Новости за 08.01.2018

A servicemember died Monday in a noncombat incident in southwest Asia, according to the U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State. Neither the servicemember nor the specific location of the death were identified.

Outside the Pentagon, Nichole Bowen-Crawford stood in the bitter cold and told everyone who would listen about being assaulted by a fellow soldier and then silenced by her superiors. She joined a small cadre of military survivors who demanded accountability from Pentagon leadership that has failed to end sexual assault in the Armed Forces.

After a 24-year-old Army veteran killed himself in 2014 using a gun previously confiscated by the Washington State Patrol, his mother told a police detective her son had spent time in a military prison, so he wasn't supposed to have a weapon.

The first war court session of the year opens with a request by lawyers for the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks to immediately suspend because the prison canceled year-end meetings between some captives and their lawyers.

The last of the former Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island drill instructors implicated in a trainee abuse scandal has pleaded guilty to multiple violations of military code and is being separated from the service.

The Pacific Command, headquartered at Camp Smith, has been led by Navy admirals since its creation as a unified command in 1947.

A fire in Trump Tower's heating and air conditioning system injured two civilians and a firefighter and caused smoke to billow from the roof on Monday morning. It took about an hour to put out the fire on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.

U.S. Army media officials designed Saturday to be one of the biggest public awareness days of the year. It accidentally may have pulled that off.

President Donald Trump also said he “would love” to see the two sides discuss more than just the Olympics, adding that he would be willing to speak by phone with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

Despite their strident tone, it’s unclear whether Trump’s tweets signal a real shift in U.S. policy.

We claim to want our children to understand that bullies should not be tolerated or respected. That philosophy should not include an exemption for dictators and terrorists.

There’s no more dangerous spot for U.S. troops than Afghanistan's Nangarhar province, where seven Americans were killed in combat last year, more than in any other single place Americans were deployed in support of overseas operations.

As she accepted the Cecil B. DeMille Award, Winfrey focused on sexual harassment and the power of speaking out against abuse and injustice.

It's the second such incident there in three days.

The emotionally charged photo of a grieving family is part of a trend of politicizing images of troops and their families, underscoring the significant rift of common experience and understanding between the military and the rest of the public.

Some analysts say it’s imperative that the U.S. steps up its aerial and maritime patrols, because Russia too is deploying more naval forces in the area.

In the Gaza Strip’s impoverished refugee camps, the United Nations’ blue-and-white flag is ubiquitous, fluttering over schools, clinics and food distribution centers.

The U.S. Navy has joined the search for 32 missing from an Iranian oil tanker that caught fire and is at risk of exploding and sinking, according to Chinese state media.

A South Korean man breached a gate at Camp Humphreys over the weekend but was captured and turned over to national police, a spokesman said.

The talks — ostensibly focused on North Korea joining next month’s Winter Olympics in nearby Pyeongchang — are the best chance to resurrect negotiations on Kim’s nuclear weapons program since President Donald Trump took office.

Many of Ron Fleming’s fellow soldiers have spent the past five decades trying to forget what they saw — and did — in Vietnam. But Fleming, now 74, has spent most of that time trying to hold on to it

President Donald Trump expressed misgivings about his administration's infrastructure plan Friday at Camp David, telling Republican leaders that building projects through public-private partnerships is unlikely to work - and that it may be better for the government to pursue a different path.