Новости за 08.02.2017

Former U.S. Army interpreter Qismat Amin waited nearly four years for his special immigrant visa. He lived in hiding after receiving death threats from the Taliban for helping American troops.

Seven Russian sailors and a Ukrainian have been kidnapped from a cargo ship in Nigerian waters, the Russian embassy in the West African nation said Wednesday.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sought to convince President Donald Trump in a telephone call that arming Kurdish fighters in Syria to fight the Islamic State would be counterproductive to the military effort and damaging to already strained ties between the United States and Turkey, Turkish and American officials said Wednesday.

Doris Lockness’ aviation career spanned six decades, and included a stint with the Women Airforce Service Pilots during World War II, when she became one of the first women to fly United States military aircraft.

After amassing personal experiences that could rival movie character Forrest Gump, Norm Johnson will receive an honorary diploma from the San Diego County Office of Education and Operation Recognition Veterans Diploma Project.

The suspected mastermind of the Sept. 11 terror attacks wrote former President Barack Obama in a long suppressed letter that America brought the 9/11 attacks on itself for years of foreign policy that killed innocent people across the world.

The alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 terror attacks wrote former President Barack Obama in a long suppressed letter that America brought the 9/11 attacks on itself for years of foreign policy that killed innocent people across the world.

President Donald Trump's assertion that the media often fails to cover terrorist attacks is false, but he's hardly alone in making the claim. The statement is just the latest by Trump to echo a website known for trafficking in dubious allegations of plots and cover-ups.

The nuclear-powered attack submarine USS New Hampshire was commissioned Oct. 25, 2008 at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, where it has arrived for maintenance work.

Civilians with expertise in cybersecurity could be directly commissioned into the Army with a rank up to colonel to help the service improve its expanding cyber domain operations under a Pentagon pilot program authorized in recent weeks.

The list itself was created to bolster the case for Trump's executive order restricting immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries and suspending the U.S. refugee program. But that ban would not have prevented any of the terrorist attacks on the list that occurred in the United States. Here's a closer look at some of the attacks on the list:

The Vietnam War has set the stage for many classic war movies, chief among them Stanley Kubrick’s “Full Metal Jacket” and Francis Ford Coppola’s magnum opus, “Apocalypse Now.”

A small Israeli company appears to be plugging a big hole in the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s technical capabilities — and the relationship raises questions about the bureau’s evolving role in cybersecurity.

A House committee pledged Tuesday to closely oversee changes in technology at the Department of Veterans Affairs, after the agency has spent billions of dollars in recent years patching a decades-old system.

A bipartisan group of senators wants President Donald Trump to get approval from Congress before easing U.S. sanctions against Russia.

The Air Force says 18 elephant seal pups have been lounging with their mothers on a remote small beach surrounded by cliffs on the south end of the Central Coast base.

For the last few months, Zika has been out of sight and out of mind. Does that mean you should stop worrying about it? Here's what the experts have to say.

Martha E. Williamson Frye of Latrobe died of cancer Sunday. She was 81. She spent the Korean War as a communication specialist with the Air Force until her marriage. But she never gave up the military lifestyle.

President Donald Trump recently told Republican members of Congress that they were about to make beautiful legislative music together.

Amid the escalating national clash over immigration, new cases have emerged in federal court in South Florida showing how five undocumented immigrants from Mexico and Guatemala, all with criminal records, had been previously deported and returned undetected across the southwest border.

The nation’s top Homeland Security official portrayed himself Tuesday as a steward of President Donald Trump’s vision for border security as he laid out a path to fruition for some of Trump’s most bombastic campaign promises.

Estonia has teamed up with the U.S. Secret Service ahead of its first European Union presidency to train local officials to handle cyber threats - the greatest of which comes from Russia, according to the nation's foreign intelligence service.

As a populist with big ambitions, Trump needs a powerful administrative state to accomplish the things he wants to accomplish. But after campaigning largely on resentment of the political and bureaucratic elite, he arrived in Washington at war with his own government.

there is a silver lining to Trump’s ill-informed tweeting. It does put the military and prime contractors on notice that the new president isn’t taking anything for granted in terms of what has been a far-too-cozy producer-customer relationship for decades.

The battalion commander Lt. Col. John Popiak said members of the new companies had been working on missions for the last couple of years but said the new units allow more unified support for day-to-day operations.