Новости за 06.12.2016

Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube say they will create a database of terrorist content online to act more quickly whenever videos, imagery or other information appears on their platforms.

The Pentagon and the White House on Tuesday played down a report that the Defense Department had discarded an internal study that found it had a bloated bureaucracy and could cut $125 billion in administrative costs over five years.

The fight against terrorism has produced results in Libya but those gains are not irreversible, the U.N.'s special envoy to the North African nation said Tuesday.

Turkey's military says the country's military chief has held talks with his U.S. counterpart during a previously announced visit to an air base in southern Turkey.

After weeks of unchanging front lines, the Iraqi army rolled Tuesday into a southeastern Mosul neighborhood held by Islamic State militants, taking a hospital before meeting stiff resistance, the military said.

A military prison psychologist has refused to recommend that Chelsea Manning's gender be changed to female in her Army service record, complicating the transgender soldier's quest to wear a feminine hairstyle at the men's prison.

Attorneys for Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant are asking a federal appeals court not to revive a lawsuit that sought to erase the Confederate battle emblem from the state flag.

The last buildings occupied by Islamic State militants in Sirte have fallen into hands of Libyan fighters on Tuesday, officials said, as anti-IS fighters celebrated in the streets of the final IS stronghold in Libya.

The United States is discussing with Syrian rebels their surrender and evacuation from Aleppo, as Russia on Tuesday threatened the imminent "elimination" of anyone who refuses to leave the city.

The Air Force and the state of Ohio plan to invest $5 million in research equipment by the end of the year in hopes the airport will be approved by the FAA for engineers to fly unmanned aircraft beyond their line of sight.

Two California Army National Guardsmen were sentenced in federal court Monday following a scheme to sell weapons and Army-issued gear to an undercover agent posing as a buyer for a Mexican drug cartel.

President-elect Donald Trump's son-in-law co-directs a family foundation that has donated tens of thousands of dollars to Jewish settlement organizations in the West Bank, according to tax records.

U.S. Air Force officials will hold a public hearing Tuesday in Midwest City to discuss the potential environmental impacts associated with basing new aerial refueling planes at Tinker Air Force Base.

Relatives of Walter Scott, the black motorist fatally shot while fleeing a traffic stop, say they are confident justice will prevail even though a South Carolina jury could not reach a verdict in the murder trial of a white former police officer charged in his death.

Both men were 24. They were born in Verona, N.D., in 1917. Both had joined the Navy in 1936. John was a boatswain's mate second class; Jake, a boatswain's mate first class. Both wound up on the Arizona on Dec. 7, 1941. Only one would survive.

This year's West Point football uniforms for the upcoming Army-Navy game were inspired by the World War II paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division.

The Iraqi army on Tuesday pushed into another neighborhood held by the Islamic State group on the southeastern edge of Mosul, according to a military statement and Iraqi commanders on the ground.

From Diego Garcia to San Diego, Navy Medicine West boasts 10 hospitals, two dental centers, 51 branch clinics and about 675,000 patients, making it one of the largest health-care networks on Earth. And now it has a new skipper — Rear Adm. Paul D. Pearigen, chief of the Navy Medical Corps. He replaced Rear Adm. Bruce L. Gillingham during a Monday morning ceremony at the headquarters’ campus north of San Diego Naval Base.

A Swedish court has convicted a 24-year-old Iraqi man of war crimes for posting macabre pictures on Facebook after fighting extremists in Iraq - in the first such case in Sweden.

Swedish authorities on Tuesday charged five teenagers from Afghanistan with aggravated rape for allegedly dragging another Afghan boy into a forest, threatening him with a knife and raping him.

Lawmakers are tacking on money for security around Trump Tower in New York and funds for health care for retired coal miners to a stopgap spending bill that would avoid a government shutdown at week's end.

Alfred "Fritz" Weinhofer was 18 years old at the time. Within a few months, the handsome young man with hazel eyes and a Cary Grant chin dimple enlisted in the Marine Corps. He served in the Fourth Marine Division, known as the "Fighting Fourth," and was stationed in the South Pacific, where he worked reconnaissance – a position akin to today's Navy SEALs

Just a few months ago, German Chancellor Angela Merkel brought together the leaders of the U.S., Britain, France and Italy to discuss the world's crises, a moment captured in a photo of the five seated around a conference table. When she hosts a summit of 20 leading global powers in July, she will be the only one of them left — and many of the policies her partners worked for might be reversed.

A Greek court agreed Tuesday to extradite three Turkish servicemen who were part of an eight-person helicopter crew that fled to Greece after a failed military coup, a decision that came a day after it refused to send three others back to Turkey.

Vladimir Putin is seizing on President-elect Donald Trump's pledge to reverse U.S. policy on Syria to press for a military victory that could mark Russia's return as a great-power rival in the wider Middle East.