Новости за 08.04.2017

The soldier was killed while conducting operations against the Islamic State’s offshoot in Nangarhar province, U.S. Navy Capt. Bill Slavin, a U.S. Forces-Afghanistan spokesman said in a statement posted to Twitter.

A U.S. military spokesman says Afghan and international forces have reduced the territory controlled by Islamic State militants in Afghanistan by two-thirds and killed around half the affiliate's fighters in the last two years.

Administrators say a 137-year-old Missouri military academy and college will close after next month because of declining enrollment, rising costs and aging facilities.

Sick Vietnam War sailors seeking federal disability benefits because of exposure to Agent Orange hit two familiar roadblocks Wednesday — congressional worries over the cost and a reluctant U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

Warplanes on Saturday struck the Syrian town where a chemical attack had killed scores of people earlier this week, as Turkey warned that a retaliatory U.S. missile strike on a Syrian air base would only be "cosmetic" if greater efforts are not made to remove President Bashar Assad from power.

Albania's Defense ministry has agreed to open Sazan Island, a military base still under its management, to tourists during the summer.

Facebook this week said it is taking new steps to crack down on its network's "revenge porn" problem, including a new process that prevents users from reposting intimate images shared without the subject's consent.

Germany has launched a new military unit dedicated to thwarting cyberattacks and responding if necessary.

A Vietnam veteran from Illinois will receive a long-lost Purple Heart from the state treasurer after the medal was turned over to the government as unclaimed property.

A former analyst for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has been sentenced to a year and a half in federal prison for making a gun silencer at his home.

Stalled talks aimed at reunifying ethnically divided Cyprus appeared to be back on track Tuesday after a United Nations envoy said negotiations will resume next week after a nearly two-month break.

Spanish police investigating a money laundering case involving former Syrian vice president Rifaat Assad — the exiled uncle of Syria's current leader — raided properties and blocked dozens of bank accounts belonging or linked to him and his relatives on Tuesday.

During Jared Kushner's visit to Iraq this week, one man stood out from the military uniforms and business suits. At a table with top Iraqi Kurdish leaders, an imposing figure in an Adidas athletic jacket sat next to President Donald Trump's trusted son-in-law and senior adviser. Meet Keith Schiller, Trump's former bodyguard.

More than 400 icebergs have drifted into the North Atlantic shipping lanes over the past week in an unusually large swarm for this early in the season, forcing vessels to slow to a crawl or take detours of hundreds of miles.

Somalia's new president on Thursday declared the country a war zone and replaced its military and intelligence chiefs while instructing the army to prepare a new offensive against al-Shabab extremists.

Syria's state news agency says 242 opposition fighters and their families have left the last rebel-held neighborhood in the central city of Homs.

Turkey described the U.S. missile attack on an air base as a "cosmetic intervention" unless it removes President Bashar Assad from power. Iran called Saturday for the formation of an international fact-finding committee to investigate the chemical weapons attack in a northern Syrian town that killed scores of people and trigged the American attack.

The FBI has been reviewing the handling of thousands of terrorism-related tips and leads from the past three years to make sure they were properly investigated and no obvious red flags were missed, The Associated Press has learned.

Norway and Turkey — NATO's northern and southern frontiers in Europe — have been pillars of the Western military alliance for more than 60 years. But the diplomatic temperature between the two has fallen steadily since Turkey recalled dozens of military officers as suspects in an aborted coup — and Norway became the first nation to grant some of them asylum.

The suspect in Stockholm's deadly beer truck attack is a 39-year-old native of Uzbekistan who had been on authorities' radar previously, Swedish officials said Saturday. The prime minister urged citizens to "get through this" and strolled through the streets of the capital to chat with residents.

One of Israel's biggest political parties has a key election coming up. But they had to delay it. Party bosses quickly ran into that age-old problem of trying to schedule democracy around Britney Spears concerts. Rookie mistake.

A Mexican cartel leader once allied with Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, the world's most notorious drug lord, was sentenced Wednesday in Washington, D.C., to life in prison and a $529 million forfeiture.

As a budget shortfall in Texas threatens cuts to colleges and Medicaid, a costly border security operation is proving largely untouchable despite President Donald Trump's promises to build a wall and the plunging number of people caught illegally entering the U.S.

Just five people were eating dinner on a recent weeknight at a Texas church that is a stopping point for newly arrived immigrants on the U.S.-Mexico border. On a typical night last year, hundreds of immigrants might come through the church.

The United States is vowing to keep up the pressure on Syria after the intense nighttime wave of missile strikes from U.S. ships, despite the prospect of escalating Russian ill will that could further inflame one of the world's most vexing conflicts.