or anything like that. It’s about history and bringing it to the public, honoring the people that fought, the men and women who participated — telling their stories,” said Ron Boyce, commanding officer of the Pawnee Guard and a former U.S. Marine.

In a brief memoir of sorts, Walla Wallan Gerald Hixson, 91, jotted down bits of his personal experiences for posterity. One such event would remind him of friends he made during his military service in England during World War II.

To be a member of the U.S. military is to be part of something larger than yourself, Julie Radford says. And that’s what she wanted. But at 175 pounds, she was too heavy for the Army.

A Singapore man accused of illegally exporting technology to Iran that was later found in improvised explosive devices has been extradited to the United States to face charges.

The Pentagon on Monday sent two Libyans linked to al-Qaida from Guantanamo Bay to West Africa, leaving the controversial U.S. detention facility in Cuba with 89 detainees.

President Barack Obama on Monday called NATO "the linchpin" of U.S. security policy and a critical ally in the fight against terrorism, indirectly countering Republican Donald Trump's recent claims that the 67-year-old alliance is obsolete.

Drone delivery might be years away in the U.S., but it's becoming a reality in Rwanda this summer. A San Francisco-based drone delivery company says it'll start making its first deliveries of blood and medicine in Rwanda in July.

Woodrow Wilson's name will remain on Princeton University's public policy school, despite calls to remove it because the former U.S. president was a segregationist, the Ivy League university announced Monday.

More than 30 countries from six continents are participating in a maritime mine countermeasures exercise that began Monday.

The USO will permanently close its lounge and reception area at Frankfurt Airport later this month after nearly 41 years in operation, citing dwindling visitor numbers and the changing security environment in Europe.

Afghan forces are changing tactics in northern Afghanistan, drawing lessons from their failure last year to keep Taliban insurgents from overrunning the city of Kunduz, Afghan and U.S. military officials said.

Federal authorities say a Massachusetts man accused of putting pipe bomb-like devices on high-voltage power lines left a note threatening to attack other utilities and to publish instructions on how to make similar devices on the Internet.