Новости за 09.12.2016

Brendan Hicks dropped in what proved to be the game-winning layup with 40 seconds to play as the Royals improved to 2-1.

Two women suicide bombers blew themselves up at a bustling market in northeast Nigeria's Madagali town on Friday morning, killing at least 30 people and wounding 67, an army spokesman told The Associated Press.

Nearly two weeks into a crushing blitz, Syrian forces and their allies have taken control of nearly all of what was once an opposition stronghold in eastern Aleppo, touching off a new wave of evacuations Friday and raising concerns about hundreds of men who have disappeared and are feared to have been seized by the government.

President Barack Obama has ordered intelligence officials to conduct a broad review of election-season cyber attacks, including the email hacks that rattled the presidential campaign and raised fresh concerns about Russia's meddling in U.S. elections, the White House said Friday.

A last-minute budget showdown between Democrats and Republicans on Friday tripped up an effort to speed up Gen. James Mattis’ consideration as defense secretary, but appeared unlikely to derail the effort.

Concerns about alleged sex abuse and harassment of U.S. Merchant Marine cadets training aboard commercial vessels are disputed in a new report issued by an alumni task force.

Afghanistan has fallen so far from Americans' consciousness that some may have forgotten it's called the forgotten war. It also is America's longest war. Now in its 16th year and showing little sign of ending, it will soon be the responsibility of Donald Trump, two presidents removed from the October 2001 invasion.

Doctors Without Borders is rejecting a claim by the Saudi-led coalition fighting Shiite rebels in Yemen that a coalition airstrike on one of the aid group's hospitals in the war-torn country was an accident.

A former Navy base in Pendleton County has been sold and is going to be repurposed as a health care campus for active-duty military personnel and West Virginia residents.

After telling my friends and colleagues I’d be embarking aboard the French aircraft carrier Charles De Gaulle, the immediate response was: “I’ve heard they are allowed to have beards, have amazing food and booze! That’s the good life, enjoy!”

Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency says a court has dropped a case against Israeli military officials charged in the deaths of 10 Turkish activists, a decision aligned with a reconciliation pact between Turkey and Israel.

A Turkish court on Friday dropped a case against Israeli military officials charged in the deaths of 10 Turkish activists who had sought to breach the naval blockade on Gaza in 2010, Turkey's state-run news agency reported.

Army-Navy is America's Game. That's the way Jeff Monken sees it, and he brings a solid argument to back up the assertion. Now in his third season as Army's head coach, Monken previously spent six years as an assistant at Navy. Having been an integral part of the annual duel between the esteemed service academies, Monken considers it to be the epitome of college football.

The U.S. Senate has passed the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act, which includes a provision to require the Department of Defense to provide military recruits with American-made shoes.

Athletic officials from Annapolis and West Point will be hosting representatives from various cities and Naval Academy athletic director Chet Gladchuk said some will bow out of the running after learning all of what is involved.

U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Friday that America will stick with Afghanistan for years to come as a new U.S. president takes over what is already America's longest war.

U.S. Navy Lt. Osbaldo walked through all of the catapult spaces beneath the flight deck, shaking hands with every present member of his French crew, a morning routine he’s grown accustomed to since attaching to the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle.

An attorney for a former Russian army officer sentenced to life in prison for leading a Taliban attack on U.S. forces says the man should have his convictions thrown out because he is a lawful enemy combatant.

Retired Maj. Gen. James Gilman, former commander of the unit that oversees the U.S. Army's battlefield medical needs, will become the new head the National Institutes of Health's troubled clinical center, NIH announced Friday.

Airstrikes have destroyed 168 Islamic State oil tanker trucks in eastern Syria, the U.S.-led coalition said in a statement Friday.

Hundreds of men have disappeared after fleeing rebel-held districts in the Syrian city of Aleppo, the United Nations said Friday, amid claims that armed groups on both sides have abducted and even killed civilians who tried to leave.

The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors wants the tallest peak in a mountain range south of Phoenix named in honor of fallen Navy SEAL Charles Keating IV.

A Kenyan army spokesman says soldiers on patrol have killed four extremists suspected of being members of the al-Qaida-linked Somali group al-Shabab.

Six drug smugglers were fatally shot in a gunbattle in northern Thailand when they were confronted by soldiers, the military said.

The chief of the European Union's executive branch said Friday he wants to streamline defense industries in member states to make them more efficient and less dependent on U.S. military protection.