Новости за 06.06.2017

Federal authorities have blamed pilot error for a Delta Air Lines jet landing at Ellsworth Air Force Base instead of Rapid City Regional Airport last year, noting that the flight crew had been cautioned that the two airports are close and easy to confuse.

They served in some of the horrific battles of World War II. One was there for the Normandy Landing on June 6, 1944. Another participated in the Battle of Okinawa. On Tuesday, they were honored in their nation's capital for their sacrifices.

The Valiant’s crew seized five drug-laden vessels with almost 5 tons of cocaine during its deployment in the Eastern Pacific Ocean off Central and South America as part of a Joint Interagency Task Force South partnership.

A retired U.S. Navy commander in Hawaii charged in a growing corruption scandal involving a Malaysian defense contractor was expected to plead guilty Tuesday to lying to investigators.

Ceremonies will be held Saturday in Galveston to commission the Navy warship named for Gabrielle Giffords, the former Arizona congresswoman who was shot in 2011 in Tucson, Arizona. She survived the assassination attempt.

Officials said the event and the memorial it will help produce are intended to mark the tragedy in a tangible way and continue supporting the victims' families.

The Army blames pilot error for the 2015 crash of a Black Hawk helicopter in Colorado that injured four crew members and destroyed the aircraft.

Echoing complaints made recently by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Chrystia Freeland told Canada's House of Commons that Washington has decided to forfeit its position of leadership on many issues, forcing Canada to invest in its own armed forces to defend liberal democracy.

Adnan Khashoggi, a Saudi middleman-for-hire who amassed huge wealth and influence peddling everything from American weapons to favors for Riyadh's rulers and CIA spymasters, only to see his fortunes collapse amid the Iran-contra affair and other scandals, died on June 6 at a hospital in London. He was 81, by most accounts.

A rusted fragment of the battleship USS Arizona sunk at Pearl Harbor, a woman's munitions plant uniform and ration books all tell the complex story of life on the homefront in a new exhibit at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans.

As officials from around the world gathered in Kabul for a peace conference, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said that far more people were killed in last week's massive truck-bomb explosion than initially reported - more than 150, making it the deadliest attack in the capital in years.

United States warplanes attacked fighters backing the Syrian government as they moved too close to a small base where American troops train anti-Islamic State fighters, Pentagon officials said Tuesday.

Cities are pushing back on the possibility of losing millions of dollars in U.S. anti-terrorism grants under President Donald Trump's spending plan — the third straight White House that has moved to cut the funding.

Based on a true story, “Megan Leavey” is a unique movie about war. It’s a story of heroism, sacrifice, and connection forged on the battlefield, but it’s remarkable in how the story it tells is so deeply personal that it obfuscates the political. The focus is on the troops, as it should be, and in this case, troops whose stories haven’t always been seen on screen - the women, and the canine.

Starting around May 2, 1944, codewords for specific parts of the "D-Day" operation began popping up as answers in the Daily Telegraph's crosswords. The strange coincidence led British intelligence to eventually question the puzzles' creator.

A report from Vets Advocacy, a non-profit group created to oversee the development, accuses the VA of stalling development of a model community for 1,200 homeless veterans on its West Los Angeles campus.

U.S.-backed Syrian fighters began pushing into the Islamic State’s self-declared capital of Raqqa on Tuesday, opening a long-anticipated battle that could put American troops closer to the front lines than in any operation in Syria so far, Pentagon officials said.

Military officials tell The Associated Press that the Army will triple the amount of bonuses it's paying this year to more than $380 million, including new incentives to woo reluctant soldiers to re-enlist.

An American who traveled undetected into Islamic State-controlled Syria and fled three months later says that he was "curious" about life under the terrorist regime.

British police on Tuesday named the third London Bridge attacker as an Italian national of Moroccan descent, and Italian officials said they had passed on their concerns about him to British intelligence officials last year.

As an actor and military technical adviser, Dale Dye has been the driving force behind some of the most beloved and revered war epics. Now he wants to step behind the camera.

Want to know more about why the battle for Raqqa is important to American interests in the region? Read this short breakdown of the major facts regarding the fight for the Islamic State's stronghold.

Batman is the superhero with the calling-card beam of light, but Wonder Woman sent a signal over the weekend that even Hollywood couldn’t miss.

The Russian military said it scrambled a fighter jet Tuesday to intercept and escort a U.S. strategic bomber flying over the Baltic alongside the Russian border.

The U.S. Air Force's top general says he's determined to avoid excessive secrecy during development of the service's new B-21 bomber, citing its predecessor as a cautionary tale.