Новости за 06.06.2016

The deaths are once again causing journalists here to reevaluate the risks in a country where both the brutality of the Taliban and the number of casualties continue to grow.

There's a chapter in this history that often gets lost in its re-telling: a little-known operation called COBRA that set the stage for victory in France but began by killing and wounding hundreds of Americans, including a top-ranking general, in one of the worst friendly-fire incidents in U.S. military history.

There's a chapter in this history that often gets lost in its re-telling: a little-known operation called COBRA that set the stage for victory in France but began by killing and wounding hundreds of Americans, including a top-ranking general, in one of the worst friendly-fire incidents in U.S. military history.

There's a chapter in this history that often gets lost in its re-telling: a little-known operation called COBRA that set the stage for victory in France but began by killing and wounding hundreds of Americans, including a top-ranking general, in one of the worst friendly-fire incidents in U.S. military history.

Andy Samberg was sitting in a Sunset Strip hotel restaurant on a recent afternoon, talking about his latest comedy, when he suddenly paused. His ears pricked up as he noticed that the piped-in background music that had been playing for the last hour had been replaced by a live guitarist strumming gentle Brazilian music.

A two-pronged advance to capture key urban strongholds of the Islamic State group and its self-styled capital of Raqqa has underlined a quiet convergence of strategy between the U.S. and Russia to defeat the extremists, with Syria's Kurds emerging as the common link.

John Avalos, a member of the board of supervisors, told the San Francisco Chronicle that the jets are a threat to safety and should not be allowed to fly over occupied areas. Rather, he said, they should be kept over San Francisco Bay, where sea vessels typically congregate for Blue Angels performances.

Annual sales of small arms and light weapons sales to Middle Eastern countries nearly doubled in dollar terms in 2013 over the year before, as conflicts heated up across the region, according to a study released Monday.

Erfurt Germany, is on the front lines of the escalating culture war over Islam in the West. Donald Trump may be calling for a ban on Muslims visiting the United States. But on this side of the Atlantic, Islam is also under fire, with political opposition to the faith growing as an anti-Muslim message emerges as the rallying cry of Europe's far right.

A U.S. Navy officer is under investigation in the death of his wife in Belgium, where he has been jailed since March, Belgian officials and media said.

72nd Anniversary of D-Day by jumping into Sainte-Mere- Eglise, France.

72nd Anniversary of D-Day by jumping into Sainte-Mere- Eglise, France.

Thousands of NATO troops spread out across much of Poland as alliance commanders gathered Monday at Warsaw’s National Defense University to mark the official start of the multinational training exercise Anakonda 16.

Donald Trump says he made "a lot of money" in a deal years ago with Moammar Gadhafi, despite suggesting at the time he had no idea the former Libyan dictator was involved in renting his suburban New York estate.

A U.S. Navy officer is under investigation for attempted murder in Belgium, where he has been jailed since March, U.S. and Belgian officials said.

A Taliban ambush on Monday killed at least seven people, including a district intelligence chief and his deputy in northern Afghanistan, officials said.

New Balance Athletic Shoe is close to winning an almost decade-long marathon: A buy-American provision in the massive defense policy bill the Senate will debate this week could force the Pentagon to purchase the company's sneakers for new military recruits.

Somalia's security forces have arrested five soldiers from the African Union multinational force in the country for allegedly selling military supplies in the capital, the national police chief said Monday.

Of the estimated 16 million Americans who served in the armed forces during World War II, roughly 675,000 were injured in battle and 120,000 were captured as prisoners of war.

Out of around 125,000 American personnel who took part in the Normandy landings, there might be 5,000 still alive, according to one published estimate. Cooney does not know any other D-Day vets in San Francisco, and he has lived here for 60 years.

At age 79, running what may be his last campaign, Sen. John McCain finds himself on treacherous terrain.

As a nurse in the 24th Evacuation Hospital, Josephine Reaves was a young first lieutenant who found herself taking the lead and, all too frequently, giving hope to dying soldiers.

The world's first inflatable space habitat is now open for business.

Retired state administrator Joseph Larry stared at a monument to Army Staff Sgt. Justin Michael DeCrow, one of 13 people killed in a bloody shooting at Fort Hood more than six years ago, thinking about TV news reports on yet another tragedy here.

More than 5,000 vessels carried 150,000 troops across the English Channel to beaches over a 50-mile stretch of France named Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword. By the end of the first day, more than 4,000 Allied troops died, including more than 2,400 American soldiers at Omaha Beach.