Новости за 06.09.2016

The Cavalla, a Gato-class submarine named after a saltwater fish, was commissioned June 19, 1944. On its first patrol, it was harried by Japanese destroyers but put three torpedoes into the Shokaku, one of the aircraft carriers that attacked Pearl Harbor.

The area under Islamic State control has been shrinking for months, under assault from forces determined to wipe out the self-declared "caliphate." Here's a look at the current battle against Islamic State.

"I had almost lost hope," said Harry Donovan, a 95-year-old World War II veteran, as he watched the truck and trailer leaving his Indianapolis home. This time, his car is going to be restored — and the right way.

Soldiers from Fort Campbell will support Operation Freedom’s Sentinel, the United States’ mission to train Afghan forces and conduct unilateral counterterrorism operations against al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group.

An American Legion post in Cedar Park wants to make sure it is the first city in Texas to have a monument honoring Gold Star families.

Human Rights Minister Ezz Eddin al-Asbahi accused the country's Shiite rebels of forcing children to fight in Yemen's civil war, saying the rebels have recruited as many as 4,800 boys over the past six months.

Lawmakers were barely back to work on the defense budget Tuesday when a bitter fight flared again over a leaked Pentagon memo.

In the shadow of the Obama administration's controversial management of the Veteran's Administration, the RNC compiled lists of veteran voters and hired veterans for an unprecedented get-out-the-vote effort. Then Trump won the party's presidential nomination.

With more than $2 billion appropriated for new hepatitis C drugs during the past two years, the Department of Veterans Affairs treated 65,000 veterans for the virus, but about 87,000 remain untreated and an additional 20,000 are undiagnosed.

A clutch of cases is moving so slowly in preliminary proceedings that the trial of five suspects accused of organizing the 9/11 attacks is expected to begin at the earliest in 2020, nearly 20 years after hijacked planes struck the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

The seventh iteration of the U.S. Army-led Combined Resolve series of international training and war gaming is nearing its final days at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center in Hohenfels.

A judge in the Bastia court said Tuesday the ban issued by the mayor in the Corsican resort village of Sisco was legal because public order had been disrupted in the region.

Anne Hidalgo said that the center, which will have 400 places in the north of Paris, aims at taking care of "several dozen migrants arriving every day" in the capital. It will open by mid-October.

An American warship was forced off course after seven Iranian fast attack boats swarmed it Sunday in the central Persian Gulf, continuing a recent pattern of Iranian harassment of U.S. military ships, a Pentagon spokesman said Tuesday.

ITT Technical Institute said Tuesday it was immediately closing all of its more than 130 campuses, throwing into doubt the education of its nearly 12,500 student veterans and dependents.

U.S. military commanders are drawing up plans to block Islamic State militants from using human shields to escape Mosul and other cities, as U.S.-backed ground forces prepare to expel them from their remaining strongholds in Iraq and Syria.

As the U.S. and Russia struggle to negotiate terms of a cease-fire in Syria, the five-year civil war has unleashed such an array of fighters that some forces are both allies and enemies, depending on which groups they encounter on the battlefield.

Japan's U.N. Ambassador Koro Bessho appealed to the U.N. Security Council to send a "united and clear" message to North Korea condemning its firing of three ballistic missiles that landed near Japan.

The Turkish fatalities came after Turkish troops and allied Syrian rebels expelled Islamic State from the last strip of territory the militant group controlled along the Syrian-Turkish border.

ITT Tech aggressively recruited veterans, in part to stay compliant with a rule that requires at least 10 percent of a for-profit college's tuition money to come from sources other than federal loans.

Accusations involving use of chlorine and other poisonous gases are not uncommon in Syria's civil war, and both sides have denied using them while blaming the other for using it as a weapon of war.

After months of escalating tensions and missile tests, President Barack Obama vowed Tuesday to work to tighten U.N. sanctions against North Korea while leaving the door open to dialogue.

Our protagonists are not without blame. But the baby was 9 months old, the husband was off to war in Iraq and the wife somehow overlooked the simple fact that her debit card number had changed.

The overnight raid ended early Tuesday when police killed three attackers who had seized the offices of an aid organization in a residential and business area of the Afghan capital. It was hours after a double bombing near the Defense Ministry that the insurgents also claimed.

The conflicting messages come as the candidates prepare to court voters in Southern states with significant veteran populations. The pair is also set to appear at an MSNBC forum on Wednesday night on national security.