Новости за 23.10.2017

As U.S.-backed forces succeed in driving Islamic State militants from territory in Iraq and now Syria, the Trump administration has difficult choices — and divided opinions — about how the heavily devastated region can recover in an era when U.S. policy is to take a back-seat role.

President Donald Trump has awarded the Medal of Honor to a retired army medic from Alabama who risked his life during the Vietnam War to help wounded comrades.

A beaming Rose stood in the East Room surrounded by a packed room that included his 10 comrades from his heroic four-day mission to Laos. The effort comes more than 47 years after the mission, which was known as Operation Tailwind.

Major reforms to veterans’ health care are moving forward on Capitol Hill, and politically conservative and liberal groups are attempting to influence what could be an intense debate over balancing private-sector care.

A National Historic Landmark, the USS Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. is home to the Admiral Arleigh Burke National Destroyermen's Museum and serves as the official memorial to Massachusetts citizens who gave their lives during the Korean and Vietnam Wars.

On Oct. 26, Universal Pictures and AMC Theatres will give away up to 10,000 free tickets to U.S. veterans and active-duty military service members for DreamWorks Pictures' “Thank You for Your Service,” at more than 400 AMC locations worldwide.

Done properly, a round of base realignment and closure, or BRAC, is a good example of federal efficiency, wrote Frederico Bartels, an analyst with the Heritage Foundation.

Emanuel Simmons was a 24-year-old, lance corporal with H&S Company, 1st Batallion, 8th Marines, when he and other Marines and sailors arrived in Beirut, Lebanon on Memorial Day, 1983 and stepped off the USS El Paso, a Charleston class amphibious cargo ship.

Sgt. William Brown, 23, served as an 81 mm mortarman, Weapons Company, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division, III Marine Expeditionary Force, based on Marine Corps Base Hawaii in Kaneohe, according to a statement by the 3rd Marine Division.

A century ago, Alexander L. Arch of South Bend pulled the lanyard on a 75-mm artillery gun near the small village of Rechicourt in northeast France, firing a shell into German territory.

The Pentagon is accelerating production of Lockheed Martin's F-35 jet even though the planes already delivered are facing "significantly longer repair times" than planned because maintenance facilities are six years behind schedule, according to a draft audit.

The powerful $2.2 billion discriminating radar can’t be used operationally anywhere near Hawaii, and its return there for “routine maintenance” highlights a major shortcoming of the system: its ship-based design.

The military judge who will sentence Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl expressed concern Monday about a new comment made President Donald Trump about the former Taliban captive, though he insisted the soldier’s punishment would not be influenced by the president.

Trigger Warning members are anxious about armed and organized extremists who seem increasingly emboldened. Their response has a touch of symmetry to it: They started a club to teach members how to take up arms.

The bodies of at least 67 Syrian civilians, many summarily killed by the Islamic State group, have been discovered in a central town in Syria that government forces retook from the extremists over the weekend, the Syrian government and activists said Monday.

The widow of a fallen soldier reproached President Donald Trump Monday over his condolence call last week, saying she was angered by his tone and that he couldn't remember her husband's name. Trump quickly responded on Twitter that he'd been "very respectful" and spoke the name "without hesitation."

A veteran girls volleyball coach with two Far East Tournament titles to his credit once remarked that easy roads to championships can be boring and he doesn’t prefer easy roads anyway.

Bob Wetter, a senior assistant surgeon for Company K of the 69th New York Infantry re-enacting group, had his surgical instruments on the wooden operating table, ready to work on George, his patient.

President Donald Trump is likely to visit a U.S. military base south of Seoul instead of the tense border area that divides the peninsula during his trip to South Korea next month, the White House said.

President Donald Trump is not planning to visit the border between North and South Korea known as the Demilitarized Zone when he visits Asia next month.

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Monday there is a place for moderate elements of the Taliban in Afghanistan's government as long as they renounce violence and terrorism and commit to stability.

Kadena has already hosted F-35Bs – the “short takeoff vertical landing” version of the jet – from the Iwakuni, Japan-based Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 121.

The president appeared to be responding to a recent report in The New York Times that Republican lawmakers were considering limiting the amount workers could save in 401(k) retirement accounts.

The president appeared to be responding to a recent report in The New York Times that Republican lawmakers were considering limiting the amount workers could save in 401(k) retirement accounts.

U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptors have returned to their home bases in the United States after wrapping up a set of exercises in Europe this month.