Новости за 07.07.2017

Despite clinging to only a sliver of territory in Mosul, Islamic State militants managed to launch a counterattack Friday that reversed days of Iraqi army territorial gains in just a matter of hours.

The U.N. cultural agency on Friday declared the old city in the West Bank town of Hebron as a Palestinian world heritage site, a decision that outraged Israeli officials who say the move negated the deep Jewish ties to the biblical town and its ancient shrine.

More than 120 countries approved the first-ever treaty to ban nuclear weapons Friday at a U.N. meeting boycotted by all nuclear-armed nations.

For decades, summits between leaders of the world powers have been heavily anticipated affairs in which every word, handshake and facial expression is scrutinized. President Donald Trump's first face-to-face meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Hamburg, Germany, on Friday was no different.

Vietnam War pilot Dayne Smith climbed into a Cobra attack helicopter for the first time in more than 45 years at Dixon's Veterans Memorial Park on Thursday.

After years of shrinking almost everything — from the size of its fleet of airplanes and fighter squadrons to its active-duty forces — the Air Force is looking to expand, Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson said.

At long last face to face, President Donald Trump confronted Russian President Vladimir Putin directly Friday over Moscow's meddling in the 2016 presidential campaign, as the two leaders sought to use their historic first meeting to move past the issue and forge closer cooperation on Syria.

The United States and Russia struck an agreement Friday on a cease-fire in southwest Syria, crowning President Donald Trump's first meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. It is the first U.S.-Russian effort under Trump's presidency to stem Syria's six-year civil war.

The New Mexico Air National Guard’s 150th Medical Group will depart Kirtland Air Force Base on Monday for a two-week volunteer training mission to provide medical services to people in rural Louisiana.

Parts of two moving-truck containers that appeared to have traces of potentially explosive material have been sent to the state police crime lab for testing after they triggered a partial evacuation yesterday of Hanscom Air Force Base, authorities said.

On Tuesday, at Philadelphia’s Fourth of July Wawa Welcome America celebration, Operation Yellow Ribbon of South Jersey was announced as the winner of the Wawa Foundation Hero Award.

In essence, Trump called on Poland to help the United States in the struggle of Western civilization against Islamist terrorism — though at times he made it sound as if the real enemy were cultural, not political.

A Delta flight to Beijing had to return to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Thursday evening after a passenger assaulted a flight attendant, the airline said.

Ismail Royer's apparent transition illustrates what has become a nascent phenomenon in America as the struggle against radical Islamists nears the end of its second decade and more people convicted of terrorist-related crimes approach their release dates.

The United States and Russia have reached agreement on a cease-fire in southwest Syria, three U.S. officials said Friday as President Donald Trump held his first meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Veterans Affairs made public a list of employee terminations, demotions and suspensions that it will update weekly, which agency officials said is an attempt at transparency following action by Congress to give the VA secretary unprecedented disciplinary power.

Short of agreements on everything from Syria to Ukraine, the fate of a pair of Russian diplomatic compounds seized by the United States last year offers Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin one possible way to start repairing a relationship wracked by disagreements over some of the world's worst problems and Moscow's meddling in the U.S. presidential election.

A diplomatic standoff between Qatar and four other Arab nations that accuse it of sponsoring terrorism has turned a spotlight on an opaque network of charities and prominent figures freely operating in the tiny Gulf country.

The two Tunisian former Guantanamo Bay detainees call their homeland an open-air prison and yearn for escape, even back to the U.S. detention center in Cuba. At least two other Tunisians freed from Guantanamo made their way to Syria, and another has seemingly vanished.

The official confirmed that Omar Khadr has been given the money. A different official also familiar with the deal said it is for $10.5 million Canadian dollars (US$8 million). Both insisted on speaking anonymously because they were not authorized to discuss the deal publicly.

After the nation’s homeland missile defense system successfully intercepted a mock enemy warhead high above the Pacific on May 30, the director of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency said the test had been held under “very realistic” conditions. In key aspects, however, the carefully scripted test posed much less of a challenge for U.S. missile defenses than would an actual attack, an investigation has found.

Islamic militants unleashed a suicide car bomb and heavy gunfire on an Egyptian military checkpoint in northeastern Sinai Peninsula on Friday, killing 23 troops and wounding 33, officials said.

Short of agreements on everything from Syria to Ukraine, the fate of a pair of Russian diplomatic compounds seized by the United States last year offers Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin one possible way to start repairing a relationship wracked by disagreements over some of the world's worst problems and Moscow's meddling in the U.S. presidential election.

Anti-globalization activists set dozens of cars ablaze and tried to block national delegations from entering the Group of 20 summit Friday as the meeting got underway in the German port city of Hamburg. Responding to a second day of protests, police ordered in several hundred more officers from across the country.

Islamic State militants fought on Friday to repel the advance of U.S.-backed Syrian forces, days after they inched closer to the heart of the extremist group's de facto capital of Raqqa.