Новости за 27.08.2016

Naval Air Station Key West is one of three sites under consideration, joining Naval Station Mayport in Jacksonville and Virginia’s NASA Wallops Flight Facility to build a launch and recovery base for four MQ-4C Triton drones.

Backed by Turkish tanks and reports of airstrikes, Turkey-allied Syrian rebels clashed with Kurdish-led forces in northeastern Syria in a new escalation that further complicates the already protracted Syrian conflict.

General Dynamics Electric Boat delivered the submarine that will become the USS Illinois on Saturday after more than five years of construction.

The attack on Bab al-Nayrab took place in waves, activists said. The first barrel bomb hit a funeral procession, the second landed as rescue workers arrived. Doctors said the preliminary death count was 25.

The revised assessment comes after surprisingly swift and relatively bloodless victories this summer near Syria’s border with Turkey and in the Sunni heartland of Iraq, two areas where Islamic State had appeared entrenched.

Some mistakes are never too late to fix. A Civil War soldier misidentified when he was buried at an Ohio cemetery more than 150 years ago is to get a new headstone.

A sniper lurks among desolated buildings of an abandoned village just over the hillside where Kurdish soldiers are dug in behind a berm, but Serbest Tivanisi, the Kurdish sector commander, doesn’t flinch as he peers over the sandbags.

A $400 million cash delivery to Iran to repay a decades-old arbitration claim may be unprecedented in recent U.S. history, according to legal experts and diplomatic historians, raising further questions about a payment timed to help free four American prisoners in Iran.

Eight soldiers were killed in an attack in Paraguay's north by suspected members of a little-known rebels group, authorities said Saturday, just days after Colombian officials and guerrillas reached a peace deal to end the longest running insurgency in Latin America.

A nonprofit group with New Hampshire roots is putting a new spin on back-to-school shopping by helping equip 10 classrooms for refugee children in Iraq.

Hillary Clinton received her first national security briefing Saturday as the Democratic presidential nominee, meeting with intelligence officials for an overview of the major threats facing the nation around the globe.

Lawyers say three former Salvadoran military officers who Spanish courts wanted to put on trial for their alleged roles in the killing of six Jesuit priests have been freed from prison after the Supreme Court denied their extradition.

Turkey's incursion into Syria is deepening tensions between two major U.S.-backed groups, potentially setting up a conflict that could undermine Washington's efforts to eradicate the Islamic State's presence in Syria.

U.S. sailors in the Persian Gulf can expect increased harassment by Iranian vessels as Iran’s hard-liners seek to bolster their position ahead of next year’s Iranian election and the U.S. is absorbed in its own electoral campaign.

U.S. Navy warships are likely to face further harassment by Iranian vessels in the Persian Gulf as Iran’s hard-liners seek to bolster their position ahead of next year’s Iranian election while the U.S. is absorbed in its own electoral campaign.

The Navy will have a larger presence than usual at this year's Maritime Heritage Festival, one of the last major events of the yearlong celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Naval Submarine Base and Naval Submarine School, known as Connecticut's Submarine Century.

On the 96th anniversary of women gaining the right to vote, and 40 years after military service academies were first opened to women, one of the first women to graduate from the Coast Guard Academy told a room filled with mostly female cadets: "It's your Coast Guard now. Speak up."

The U.S. Coast Guard says two stranded mariners were rescued Friday after crews saw their "SOS" in the sand on an uninhabited island in Micronesia, Hawaii News Now reports.

Three dots suddenly came out of the helicopter, they quickly became three people and they sprouted distinctive black and red parachutes. They descended in a corkscrew course, flying with precision and touching down one by one on the football field. Three members of the Black Daggers, the U.S. Army’s Special Ops Parachute Demonstration Team, had arrived.

A Canadian patient's receipt of a kidney transplant after waiting just three days during a recent visit to China raised an immediate red flag among surgeons at the Montreal-based Transplantation Society: A turnaround that quick indicates the organ likely came from the body of an executed prisoner.

Police in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir said Saturday that they have arrested one of the key separatist leaders spearheading protests against Indian rule in the disputed region.

The Spc. Brandon Scott Mullins Memorial Highway sign was dedicated Friday inside the packed gymnasium of Audubon Elementary School.

They are in their 80s and 90s now, these women of World War II and Korea, but they jumped to their feet when the color guard headed their way. Walkers and wheelchairs be damned. These WACs (Army), WAVES (Navy) and Marines stood up for their country. Just like they did decades ago when the country needed them most.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently released a report that suggests leaving the highly toxic waste in the San Jacinto River might be less risky than digging it up and hauling it away.

Two-term U.S. Rep. Richard Hudson, who represents the 8th District, calls the departure of the 440th Airlift Wing on Fort Bragg “a short-sighted decision” that has spawned a series of troubling issues. The Army has long opposed Air Force plans to shut down the 440th, fearing that it could compromise training.