Новости за 24.11.2017

The chief of the Arizona National Guard is mounting a last-ditch effort to save Apache attack-helicopter training at the Silverbell Army Heliport near Marana, as the Army moves to transfer most of the Guard's Apaches to active-duty units.

The Sinai Peninsula once had a reputation as one of the Egypt's most attractive places to visit as a foreign tourist, offering world-class resorts, rugged landscapes and incredible diving. But in recent years, a sequence of violent attacks have shaken the sparsely populated region and given it a reputation as a terrorism hot spot.

Syria's fragmented opposition agreed to form a single bloc to negotiate with President Bashar Assad at a meeting in the Saudi capital Riyadh, giving a boost to a Russian-led diplomatic drive to end the 6-year civil war.

Former U.S. Army Sgt. Taylor Bonham just came back from competing in the 2017 National Veterans Creative Arts Festival in Buffalo, N.Y., in late October, and he credits his faith, his wife and fellow veterans for his journey.

Ajit Pai, President Donald Trump’s appointee as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, presented his proposal as a means for getting government off the backs of internet providers. What he didn’t say is that his real goal is to allow big business to saddle up.

When he was named special counsel in May, Robert Mueller was hailed as the ideal lawman to investigate whether President Donald Trump’s campaign had helped with Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. But Mueller's record also shows a man of fallible judgment who can be slow to alter his chosen course.

Argentina's president said Friday that an international search will continue for a submarine carrying 44 crew members that has been lost in the South Atlantic for nine days and that the sub's disappearance will be investigated.

Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., has waded into the murky waters of trying to apologize for inappropriately touching women — while asserting that he didn’t intentionally do anything wrong.

University of Maryland researchers may be taking a promising step to tackle two intractable, but often related conditions: alcoholism and post-traumatic stress disorder.

Zimbabweans must set aside "poisoned" politics and work together to rebuild the nation and re-engage the world, new President Emmerson Mnangagwa said Friday, delivering an inclusive message to an exultant crowd that packed a stadium for his inauguration.

The U.S.-led NATO alliance will open a new security cooperation center in neutral Moldova, a small Eastern European country locked in a territorial dispute with Russia.

A monument to the Army officer who selected the site for Fort Boise in 1863 stood for 84 years near his campsite on the Boise River. But city leaders and club members decided its sentiment — marking that arrival as "the beginning of civilization in the Boise Valley" — is no longer appropriate.

For the first time since his arrest last year, the former U.S. base worker accused of raping and killing a 20-year-old Japanese woman attempted to express remorse during the closing arguments of his murder trial Friday on Okinawa.

After the floods of Texas and fires of California, I spent a couple of days asking people what they would grab if their home was about to be destroyed. They all mentioned keepsakes and mementos of loved ones.

An elitist undercurrent keeps Americans at arm’s length from important conversations about their military — and only veterans and senior military leaders can address it.

The White House is pressing to declassify intelligence allegedly linking Iran to short-range ballistic missile attacks by Yemeni insurgents against Saudi Arabia, part of a public relations blitz aimed at persuading America's U.N. counterparts that Tehran is helping to fuel the country's conflict.

The fall of the town of Abu Kamal in Syria and recent victories by Iraqi security forces in Qaim and Rawa in Iraq mark the collapse of the Islamic State caliphate. As the it has demonstrated in the past, the Islamic State is a resilient and adaptive enemy that almost certainly will not go quietly into the night. Rather, it will work doggedly in the coming months to keep its brand alive.

The problem is widely recognized in both Congress and the Trump administration, and yet it is unlikely that anything will be done about it.

A 48th Fighter Wing airman died after a single-car crash off base in Brandon, England, shortly after midnight Thursday.

Zimbabwe's new President Emmerson Mnangagwa vowed Friday he will work to reduce crushing unemployment and return the country to prosperity after years of decline, as the nation cheered a new beginning after the extraordinary exit of Robert Mugabe.

The growing perils faced by U.S. troops in Niger are intensifying questions about the decision to build a drone base near Agadez — the second such facility in Niger, an impoverished West African country twice the size of Texas.

Militants attacked a crowded mosque during Friday prayers in the Sinai Peninsula, settling off explosives, spraying worshippers with gunfire and killing at least 200 people in the deadliest ever attack on Egyptian civilians by Islamic extremists.

Egyptian state news agency MENA reports that 85 people have been killed in a bombing and shooting attack on a mosque in the volatile northern Sinai Peninsula, in what appeared to be the latest attack by the area's local Islamic State affiliate.

While the Fat Leonard scandal has torn through the Navy, a second case alleging extensive fraud in ship servicing by a different company has cut a far narrower profile.

Indonesia's military and police continue to perform abusive virginity tests on female recruits three years after the World Health Organization declared they had no scientific validity, an international human rights group said Wednesday.