Новости за 05.07.2017

The jihadists of the Islamic State are finally being driven out of their two main bastions: The northern Iraqi city of Mosul and the eastern Syrian city of Raqqa. For some three years, their ability to control these two urban centers, particularly Mosul, served as warped validation of their ambitions to build a modern-day caliphate.

Keeping North Korea from having a nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missile has long been considered a key U.S. red line, and one the North has thumbed its nose at for years. Its Fourth of July ICBM launch is just the latest step in its long march toward, and maybe over, that line.

Times and dates for theaters in Japan, Okinawa and South Korea

Iraq's prime minister on Tuesday congratulated his fighters on "the big victory in Mosul" — even as fighting with Islamic State militants continued in Mosul's Old City neighborhood where Iraqi forces are about 250 meters from the Tigris River and facing increasingly fierce resistance.

An Afghan official says a woman and a small child were killed when a rocket struck their house in the capital, Kabul.

A sergeant with the 173rd Airborne Brigade has been charged in connection with the spectacular destruction of three Humvees that plummeted to the ground from a C-130 during a parachute drop in Germany last year.

Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges, who has designed the U.S. Army’s efforts to intensify operations in the Baltics and Poland since Russia’s intervention in Ukraine, will join a think tank focused on security in central and Eastern Europe when he retires in September.

Okinawa’s American Legion Wayne E. Marchand Post 28 was one of three civic organizations recognized for community service last week by the Japanese city of Naha.

The USS Nimitz aircraft carrier held a ceremony at sea Monday to remember the sailors who fought in the Battle of Leyte Gulf, which is considered to be the largest naval contest of World War II.

The Navy has kicked off naval drills with Vietnam, just days after sending a guided-missile destroyer near a South China Sea islet claimed by China, Taiwan and Vietnam.

Some 300 Islamic State fighters remain in the small patch of territory still controlled by the group in Mosul's Old City, a senior Iraqi commander said Wednesday.

The U.S. traditionally takes point in the search for common approaches to the big global issues of the day at G-20 summits. Not this time.

The U.S. traditionally takes point in the search for common approaches to the big global issues of the day at G-20 summits. Not this time.

A House committee has voted in favor of $15 million to replace temporary fabric shelters built in 2008. The new permanent metal hangars would house jets that are always on alert for the North American Aerospace Defense Command, also called NORAD.

As the U.S.-allied forces advanced into Raqqa, schisms emerged among Syrian fighters — and it is unclear how much the infighting will delay the battle for Islamic State’s Syrian capital, where thousands of civilians remain trapped, or the larger fight to vanquish the group in Syria.

The House and Senate Armed Services committees took significantly different approaches in their annual Pentagon policy bills, setting up what could be difficult negotiations this year.

The soldiers were among about 3,700 with their brigade that were deployed to South Korea in October 2016, where they trained with their allies and helped to secure the South Korean border.

The exercise came as Secretary of State Rex Tillerson confirmed that North Korea fired an ICBM on Tuesday, a move that sharply raises the stakes in the international standoff over the communist state’s nuclear weapons program.

The exercise came as Secretary of State Rex Tillerson confirmed that North Korea fired an ICBM on Tuesday, a move that sharply raises the stakes in the international standoff over the communist state’s nuclear weapons program.

The lawyer for the widow of an American soldier killed in Afghanistan said Tuesday they have filed an application so that any money paid by the Canadian government to a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner convicted of killing him will go toward the widow and another U.S. soldier injured.