Новости за 31.03.2017

Two Somali women living in the United States who collected money for a terrorist group will go to prison for more than a decade.

In defiance of Congress, the Navy has granted a retroactive promotion, back pay and a bigger pension to an admiral whom lawmakers forced to retire last year after multiple investigations found he had retaliated against whistleblowers, records show.

Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, S.C. will resume soil testing at Laurel Bay homes in April amid an ongoing probe of whether health concerns can be tied to the military housing.

When the Taliban officially kick off their new fighting season within weeks, they’ll pick up where they left off last year: threatening several provincial capitals and stretching Afghan forces to their limit.

An Army medic from Massachusetts who was reported missing in action during the Korean War in 1950 will never be lost again.

Chief Warrant Officer 2 Jose Eduardo Lopez-Cobena, 40, of Colorado Springs, Colo., a soldier stationed at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, drowned in a death that is under investigation, the military said Friday.

A Michigan soldier who was killed while serving in Afghanistan is being honored by the state, which has named part of a highway in his memory.

Federal prosecutors say a South Carolina man who tried to join the Islamic State group has been arrested.

Pentagon acquisition reforms imposed by the Obama administration and Congress helped rein in the costs of major weapons, although the savings are leveling off, congressional auditors have found.

Two drinking water wells shut down at Wright-Patterson because of contamination concerns a year ago could be put back into operation in May, base environmental officials say.

Canada will extend its current military contribution to the fight against the Islamic State group in Iraq until June 30.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Friday delivered a two-month deadline for NATO states to craft plans for boosting defense spending to agreed levels, but stopped short of spelling out what the consequences will be if allies fall short.

The U.S. Air Forces in Europe jazz band is wrapping up a 10-day tour of Ukraine to mark 25 years of diplomatic relations between Washington and Kiev.

The Pentagon has updated its criteria for combat awards including establishing two new letter devices aimed at distinguishing the genesis of certain awards earned for service in a combat zone or for engaging an enemy through remote actions.

The public does not have a right to see graphic videos of a former Guantanamo Bay inmate being force-fed during a hunger strike because they are classified and could harm national security, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.

John L. Harrison Jr., who served as a World War II pilot with the famed all-black Tuskegee Airmen, has died. He was 96.

Israel will limit new settlement construction in the West Bank "when possible" to within areas already developed or at least to contiguous areas, President Benjamin Netanyahu's government announced as a gesture to President Donald Trump as it approved the first new settlement in the territory in two decades.

The new National Museum of African American History and Culture highlights hundreds of personal stories of tragedy, suffering and courage, but some of the bravest heroes are recognized in the section about military history.

With its increasing focus on deterring Moscow’s aggression in eastern Europe, the Army is upgrading 81 of its Stryker Infantry Carrier Vehicles to boost their fire power to match those of their Russian counterparts.

Japan's whaling fleet returned home Friday after killing 333 whales in the Antarctic, achieving its goal for the second year under a revised research whaling program.

Poland's Defense Minister says talks are progressing on a multi-billion-dollar deal to buy a medium-range missile defense system from U.S. arms producer Raytheon and that the deal could be signed around the end of the year if Poland's conditions are met.

A powerful car bomb exploded near a minority Shiite Muslim place of worship in the northwest town of Parachinar on Friday, killing at least 24 people and wounding over 70 others, officials said.

Air Force “hunters” are playing a key role in the wars in Iraq and Syria, using their drones for precision strikes against Islamic State targets in Mosul and conducting reconnaissance over the group’s capital in Raqqa.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Friday delivered a two-month deadline for NATO states to craft plans for boosting defense spending to agreed levels, but stopped short of spelling out what the consequences will be if allies fall short.

Late last year, two American Marxists traveled to northeastern Syria with the goal of experiencing firsthand the egalitarian utopia Syria's Kurds are seeking to build. Instead, they found themselves fighting on the front lines of a war, against the Islamic State and alongside the agents of imperialism their political convictions have taught them to despise.