Новости за 14.01.2017

Air Force Master Sgt. Greg Gibbs was awarded Friday the Distinguished Flying Cross – one of the highest service medals awarded – at a ceremony held at Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M.

The Obama administration is resisting a federal judge’s order for a copy of the Senate “Torture Report,” saying the damning Senate study of the CIA’s secret post-9/11 prison network is not the government’s to give the court.

The DODEA-Europe season is simply too short to allow for any significant downtime, so many wrestlers tried to stay sharp during the winter holiday.

It was the dead of night when Iraqi commandos advanced into the neighborhood deep in eastern Mosul.

A missile testing facility on Kauai won’t be converted to defend Hawaii against North Korean threats in the short term, with the Pentagon instead looking at installing a medium-range discrimination radar to track and identify enemy missiles to better protect the state.

Cobras prevail on Friday, with Panthers winning on Saturday in weekend that saw a lot of action on the courts and mats.

A federal judge has ordered a drug lord convicted in the 1985 killings of a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent and a Mexican government pilot to pay relatives of the victims nearly $1 million in compensation, officials said Friday.

As a young Navy lieutenant, he commanded a Swift boat along a stretch of Vietnam's Bay Hap River, where he leapt ashore after an ambush to pursue a fleeing Viet Cong with a grenade launcher and shot him dead. It could have been 1969 again as Secretary of State John Kerry, who received a Silver Star for his heroics, revisited the site Saturday and came face to face with a Viet Cong soldier who had taken part in the ambush.

Braced for protests by 99 groups and a new “global terrorist environment,” security officials plan to protect the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump with buses, dump trucks and heavy vehicles loaded with cement to thwart anyone who might try to plow vehicles through the crowds.

Islamic State militants launched their biggest assault in a year on government-held areas of the contested city of Deir el-Zour Saturday, attacking from several fronts and triggering intense fighting in the eastern region bordering Iraq, the Syrian government and opposition activists said.

A Turkish court has remanded in custody two Chinese citizens over their alleged links to a deadly gun attack on an Istanbul nightclub.

Polish leaders welcomed U.S. troops to their country Saturday, with the defense minister expressing gratitude for their arrival and calling it the fulfillment of a dream Poles have had for decades.

Before he took office in 2008, Barack Obama vowed to end America’s conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. During his second term, he pledged to take the country off what he called a permanent war footing. But Obama leaves a very different legacy as he prepares to hand his commander-in-chief responsibilities to Donald Trump.

Over the past year, the leader of the Bosnian Serb entity, Milorad Dodik, has repeatedly questioned the need to keep Bosnia united under the formula established under the 1995 Dayton Agreement.

In December, President Barack Obama's top national security advisers encouraged Britain and France to move forward on a long-delayed resolution that would sanction the Syrian government and the Islamic State for their use of chemical weapons. But the two allies wavered, repeatedly delaying to put the resolution to a vote. They backpedaled before Christmas, again before the New Year, and again in early January.

When about 300 Marines deploy to Helmand this spring, they will be returning to a province where hundreds of U.S. servicemembers died over more than a decade to subdue the Taliban. Now the situation has deteriorated so significantly there are fears the province could fall to the Taliban.

A former high school military instructor in Pennsylvania is facing charges that he had sex with an 18-year-old student.

Across China, a retrograde strain of populist nationalism is gaining strength as the ruling Communist Party intensifies its control over history and ideology. Those who question the party's interpretations find their careers and reputations threatened, while their persecutors receive tacit and sometimes outright support from the authorities.

A Thai air force pilot has died when his fighter jet crashed at an air show during the country's Children's Day.

At a renewable energy demonstration at Twentynine Palms Marine Corps base, a Marine recharged his radio's batteries simply by walking, while others examined a rocket artillery system and a drone — both powered by the sun. Many such events have taken place at military bases across the country as part of the Defense Department's shift away from fossil fuels under the Obama administration.

Lawmakers have introduced a measure calling for the Muslim Brotherhood, one of the oldest Islamist organizations in the Middle East, to be designated a foreign terrorist organization, and for the first time in recent years they are optimistic that the administration will sign on.

Marijuana news outlets including High Times, Merry Jane and Green Rush have hailed North Korea as a pothead paradise and maybe even the next Amsterdam of pot tourism. But, the claim that marijuana is legal in North Korea is not true: The penal code lists it as a controlled substance in the same category as cocaine and heroin.

Donald Trump is lashing out at a Georgia congressman who described the Republican as an illegitimate president.

A senior ally of German Chancellor Angela Merkel says he's open to launching a parliamentary inquiry into whether authorities made mistakes in handling the Tunisian man who drove a truck into a Christmas market in Berlin.

Russia has invited the incoming Trump administration to Syrian peace talks it is sponsoring later this month with Turkey and Iran, part of a process from which President Barack Obama's administration pointedly has been excluded.