Новости за 27.11.2016

At Fort Bragg, does Santa wear a maroon beret? And is a family holiday photo complete without a parachute and camouflage? Those are questions the 82nd Airborne Division hopes to answer as it tries to start a new holiday tradition on Fort Bragg.

The pilots' union at German airline Lufthansa says it is calling additional strikes for Tuesday and Wednesday, following a two-day break in its campaign of walkouts.

On Fort Bragg, the tree is more than just a symbol of the holidays.

Israel says it will expand its fleet of next-generation F-35 fighter jets in a move that officials believe will maintain the country's qualitative military edge over its Mideast neighbors.

A pair of military training groups is building a presence in the Flathead Valley. One has already landed, purchased land and is ready to roll. The other is following suit, a much larger operation ready to make its first footprint in the valley.

An estimated 275,000 people are trapped in wretched conditions in the city's rebel-held eastern districts since the government sealed its siege of the enclave in late August.

Egypt's Foreign Ministry has denied what it said were Arab media reports about an Egyptian military presence in Syria.

The final punch-list inspection is complete on one of the nicest-looking new buildings in east Jackson County.

As the 75th anniversary of the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor approaches, here are two options to learn more about the event that triggered America’s entry into World War II:

An art teacher who studied famed L.A. ceramicist Glen Lukens’ innovative glazes in college, Steve Dilley decided it was his turn to use his skills to help wounded veterans through art therapy.

Donald Trump's election has thrown into question plans by U.S. cities to take in Syrian refugees.

Chuck Zobac spent years coming to terms with his service in Vietnam, living with post-traumatic stress disorder and battling the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Veterans are planning a protest at a western Massachusetts college facing criticism from around the country for its decision to stop flying U.S. flags after students allegedly burned a flag in protest of Donald Trump's presidential election.

Beaver dams have been demolished, burbling fountains silenced, and the drinking water in one southern town has taken on the light brownish color of sweet tea.

The residents of this hamlet don’t pay taxes or perform the military service mandatory for men elsewhere. They have a competitive school and some of the best farmland in South Korea. The trade-off? They live in the Demilitarized Zone, with North Korea less than a mile away, so there’s the constant threat of invasion across the world’s most heavily fortified border.

A Syrian official blasted Turkey Saturday saying it is to blame for the death of its soldiers because it sent them to Syria, as the Syrian army said troops have captured a neighborhood in the northern city of Aleppo days after the government resumed its offensive on the besieged rebel-held eastern part of the city.

The killings are an escalation of a long-running conflict between Ugandan security forces and rebels who are believed to be loyal to a tribal king.

During Operation Desert Storm, then-Capt. Russell Sanborn had just pounded Iraqi military targets with gravity bombs in the southern Kuwaiti desert. Then a missile struck his AV-8B Harrier, forcing him to parachute into the same area, where the angry enemy waited. Now a major general commanding the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing at Camp Foster, Okinawa, Sanborn uses his experiences as a POW to teach Marines the tenets of the military Code of Conduct and resiliency in all aspects of life.

We the people elected a president, and while it might not be the president that everyone liked or was rooting for or could even stomach without reaching for the Dramamine, this man did not steal anyone’s votes.

With the end of Fidel Castro’s nasty life Friday night, we can hope, if not reasonably expect, to have seen the last of charismatic totalitarians worshiped by political pilgrims from open societies.

President-elect Donald Trump had previously called for a reversal of Obama’s approach to Cuba, but his intentions now are unclear. And the death late Friday of Cuban leader Fidel Castro — who Trump called a “brutal dictator” in a statement Saturday — may hand the incoming administration a politically acceptable way to keep some of Obama’s changes in place.

An estimated 275,000 people are trapped in wretched conditions in the city's rebel-held eastern districts since the government sealed its siege of the enclave in late August.

An airman who went missing last week while swimming off Guam is presumed dead after a six-day search, an Air Force statement said.

Search-and-recovery efforts that began after Master Sgt. Greg Ramos was reported missing around midnight Nov. 21 have produced no signs of him.

Police said suspect had sufficient explosives to make bombs three times more powerful than those used in the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people.