Новости за 15.03.2017

A defense attorney says five Syrians with alleged ties to the extremist Islamist State group have pleaded not guilty to charges they participated in a cross-border attack that killed seven Jordanian border guards last year.

An aide to Poland's President Andrzej Duda has dismissed concerns about a wave of resignations in Poland's armed forces, saying they have no negative effect on the country's defense.

A suicide bomber detonated his explosives' vest inside the main judicial building in the Syrian capital on Wednesday, killing at least 30 people and wounding many others, state media said.

Three servicemembers assigned to a special operations unit were killed after a single-engine reconnaissance and surveillance plane crashed in eastern New Mexico during a training flight, the Air Force said.

Navy officials vowed Tuesday to crack down on “toxic” behavior after signs that the Marine Corps nude-photo-sharing scandal has widened, with female sailors at dozens of commands targeted.

Three servicemembers were killed after a single-engine reconnaissance and surveillance plane crashed in eastern New Mexico during a training flight, the Air Force said.

No president in recent history has worked harder to publicly associate himself with the U.S. military than Donald Trump.

Okinawa-based U.S. servicemembers have joined Japanese troops in central Japan for training that includes air assaults from MV-22 Ospreys and CH-47 Chinook helicopters.

The seven-day trip to Guam and Iwo Jima is in recognition of being named division winner of the Young Marine of the Year award.

Athletes from the trial will be selected to compete in the Department of Defense Warrior Games June 30 in Chicago. There, Marines will compete against teams from the Army, Navy/Coast Guard, Air Force and the U.S. Special Operations Command.

Earl Granville remembers the explosion that killed Maj. Scott Hagerty and SPC Derek Holland in June 2008 near Zormat, Afghanistan. That same blast from an improvised explosive device cost him a leg. Wednesday morning he and a contingent were to pay their respects to Hagerty and Holland with a 7.5-mile walk along US Highway 177.

After losing the competition for new tankers, Fairchild Air Force Base should win any competition for the old tankers leaving the first regular home of the KC-46A, members of the state’s congressional delegation said Tuesday.

A lawsuit claims that the sheriff’s office was negligent when it destroyed David and Gretchen Jessen's home, violating their state and federal constitutional rights, in order to remove “a single, solitary, unarmed, homeless, hungry person whose only theft from the Jessens’ home was one-half tomato, an ice cream bar and some milk.”

Somewhere high above the clouds over Southeast Asia, three P-51 Mustang fighter-bombers patrol the skies. Leading the patrol is Lt. James Lowell Mason in his “Sweet Chariot,” the nickname he gave the plane. This image comes from an oil painting by artist Dale Adkins.

Chaplain Matthew Christensen defused a potential deadly situation by unarming a machete-wielding soldier during a suicide attempt that was on the verge of turning into multiple homicides. "Nothing but fear, and I believe the work of of the Holy Spirit, moved me into a position where I could physically control the soldier."

Officials on both sides of the border say in just one month, the closure has resulted in hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost trade, and tons of perishable goods have rotted in stranded trucks.

Fort Wainwright soldier Tevyn Alonza Davis, 22, is charged with second-degree murder in the case that left 27-year-old Michael Jeremy Hodges dead and injured two others, according to the Fairbanks Police Department.

North Korea will be a top priority on all Tillerson's stops. The State Department says Tillerson wants to discuss "fresh" approaches. Administration officials say all options are on the table, including military ones.

Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson sent a message to the fleet’s leadership Tuesday outlining a zero-tolerance stance for the behavior that’s led to a wide-ranging nude-photo-sharing scandal that has threatened to undermine the U.S. military.

Maine lawmakers gave preliminary approval Tuesday to a bill that ensures several hundred veterans can continue receiving medical care at a New Hampshire military base despite Maine’s noncompliance with the federal Real ID law.

South Korean prosecutors said Wednesday they plan to summon and question ousted President Park Geun-hye next week over a corruption scandal that removed her from office.

White House instructions to the State Department to look for cuts totaling more than a third of its budget include orders for what potentially are even higher reductions in U.S. payments to the United Nations.

The U.S. Navy is enlisting the help of seals — but not the kind of highly trained special operatives with whom it usually associates.

China is Pyongyang's most important diplomatic ally and economic partner, and has been under pressure from the U.S. to use its influence to rein in actions by the North seen as provocative.

The Golden Retriever puppies are among the first of many litters that the nonprofit Warrior Canine Connection hopes will be born at its new location, a sprawling farm in Boyds, Md.