Новости за 13.10.2017

Some 100 fighters from the Islamic State group handed themselves over to U.S.-backed fighters in the northern city of Raqqa Friday as fighting continued with remaining gunmen in a pocket inside the city.

A Nigerian court has convicted 45 Boko Haram members in the largest mass trial in the Islamic extremist group's history.

Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard faces new sanctions from U.S. President Donald Trump as he accuses the country of violating the spirit of the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers. But what is this organization?

“The passage of the Patowmac through the Blue Ridge is perhaps one of the most stupendous scenes in Nature,” Thomas Jefferson wrote of the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers in 1783. “This scene is worth a voyage across the Atlantic.” Many appear to have heeded his recommendation.

The Helsinki airport says Flight 666 has arrived safety in HEL — the airport code for the Finnish capital — for the last time.

Catalonia's leader faced mounting pressure Friday from all sides, with hardliners in the separatist movement demanding he definitively declare independence from Spain.

Police in Kenya shot and killed two opposition protesters who allegedly stormed a police station with farm tools and rocks in the western part of the country.

European leaders pushed back sharply Friday against President Donald Trump's decision to strip White House backing from the Iran nuclear deal, saying the move would weaken U.S. credibility, drive a wedge within the Western alliance and hurt global efforts to address dangers from Tehran to North Korea.

The older brother of a French jihadi who killed Jewish schoolchildren and soldiers in 2012 says he had no idea what his sibling was plotting.

A combat center in northern Michigan has become the third military installation in the state to test positive for contaminated groundwater.

I saw I had put value on “playing by the rules” without realizing how immigration rules are arbitrary at best and discriminatory at worst.

The Alaska Veterans Affairs system says it is adding 100 staff members in response to negative reviews from patients and staff.

Here it is — we have it now — the defining moment of this bizarro, alternate reality we’re living in today.

When athletes, black or white, bring their political statements onto the field of play or refuse an invitation to the White House, it destroys many fans’ connections to sports.

In a stunning setback to the trial of the alleged mastermind of the 2000 USS Cole bombing, the case’s entire civilian legal team including its capital defense attorney has quit the case over a secret ethical conflict.

Four young members of the Air Force have been arrested after authorities said they spray-painted satanic symbols on a 250-year-old South Carolina church that tends to draw people interested in ghost stories.

More than 100 servicemembers got a rousing reception from family and friends at Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Virginia on Thursday. One well-wisher was taken aback when her Air Force boyfriend dropped to one knee, stretched out his hands with an engagement ring and proposed. Soon after, they celebrated with a kiss.

Months after President Donald Trump’s administration backed off a proposal to slash benefits for the country’s most disabled veterans, organizations such as the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars were still receiving calls and emails from panicked vets. That’s why the organizations were relieved Thursday, when VA Secretary David Shulkin put the promise in writing.

U.S. authorities ordered inspections of some engines powering Airbus SE's A380 superjumbo jet after one of the turbines blew apart last month during an Air France flight.

Sgt. 1st Class Jose Graulau is part of a small team of soldiers from the Fort Bragg-based 3rd Expeditionary Sustainment Command who have been deployed to Puerto Rico to help hurricane survivors.

President Donald Trump on Friday accused Iran of violating the spirit of a landmark 2015 nuclear deal, but broke with a campaign pledge to rip up the agreement, saying he was not yet ready to pull the U.S. out or re-impose nuclear sanctions.

The couple was rescued Wednesday, five years after they had been abducted by the Taliban-linked extremist network while in Afghanistan as part of a backpacking trip.

The couple was rescued Wednesday, five years after they had been abducted by the Taliban-linked extremist network while in Afghanistan as part of a backpacking trip.

About 500 Oklahoma National Guard troops are in the middle of several months of intensive training preparing for deployment to Afghanistan in late December.

A group of Fort Drum aviators are being praised for helping to locate an 85-year-old man who was missing near the post’s boundaries.