Новости за 16.11.2016

The U.S.-led anti-Islamic State coalition is not supporting a Turkish-planned offensive to seize a city in northern Syria held by the terrorist group, an American military spokesman said Wednesday.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warns that there is a real risk of mass atrocities being committed in South Sudan, following a sharp rise in hate speech and ethnic incitement.

Midway through trial, the judge threw out a civil lawsuit by a Navy veteran, who was seeking monetary damages from the Sands, arguing it over-served him alcohol before he assaulted his then-fiancee nearly five years ago inside their hotel room.

Falcons defenders speculated that this week’s practice would be filled with tackling drills to prepare for the task at hand. One broken tackle on the edge can often spring a quick, shifty runner to a long run.

President-elect Donald Trump took to Twitter Wednesday morning to push back against news coverage suggesting that his transition to power is in chaos, saying the process of selecting Cabinet secretaries and working with the Obama administration "is going so smoothly.''

P. Michael Pezzella, a retired Baltimore public schools principal who was wounded in the Korean War and helped establish a war memorial in Canton, Md. died Saturday after suffering a fall at his home. He was 86.

An Air Force combat controller credited with protecting a 100-man special operations unit with precision airstrikes during an intense Afghanistan firefight received a Silver Star on Wednesday for his actions.

As President-elect Donald Trump talks normalization of relations with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Republicans in Congress are moving to stake out a tough stance against Russia.

Few filmmakers have portrayed the messy reality of human desire and sexuality as consistently, as elegantly, and as powerfully as Andre Techine.

Images surfaced of a Hezbollah parade, featuring U.S. armored personnel carriers affixed with antiaircraft guns, prompting speculation about their origin and whether the group had pilfered the stocks of the U.S.-supplied Lebanese military.

The Kenyan government has extended by six months its deadline for sending home at least 260,000 Somali refugees to close the world's largest refugee camp in Kenya's east, the country's interior minister said Wednesday.

While Donald Trump can expect the Republican Senate to confirm the vast majority of his choices, the party's narrow 52-48 edge and early infighting could slow or doom controversial ones.

We already knew that 2015 was a bad year (and that 2016 might not be much better). But a new report now shows by how much 2015 was worse in terms of militant attacks in the West. It was the second-deadliest year in terms of militant attacks in recent history, according to the Institute of Economics and Peace, which releases an annual "Global Terrorism Index."

Albania's Defense Ministry says a woman has been promoted to the rank of general, a first for the nation.

Israel's defense minister said Wednesday that Israel should seek a deal with President-elect Donald Trump to allow expanded construction in major West Bank settlements while freezing building in isolated areas of the occupied territory — a proposal that, if accepted, would mark a sharp break from the policy under the Obama administration.

Pakistan put its military might on display Wednesday with the country's prime minister and the army chief traveling to a strategic area close to the border with archrival India to observe a military drill.

Tech. Sgt. (Select) Anthony Espino of Eglin Air Force Base's 53rd Wing won the Operation Fly VPS Home for the Holidays sweepstakes sponsored by the Destin-Fort Walton Beach Airport and Northwest Florida Daily News.

The two people most frequently mentioned to head the Pentagon in Donald Trump's administration are both senators — and some of their chamber's most hawkish Republicans.

Afghan forces rely heavily on international forces for their air surveillance and reconnaissance, but Afghanistan’s military and its foreign backers hope that a new fleet of Afghan-owned-and-operated ScanEagle unmanned aerial vehicles will allow them to acquire more battlefield intelligence themselves and become less dependent on foreign forces.

Heavy fighting broke out in Mosul's eastern Tahrir neighborhood on Wednesday, where Iraqi special forces said a suicide car bomber from the Islamic State group disabled an Abrams tank belonging to the Iraqi army.

Last week Mustafa al Hawsawi’s lawyers asked the trial judge to postpone the Dec. 5-9 hearing because he is still suffering pain and is medicated following reconstructive surgery for decade-old damage from the captive’s “sodomy” in CIA custody.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says he's observed a change in Donald Trump's rhetoric following the election and that he and the U.S. president-elect have agreed to meet face-to-face.

Ahead of a visit by Turkey's president, Islamabad ordered 400 Turkish nationals affiliated with a chain of international schools in Pakistan to leave the country within 72 hours, officials said Wednesday.

Advocates for Myanmar's Muslim ethnic Rohingya community said Wednesday that more than 100 members of the minority group have been killed in recent government counterinsurgency sweeps in the western state of Rakhine.

Witnesses and activists say Yemeni troops have driven Shiite Houthi rebels out of a presidential palace and military hospital in the western city of Taiz, where heavy clashes are underway.