Новости за 17.02.2017

The Pentagon says it sees signs that the Islamic State group is preparing for the loss of its de facto capital in Raqqa, Syria.

Between us, we’ve spent 80 years working in Congress and we know something about effective constituent communications. There are a handful of unwritten rules that can amplify your voice in these tempestuous times.

Do the Calexiteers realize that they are channeling Southern slave-holding secessionists?

German soldiers operating in Lithuania were targeted in a “fake news” attack that accused the troops of raping an underage Lithuanian girl, according to German media reports.

Pentagon spies trying to get ahead of mounting cyberthreats from North Korea to Russia are seeking new technologies to help winnow down the flood of data they receive, according to a senior Defense Department intelligence official.

Republicans will repeal and replace the health care law and overhaul the tax code without Democratic help or votes, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Friday.

U.S. European Command concluded a series of classified war games this week as part of an effort to boost its combat readiness, the military said Friday.

Chancellor Angela Merkel told lawmakers she stands by her 2013 complaint that "spying among friends" is unacceptable as she testified Thursday to a committee examining alleged U.S. surveillance in Germany, as well as questionable activities by German intelligence — which she said she heard about only much later.

Ukraine's president is warning against any "appeasement" of Russia, arguing that cutting a deal with Moscow on his country would make the situation worse.

When I tell people that Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences members often fill out their Oscar ballots without seeing all the nominated work -- sometimes without seeing any of the nominated work -- they’re shocked. Shocked!

Battling multiple bombers strapped with suicide vests, Nigerian troops and civilian self-defense fighters repelled the fiercest Boko Haram extremist attack in months on the key northeastern city of Maiduguri on Friday. Nine bombers and two civilians were killed, according to witnesses, soldiers and police.

Since World War II, U.N. peacekeepers have been dispatched to 69 conflicts — civil wars, border disputes and failed states. But now they are confronting an unsettling new threat: al-Qaida.

Facebook plans to use artificial intelligence to identify posts that might promote or glorify terrorism, a move that follows growing concern about terrorists' efforts to recruit on social networks.

A few days before his 90th birthday, Henry "Shig" Sakamoto went for his regular checkup. His hearing is bad, and his back is, too. But, the doctor told Sakamoto, surviving nine decades is a feat.

An apparent gas leak at a naval base in the South African city of Durban killed six people Friday, including three members of the military, authorities said.

The Army has formally ended further environmental study of the Dakota Access oil pipeline's disputed crossing beneath a Missouri River reservoir in North Dakota.

Does our Catholic moral responsibility not extend beyond our nation’s borders? Or, are these actually foreign policy and national security questions where the moral choices are extremely complicated and not always clear?

You don’t need leaks of classified information to understand why Flynn’s dealings with an aggressive Russia were inappropriate. You just need to look at the public record.

The Islamic State group attacked a battalion of state-sponsored militia southeast of Tikrit on Friday, killing at least eight militia members, an intelligence official said.

European NATO members know now that they may have to play leading roles in future NATO operations if the action takes place in an area that’s more important to them than to the United States.

What does Trump really believe, if anything, on Russia and Israel and China? No one, including the State Department and other foreign policy and national security portions of the executive branch, has any idea.

The tournament continues with a final preliminary round Saturday morning before proceeding to the semifinals and fifth-place and third-place bouts. The slate of 14 championship matches is set to begin at 3:30 p.m.

A brutal attack on a beloved Sufi shrine that killed 88 people raised fears that the Islamic State group has become emboldened in Pakistan, aided by an army of homegrown militants benefiting from hideouts in neighboring Afghanistan, analysts and officials said Friday.

Prosecutors say a journal allegedly written by an Omaha man last year detailed how he killed an Air Force servicemember.

Prosecutors say a journal allegedly written by an Omaha man last year detailed how he killed an Air Force servicemember.