Новости за 14.05.2016

U.S. Rep. Mike Bost, R-Ill., is calling on the Inspector General of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to conduct an independent investigation into the site selection process for the new National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency West campus.

Members of Congress are moving forward on attempts to protect the training of Fort Bragg paratroopers, even as Air Force leaders say they are on track to increase their support to Fort Bragg when compared with last year.

More than a dozen suicide bombers attacked a residential and government complex outside Baghdad on Saturday, killing at least six people, an official said.

The “forgotten war” was front and center Friday at the National Infantry Museum as veterans who fought in Korea shared their experiences and the general officer who most recently commanded United States troops there shared his views during a symposium attended by more than 300 soldiers and civilians. “It’s almost like a cult,” he said of North Korea.

Stuttgart pitcher Leah Fries posted 16 strikeouts in the Panthers' early win.

Just two weeks before the nation commemorates Memorial Day, the Florida chapter of the 173rd Brigade Association dedicated a new memorial to the 1,731 “Sky Soldiers of the 173rd Airborne Brigade who served with honor” and who were killed in action in six years of Vietnam War combat.

After eight years as an Army Ranger, Leroy Miller wanted to continue using his military skills and serve his country. He became an apprentice in the construction trades and is accumulating thousands of hours on work sites to become a journeyman. On a sunny day in Wisconsin's Northwoods, Miller was spending some of those hours doing something he loved — helping fellow veterans.

Every day, more than 400 American World War II veterans die. Some say that when the last veteran of any war dies, the memory of that war dies as well. That’s one reason the New Mexico National Guard Museum in Santa Fe is staging a re-enactment Saturday of a World War II-era U.S. Army camp.

Royals down Raiders 3-0 in final regular season matches for both teams with European championships looming.

Unbeaten Ramstein and Stuttgart, SHAPE and Naples all win easily heading to finish regular season.

Cameroon's government says the multinational joint forces fighting Boko Haram have arrested five leaders of the extremist group and freed dozens of women and children held captive.

They were used to stalk Russian helicopters in Afghanistan, and the United States has worked hard to keep them out of chaotic Syria. But now Kurdish guerrillas battling Turkey's security forces may now have shoulder-fired missiles – an acquisition analysts say will seriously challenge Turkish airpower and potentially intensify fighting in the region.

When they take to the pitch Saturday for the final game of the Spanish soccer league season Real Madrid players will wear black armbands in mourning for those killed when Islamic State gunmen stormed a cafe in northern Iraq, opening fire on those inside. The men, the soccer team says, were its supporters, who had gathered for a union meeting.

The Afghan government is expected to finalize a peace deal with a notorious militant insurgent group within days, an official and a representative of the group said on Saturday.

Syrian activists say the Islamic State group has launched an offensive against government forces in an eastern city and captured several buildings.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. presidential hopeful Donald Trump are kissing on the side of a barbecue restaurant in Vilnius, Lithuania. The mural, painted by local artist Mindaugas Bonanu, was unveiled by the co-owner of the Keule Ruke, Dominykas Ceckauskas, on Thursday. It has swiftly gained attention in both Lithuanian and international media.

The oldest living person in the world, and the only one left who has touched three centuries, is a raw-egg-eating, brandy-drinking Italian woman who credits her long life to her daily eggs, her early bedtime and being single.

Syrian activists say the Islamic State group has launched an offensive against government forces in an eastern city and captured several buildings.

It’s been 45 years since the last American child was buried in the Kaiserslautern city cemetery, in a section known simply as the Kindergraves.

Avery scores three times as team routs Hansen 46-6.

A Mexican civilian court has freed the final three soldiers accused of homicide in a 2014 incident in which suspects were allegedly executed after they surrendered.

More than 60 people have been killed by lightning over the past two days during tropical storms across Bangladesh, local media said Saturday.

Germany's federal government expects to spend $106.2 billion to support refugees over the next five years, weekly Der Spiegel reported Saturday.

A British woman who was sentenced to six years and eight months in prison for drug trafficking will be deported back to Britain, Peru's judicial authority has said.

A fertility doctor is under house arrest in Italy after a Spanish nurse told authorities some of her eggs were surgically removed without her consent at his clinic.