Новости за 09.06.2017

President Donald Trump is ramping up pressure on Qatar to stop what he calls a "high level" of financial support of terrorism, even as Secretary of State Rex Tillerson tries to calm the worst diplomatic crisis in the Persian Gulf in years.

President Donald Trump accused Qatar on Friday of funding terrorism "at a very high level," and said solving the problem in the tiny Persian Gulf nation could be "the beginning of the end of terrorism."

The U.S.-led coalition in Iraq and Syria appears to have used white phosphorous-loaded munitions on at least two occasions in densely populated areas of Mosul and in the Islamic State's de facto capital of Raqqa, according to videos posted online and human rights groups.

Vice President Mike Pence says suburban Atlanta Republicans must elect Karen Handel to Congress to help President Donald Trump or risk a loss that could help hand House control back to Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi. While in Georgia, Pence also met with troops at Dobbins Air Reserve Base, outside Atlanta.

The recently-discovered ashes of Elizabeth Crump Enders, a Red Cross volunteer during World War I, will be buried next to her husband Gordon Enders, a veteran of three American wars, on June 30.

The USS George H.W. Bush has moved to the eastern Mediterranean and is launching air attacks against the Islamic State, the Navy said.

Trump’s defenders are arguing that Comey acted unlawfully and in violation of executive privilege. Neither claim is correct.

The former FBI director’s testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday was a feast of contradiction and self-serving showmanship.

The Air Force on Friday temporarily stopped flying F-35 fighter jets at Luke Air Force Base in Arizona in response to a series of incidents in which pilots reported symptoms of hypoxia, or oxygen deprivation.

Terrorist attacks in major Iranian cities are rare, which is one reason the near-simultaneous assaults Wednesday in Tehran were so remarkable.

We hardly invented leaking, but millennials are especially well-suited to the tactic. It’s a squirt gun we can use on our leaders when they’ve stepped out of line.

The pilot of a Bulgarian military helicopter has died after the chopper crashed into the Black Sea during a tactical drill.

Never heard of Harry Styles? No reason that you should. But Twitter functions equally as a news service for our president and for a British pop star of considerable talent but no particular relevance to grown-ups.

Inside a mosque in the college town of Eugene, a half-dozen men prostrated themselves on a carpet while another man led the midday prayers. Over their melodic recitation came a tapping sound as a locksmith installed higher-grade locks on the front door.

A forensic investigator who examined computers owned by a teenager who prosecutors say was coaxed by text messages from his girlfriend into killing himself has testified that the teen searched suicide methods.

The Pentagon said Friday that tensions have dropped near a U.S. training base in southern Syria just one day after U.S.-led coalition troops attacked Iran-backed militiamen supporting the Syrian government for the third time in a month. U.S. defense officials credited an unlikely source – Russia.

The Bitburg Barons will soon take their place in DODEA Europe lore as Bitburg High School in Germany closes next week after 60 years.

Twelve employees of a Democrat-linked group focused on mobilizing black voters in Indiana are accused of submitting fake or fraudulent voter registration applications ahead of last year's general election in order to meet quotas, according to charging documents filed Friday.

Army veteran Michael Sandknop was fired in 2014, within a week of filing what he considers a whistleblower complaint alleging that he wasn’t provided the proper tools and equipment to produce a monthly TV show about the Guard, and that the working atmosphere at the public affairs unit was toxic. A report made public Wednesday says Sandknop was illegally fired from his job with the Guard.

Saying North Korea poses a “very serious and urgent threat,” South Korea’s national security adviser said the new government will abide by the agreement with the United States on deploying a controversial missile-defense system.

Fourteen countries have converged on the Baltic Sea for BALTOPS, a two-week maritime exercise designed to strengthen nations’ military teamwork and combined defense capability.

The United Nation's children agency warned Friday that the fight for the Islamic State group's stronghold of Raqqa in northern Syria is threatening the lives of more than 40,000 children, as overnight airstrikes on the city claimed the lives of more than a dozen people.

The $244 million test of the rocket by Orbital ATK Inc. and the Raytheon Corp."hit-to-kill" warhead it released "mimicked that of an actual operational scenario," Army Lt. Col. Roger Cabiness, a spokesman for the Defense Department testing office, said in a statement.

Iranian leaders on Friday accused the United States and Saudi Arabia of supporting the Islamic State-claimed dual attacks that killed 17 people in Tehran this week, as thousands of Iranians attended a funeral ceremony for the victims.

Jihadists launched an attack on a United Nations camp in northern Mali, killing three peacekeepers from the West African nation of Guinea and wounding several others, officials said Friday.