Новости за 31.10.2015

A Russian aircraft carrying 224 people, including 17 children, crashed Saturday in a remote mountainous region in the Sinai Peninsula about 20 minutes after taking off from a Red Sea resort popular with Russian tourists, the Egyptian government said.

Wiesbaden takes 21-0 lead at halftime, then holds on as Lakenheath scores two touchdowns in final period.

On Nov.10, the documentary "Debt of Honor: Disabled Veterans in American History" is set to premiere nationwide on PBS. The $1 million budget film is funded by philanthropist Lois Pope.

Trailing 8-7 with less than 30 seconds to play and some 70 yards separating them from the end zone, the Panthers put together a pair of plays that saved their season and ousted the top-seeded, undefeated Royals from the playoffs.

The mother of a Marine who was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross for shielding fellow Marines from a grenade has christened the ship bearing her son's name by crashing a bottle of Champagne on its bow.

Even when President Barack Obama sent U.S. troops back to Iraq and ordered the military to stay in Afghanistan, he insisted Syria would remain off limits for American ground forces. Now he's crossed his own red line.

The United States ramped up its support for Syria's opposition with a pledge of nearly $100 million in fresh aid on Saturday. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia's top diplomat described the timing of the departure of Syrian President Bashar Assad and the withdrawal of foreign fighters as top sticking points to finding a lasting resolution to the civil war in Syria.

The U.S. government says that more than 200 tons a year of cocaine flows through Venezuela, about a third of Colombia's estimated production. The U.S has been steadily stepping up pressure on high-ranking members of Venezuela's military, police and government officials for their role in making the country an important transit zone for narcotics heading to the U.S. and Europe.

DeAndre Rosalie accounted for 332 all-purpose yards and five touchdowns, while Josh McCaw rushed for 258 yards and two scores on 24 carries.

A police officer says armed clashes between supporters of two political parties have left 11 people dead and dozens injured in southern Pakistan.

Four U.N. staff members were dismissed for sending and storing child pornography on U.N. computers — and another was dismissed for using a U.N. vehicle to transport approximately 173 kilograms of marijuana, according to a U.N. report obtained Friday.

Hillary Rodham Clinton supports the decision by President Barack Obama to deploy a small number of special operations forces to northern Syria to work with local ground forces in the fight against Islamic State militants.

Three of the four finals matches were over in two sets, but the girls singles final was one to remember.

A new batch of Hillary Rodham Clinton's emails released Friday presented a glimpse into the breadth of her personal network — a Rolodex of powerful celebrities, CEOs, political advisers and politicians that she's now tapping for her presidential campaign.

A lawyer says newly freed Guantanamo Bay prisoner Shaker Aamer wants an independent inquiry to examine whether British officials played a role in his treatment.

The building's walls are designed to withstand a missile strike and a highly secured operational room is hidden underground. France's army chiefs are moving into their new defense ministry, aimed at allowing a quicker response to the threats faced by the country — especially terrorism.

The United States' decision to send troops into Syria is an act of aggression because it does not have the government's agreement, a Syrian member of parliament said Saturday.

Survivors of a deadly nightclub fire and stampede in Romania say the lead singer of the heavy metal band on stage made a joke at first about the fire before it engulfed the basement club in downtown Bucharest.

The U.S. Air Force announced Friday that its first Large Force Exercise of military aircraft in the Powder River Training Complex area has been scheduled for Dec. 2-3.

It only took about a month of college for John Lloyd Rhodes to learn academic life wasn’t for him. “I went to UA because I wanted to play football,” Rhodes, 79, said. “I found out you had to read and study, so I joined the Marine Corps.”

Command Master Chief Gregg L. Snaza, the top enlisted sailor at Navy Region Mid-Atlantic, died this week, the U.S. Navy confirmed.

A heavy metal band's pyrotechnical show sparked a deadly fire Friday at a Bucharest nightclub, killing 27 people and injuring scores of the club's mostly youthful patrons, officials and witnesses said.

Stars and Stripes’ selection of the best Air Force photos of the week.

Navy veteran Mike O’Dell is on a mission: trying to change how plates commemorating the five branches of the armed services are issued in Florida.

Tal Abyad is a tense and troubled place. Its new Kurdish masters are seeking to assert their control over a mixed town that, at least until recently, had an Arab majority — some of whom were not entirely unhappy to be governed by the Islamic State.