Новости за 21.05.2016

On a secret trip to Syria, the new commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East said Saturday he felt a moral obligation to enter a war zone to check on his troops and make his own assessment.

Ever-present ISB won the title after losing to Ramstein 1-0 in last year's championship match, adding the 2016 trophy to the consecutive DODEA-Europe championships it won in 2012 and 2013.

Naples helped keep Ramstein from title game, but falls to Panthers for second time this season.

The United Nations chief has urged Middle Eastern states and world powers to use their influence to convince Syria's warring parties to discuss a political transition in the war-torn nation during a visit to the Gulf nation of Qatar.

More than 950 cadets will receive their degrees and commissions as second lieutenants in the U.S. Army during the May 21 ceremony.

A World War II aircraft that took nearly 16 years to restore might be flying over Kansas in the next few weeks after receiving a certificate of airworthiness from the Federal Aviation Administration.

Rosalie Chris Lerman, a survivor of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp who was the wife of the founder of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and a passionate advocate of Holocaust remembrance, has died. She was 90.

Thursday’s arrest of a 32-year-old U.S. man for the alleged murder of a young Okinawan woman has reignited anger locally and threatens repercussions at an international level.

The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency told Wright-Patterson to take a drinking water well that serves Area A off line Friday because of high levels of a chemical that has been used as a firefighting foam agent, according to the agency.

The Air Force has been checking private wells in the area for about a year after finding that water coming from a water treatment plant showed elevated levels of the compounds. The Air Force, which has been working to clean up other contaminants from years of military training at the base.

The United States says China has some explaining to do after two Chinese J-11 fighters this week intercepted a U.S. Navy EP-3 Aries reconnaissance plane in international airspace over the South China Sea in an encounter described as “unsafe.” That discussion could come next week in Hawaii.

A Richmond man is accused of shooting a Northern Virginia man to death about 7:15 p.m. Friday during what was supposed to be a child custody exchange in Stafford County, police said.

Most training programs focus on enlisted soldiers. But Tech Qualled offered a different approach. It recruits officers and college-educated enlisted soldiers who, after an intense 10-week training course, can slot comfortably into technically demanding sales roles at high-tech companies.

The men who form Kenya's first line of defense against the Somali militant group al-Shabab wear sneakers or rubber tire sandals, bucket hats, and mismatched, hand-me-down fatigues.

Jim St. John spent four years in the United States Army during World War II and, luckily, he said, never once had to fire his rifle.

A local Navy veteran, who asked that he remain anonymous, gave high praise this week to a national nonprofit that works to fly veterans to Washington, D.C. to visit their respective war memorials.

Driving across the Berkley Bridge, you may have noticed an unusual sight. General Dynamics NASSCO-Norfolk shipyard, the former Metro Machine yard, is empty. The lean, gray warships normally docked there, often patched in places with mysterious white shrouds, are so much a part of the waterfront that they’re virtually invisible. Until they’re gone.

World War II veteran Wayland Reynolds, 93, can recall his time of service as if it were yesterday, from first enlisting in the Navy in October 1942 at age 20 to transporting thousands of Marines to Iwo Jima on the U.S.S. Missoula.

A congressional hearing slated for Monday aboard a Norfolk-based aircraft carrier at the request of U.S. Rep. Randy Forbes, who is seeking election in the 2nd Congressional District, has been changed to a private meeting, Forbes’ office said Friday.

A memorial stone was unveiled and a tree dedicated Friday to honor a 20-year-old Cumberland sailor who was among 74 lost at sea in a naval accident in the Vietnam War. Part of a nationwide effort to get the 74 names added to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial wall in Washington, D.C., the stone was placed by veterans, survivors and relatives of the men aboard the USS Frank E. Evans.

Congress is advancing bipartisan legislation intended to address the nation's opioid abuse epidemic, but lawmakers appear to be no closer to finding a way to pay for the effort — an omission that even supporters say will severely limit its impact.

Russia's anti-terrorism agency says its officers have arrested four people it says are connected with the Islamic State group and are suspected of planning attacks.

Activists say seven members of the same family were killed in an airstrike by the U.S.-led international coalition against the Islamic State group on the northern Syrian village of Arshaf.

President Obama departs Saturday for a week-long trip to Vietnam and Japan that will focus on economics and national security, punctuated by a historic stop in Hiroshima on Friday.