Новости за 10.04.2017

U.S. and coalition airpower over Syria has taken a more defensive posture in recent days to protect U.S. and partner forces from retaliation after warships hit a Syrian airfield Thursday.

While it's true that some 1,300 tons of Syria's declared chemical weapons and precursors were removed under a U.S.-Russia agreement, serious concerns always existed that not all such armaments or production facilities were declared and destroyed or otherwise made unusable.

A brief marriage and quick estrangement came before a man walked into his wife's elementary school class and opened fire without saying a word, killing her and an 8-year-old student and wounding a 9-year-old student before fatally shooting himself, authorities said.

A husband opened fire on his wife Monday in a San Bernardino elementary school classroom, killing her and a student in a murder-suicide that spread panic across a city still recovering emotionally from a terrorist attack at a community center just 15 months ago.

Two adults were killed and two students wounded Monday in an apparent murder-suicide inside a San Bernardino elementary school that spread panic across a city still recovering emotionally from a terrorist attack at a community center just 15 months ago.

Faced with pilots leaving the Air Force in droves for the airlines, top generals are considering the option of forcing some to stay in the service against their will, a senior Air Force general told CQ Roll Call.

Space Fence will be able to detect objects as small as marbles at the roughly 250-mile height of the International Space Station. Such a small speck of debris might sound benign, but NASA has replaced space shuttle windows damaged by flying paint flecks.

Leaders from seven southern European countries condemned the Syrian regime Monday for its alleged use of chemical weapons and defended the retaliatory U.S. airstrikes.

U.S. special operators helped repel an Islamic State assault over the weekend on a small outpost in southern Syria where Americans train local forces to help fight the terrorists, Pentagon officials said Monday.

Three former employees of the Ravenna Army Ammunition Plant in Ohio have identified a plot of land where they say they helped to bury containers of a banned chemical weapon — mustard gas — shortly after the end of World War II.

Ray Evans, Douglas Munro’s shipmate, said Munro’s last words were “Did they get off (the beach)?” The official Navy account said that when told the Marines made it, Munro died with a smile on his face.

Dr. Ali Darwish collapsed and died within a few hours of being exposed to the lethal chemical agent — what doctors believe was mostly chlorine with a mix of nerve gas — used in the March 25 attack on the Latamna hospital. He was in his mid-30s and had five children and parents who depended on him.

Residents in South Sudan say the army is carrying out ethnic killings and killings of civilians in the western town of Wau.

Members of Congress are back home for a two-week recess after one of the most bitterly divided and least productive starts in recent history. A new, urgent challenge is waiting for them when they return: finding a way to set aside their anger and mistrust long enough to keep the federal government open.

Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expressed his support for Washington's determination to deter the use of chemical weapons in Syria in a telephone conversation with U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday morning.

Computer security company Symantec says the CIA's cyberespionage toolkit made public by WikiLeaks has been linked to 40 spying operations in 16 countries, an early public assessment of the intelligence agency's global hacking operations.

The Revolutionary War was at a crucial point in 1777 when a remarkable set of documents surfaced in London that cast doubt on Yankee resolve.

Commissioners in a Florida county are so tired of spending money on President Donald Trump's frequent visits to his Mar-a-Lago resort that some are suggesting a special tax be levied against the property if the federal government doesn't reimburse its costs.

The United States has concluded Russia knew in advance of Syria's chemical weapons attack last week, a senior U.S. official said Monday.

The United States has concluded Russia knew in advance of Syria's chemical weapons attack last week, a senior U.S. official said Monday.

An official says two female suicide bombers exploded near the fence surrounding the University of Maiduguri in northeastern Nigeria.

The Army’s 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, currently deployed across Europe in support of Operation Atlantic Resolve, conducted combined-arms live-fire training here on Monday to prepare for coming missions with Ukrainian and Romanian forces.

The Army’s 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, currently deployed across Europe in support of Operation Atlantic Resolve, conducted combined-arms live-fire training here on Monday to prepare for coming missions with Ukrainian and Romanian forces.

The White House says President Donald Trump has spoken with the Egyptian president following the recent church bombings to express his confidence that Egypt will do what it can "to protect Christians and all Egyptians."

U.S.-backed Syrian fighters pushed ahead in their offensive in northern Syria on Monday against members of the Islamic State group under the cover of U.S.-led coalition airstrikes getting closer to a strategic town that is home to the country's largest dam.