Новости за 27.12.2019

As another harsh winter approaches, worry is sharpening the seasonal chill in this bustling but bedraggled city of 4 million surrounded by white-capped mountains.

Naval Air Station Meridian will begin the new year with a policy change that gives more veterans and their caregivers access to the base and privileges.

Families of almost 150 U.S. service members and civilians who were killed or wounded in terror attacks in Afghanistan sued a group of Western contractors involved in the nation's reconstruction for allegedly bribing the Taliban for protection for years.

Research has revealed extensive post-traumatic stress among Ebola survivors, their caregivers and witnesses to the widespread death in West Africa. During his brief stay in Sierra Leone, Preston Gorman was all three.

Most federal employees in the Washington-Baltimore area will receive a 3.52% raise in January, the largest increase in the locality-based pay system for white-collar federal workers, under an order President Donald Trump signed Thursday.

Santa Claus is looking over drivers in a Massachusetts town according to a creative sign made by the local police department.

Our aim is to be able to abstract parts from the printers that make them, allowing consistent replication as printer technology changes.

The result is that we designed a force that was incapable of fighting without American support. Even worse, we failed to address the endemic corruption that would undermine the legitimacy of both Afghan forces and the central government in the eyes of the Afghan people.

U.S. troops have curtailed some operations in Iraq in recent months over concerns of a heightened threat of attack from Iranian proxy groups who operate in the country.

A U.S. contractor and an Iraqi federal police officer were wounded in a rocket attack that struck a munitions storage facility on a coalition base in northern Iraq Friday evening, a security official said.

Some soldiers deployed to northern Iraq got more than stocking stuffers this week when senior leaders recognized their contributions to the coalition battling the Islamic State.

The advisory said such kits could pose a security risk. It also warned military personnel are being targeted by the companies with discounts encouraging them to purchase the at-home kits.

The defeat of its caliphate early this year left some 10,000 suspected Islamic State fighters in detention — more than 2,000 of them foreign — and governments around the world have struggled with questions of whether and how to bring them home.

Defense lawyer Edward MacMahon filed a Christmas Eve withdrawal request in Manhattan federal court that said Lev Parnas' "apparent ability to fund his defense has diminished."

Coast Guard crews were searching by water and sky early Friday morning for a helicopter carrying seven people after it failed to return from a tour off Kauai’s Na Pali Coast in Hawaii.

The tide of the battle did not clearly turn until Gen. George S. Patton’s Third Army broke through to the 101st Airborne Division, surrounded by the Wehrmacht in the crossroads town of Bastogne, on the day after Christmas.

China on Friday launched a Long March 5 rocket from the island province of Hainan, a key step in its ambitions to reach Mars and cement its place as a major power in space exploration.

Secret Service agents, law enforcement and on-site security can't – and shouldn't – be the only safeguards to keep trespassers at bay, whether or not President Donald Trump is in town, they said. Mar-a-Lago staff must be trained to know how to spot someone who doesn't belong.

Emma Sanchez waited patiently in line at the foot of a bridge leading across the Rio Grande and into Texas, one of tens of thousands of people stuck on Mexico's northern border seeking political asylum in the United States.

While the accounts of the witnesses aren’t new, hearing those accounts from the witnesses themselves is. The episode of The New York Times' "The Weekly" presents these SEALs’ stories in their own words and voices, framing their actions as courageously going against the traditional brotherhood of the Navy SEALs.

In a deepening proxy war, Turkey aims to send its Navy to protect Tripoli, while its troops train and coordinate forces of Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj.

The Bek Air aircraft, identified as a 23-year-old Fokker 100, hit a concrete wall and a two-story building soon after departing from Almaty, Kazakhstan's largest city and former capital, airport officials said.

President Barham Salih has said he refused to appoint Asaad al-Eidani because of broad opposition by the anti-government protest movement.

A former leader of the influential student union at the University of Abidjan, Guillaume Soro surfaced as the political mastermind of rebels who seized the north of the country following a failed attempt to oust then-President Laurent Gbagbo in 2002.

The helicopter was carrying a pilot and six passengers, two of whom were believed to be minors, the release said.