Новости за 25.07.2016

Veterans' organizations have reached out to help a Korean War-era veteran who authorities say was held hostage in a motel room for four years by a man who stole his benefit checks.

Police say four Fort Carson soldiers have been arrested in connection with a home invasion involving a family they knew.

For two years and more, it has been a lost ship, a metal container carrying 239 souls that simply disappeared one late Asian night never to be seen again. And now, the search for the remains of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 likely will become a thing of memory, too.

A General District Court judge last week dismissed all charges against two men accused of murdering an acquaintance following a home invasion.

Federal authorities say they've launched the first national system intended to prevent hobby drones from interfering with planes and helicopters fighting wildfires.

The Israeli military says its warplanes have hit a position in Syria from where mortars were fired into the Israeli-held Golan Heights.

Democrats who gleefully jeered Republican divisions last week awoke to a political mess of their own making Monday as party unity behind Hillary Clinton proved much harder to secure.

Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry says five border guards have been killed in an eight-hour-long cross-border clash with militants from Yemen.

A California man who aspired to join the Islamic State group in Syria and lied to get a replacement American passport to head overseas was sentenced Monday to 15 years in prison and supervised release for life.

Maj. Charles Seeley had just completed a turn after his fourth pass of the “enemy target” and was in a controlled dive when the F-86A Sabre jet started to buck.

Turkish Airlines says it has terminated the contracts of 211 employees, joining a government purge of people suspected of links to a U.S.-based cleric whom authorities accuse of orchestrating Turkey's failed coup.

Arab officials gathered in a tent in the Mauritanian capital Monday, in the most poorly attended Arab League summit in years, a sign of the region's disarray.

Air France warns some of its flights are expected to be cancelled later this week due to a seven-day strike of some cabin crew members.

The Israeli prime minister's office says an official will travel to Washington next week in the hopes of signing a long-anticipated agreement that could result in increased U.S. military assistance to Israel.

At a time when war with China is talked about as a future possibility, the deputy director for air and cyberspace operations at Pacific Air Forces gave a rare look at how advanced fifth-generation aircraft — the F-22 Raptor and F-35 Lightning II among them — could lead the air campaign in a conflict in the region.

Two female Army officers have been approved for initial Special Forces training, the first step in the long process to earn the coveted Green Beret, an Army spokeswoman said Monday.

Ed Aitken said he fought in Vietnam for the right to make his choice for president when he walks into the voting booth back home in Colorado.

Hillary Clinton appealed for veterans’ support during a speech at the VFW Convention in Charlotte, N.C., on Monday, where she also repeatedly criticized rival Donald Trump’s statements and positions without mentioning his name.

Security on the U.S. Army base in Ansbach was stepped up Monday following a suicide attack in the city over the weekend, with authorities saying the attacker had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group.

“What happens if somebody is shot and you were there? What happens if it’s you?” says James Cameron, a former Army Ranger and founder of Security Concepts Group.

A NATO spokesman said Monday that the Islamic State group isn’t gaining strength in Afghanistan, despite a weekend attack in Kabul by the militants that killed 80 people and injured more than 200.

U.S.-backed fighters in northern Syria renewed an offer Monday to Islamic State militants in Manbij, saying that if they allow civilians to leave the besieged northern town IS fighters will be allowed to leave too and will not be attacked.

A failed asylum-seeker from Syria blew himself up and wounded 15 people after being turned away from an open-air music festival in southern Germany, authorities said Monday. It was the fourth attack to shake Germany in a week — three of them carried out by recent migrants.

The Islamic State’s ability to carry out deadly attacks complicates prospects for peace in Afghanistan, where Afghan and U.S. forces and their allies have fought Taliban insurgents since 2001.

Jon Larvick knows a thing or two about what it takes to get an aircraft off the ground.