Новости за 28.02.2017

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville has launched SALUTE, a national honor society that honors military and veteran students for their service and academic performance.

U.S. and other foreign troops don’t plan to reoccupy the newly liberated Mosul airport, a coalition ground force commander in Iraq said.

President Donald Trump's push to increase defense spending is starting with a $30 billion amendment to this year's budget that may boost funding for war supplies, readiness and depots, but also possibly for Boeing's Super Hornet jet, according to officials.

A Clearwater, Florida-based military contractor has big plans for 2017 which include hiring about 800 people worldwide, doubling its annual revenue and moving its headquarters to Tampa's Westshore area.

Turkey is seeking U.S. support to lead a ground offensive against Islamic State's main stronghold in Syria, a Turkish official said, a move that could give President Recep Tayyip Erdogan more influence in the conflict and undermine Kurdish groups linked to separatists he's fighting at home.

The heavy-set man got out of a taxi one night last September and headed for the lobby bar of the swank Wynn Macau — a quiet place, where women are often in evening dresses and gamblers can relax with $300 Cuban cigars. He was dressed casually. There were no bodyguards, no flashy women. It wasn't what you'd expect of a man once tipped to be the next dictator of North Korea.

Faced with a potentially protracted war against the Islamic State, aging fighter jets and a shrinking force of pilots, the U.S. Air Force is examining the adoption of a new fleet of "light-attack" planes.

Even as President Donald Trump seeks to improve relations with Russia, the State Department is countering overtures by Moscow in one of its former satellite regions, the Balkans.

A life-size screen connects visitors in Washington at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum to a rotating cast of Syrian refugees in Berlin and Jordan, and Iraqi refugees in Erbil. Roughly 1,600 visitors have used the portal since it arrived in December.

Last week, German police arrested a 26-year-old man on suspicion of plotting an Islamist-inspired attack. The man, identified only as "Sascha L.," is accused of plotting to lure police officers and soldiers into a trap. When authorities searched his apartment in Northeim, Lower Saxony, they found chemicals and electronics that could be used to make explosives.

The Navy wants to power up what could be one of the largest solar farms in the state at the Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai, where ongoing missile testing requires unwavering power for flight tests that process huge amounts of data.

Russia and China have vetoed a Western-backed U.N. resolution that would have imposed sanctions on 21 Syrian individuals, organizations and companies allegedly involved in chemical weapons attacks in the war-ravaged country.

French media are reporting that an 18-year-old woman has been detained in northern France in a suspected attack plot.

Gary Sinise and the Lt. Dan Band have performed more than 100 times for troops and veterans around the world since 2004. The band will perform Saturday at Fort Bragg and on March 5th as part of Camp Lejeune's March Meltdown festival.

Basketball season might have just ended, but McNeely Gym will be full of competitors playing a variation on hoops this weekend.

North Carolina's Department of Transportation is set to designate N.C. 24 from Harnett County to the coast as the "Gold Star Highway." Signs noting the designation will be placed along the route.

Two explosions occurred at a military facility in central Serbia Tuesday, killing at least one person and injuring 25 others, Serbia's Defense Ministry said. Three people are missing.

A former Marine and his wife say the scene inside a Veterans Administration hospital in Durham, North Carolina, was so shocking that they took pictures and posted them to Facebook.

Seaman Robert Colton Wright, who crashed through Gate 2 of Oceana Naval Air Station late Friday, made it all the way to the hangar for the squadron he worked for before he was shot and killed by a master at arms, U.S. Navy Fleet Forces Command said.

Even the biggest snafu in Academy Awards history could not snap the ABC telecast out if its recent ratings slump.

The Bataan was initially scheduled to depart from Norfolk Naval Station Tuesday but will instead leave Wednesday. Other ships in the Bataan Amphibious Ready Group left Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story in Virginia Beach on Saturday.

Places to celebrate St. Patrick's Day in Japan.

Bella Bulmer’s dad died in his Army barracks, killed by a stranger. Her mother, Beth Bulmer, died almost exactly eight years later on a dark Tulare County road in California, the victim of a still-unsolved hit-and-run. Now, the 55-year-old grandmother who’s raising Bella in California fights for veterans benefits while she hopes for a break in the case that haunts her.

Turkish officials say authorities have arrested three alleged Islamic State militants who are suspected of having trained to become suicide bombers.

Austria's intelligence services on Tuesday confirmed a news report that they have tracked down a U.S.-based Turkish hacker who attacked several government websites. The report in the daily Kurier cited the military intelligence service as saying that a Turkish activist directed the attacks from his home in Bowling Green, Kentucky.