Новости за 07.07.2017

The Philippine president says he is likely to extend 60 days of martial law he imposed in the country's south to deal with a deadly siege of a city by militants allied with the Islamic State group because the situation there remains critical.

The 173rd Airborne Brigade, America’s quick-reaction force for Europe and Africa, received a new commander on Friday.

A major Islamic State group counterattack Friday along the northern edge of Mosul's Old City neighborhood has pushed Iraqi Army forces back some 75 meters (82 yards) and is threatening recent gains in other Old City fronts, an Iraqi military officer said.

A Royal New Zealand Navy frigate recently filled in for the USS Fitzgerald during training with the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group in the Western Pacific.

U.S. airmen are quietly closing in on five years of operations in Poland, where members of the 52nd Fighter Wing have staked a small but growing year-round presence aimed at building up allied airpower.

Local veterans claim an alderman has been spotted parking in spaces reserved for recipients of the Purple Hear, with no evidence that he has a Purple Heart.

The Gary Sinise Foundation dedicated a specially adapted, three-bedroom smart home for retired U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Jared Bullock, who lost his right arm and right leg to an IED in Afghanistan.

A five-story apartment building partially collapsed early Friday along a railway line near the southern Italian city of Naples, and authorities were digging by hand to find anyone trapped.

With broad grins and a warm handshake, President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin warmed up for their historic encounter on Friday under the shadow of U.S. outrage about Russian election-meddling and nagging questions about potential Trump campaign collusion.

Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta handed over his Medal of Honor to the 173rd Airborne Brigade, saying it should recognize the unit as a whole.

Here’s a look at how an airstrike typically evolves from a single report of enemy activity to a sortie launched from a 100,000-ton war machine somewhere in the Persian Gulf.

Seventy-four years after Army Staff Sgt. Gerald Jacobsen went missing in combat in France during World War II, a general and a U.S. senator stood by his widow’s side Thursday and awarded him the Bronze Star and Purple Heart.

The Washington hospital where House Majority Whip Steve Scalise is recuperating from a gunshot wound says he has been readmitted to the intensive care unit.

A military judge found Pvt. Michael Walker guilty of assault by battery and communicating a threat after a court martial. Last year, a military court also found Walker guilty of child pornography charges that surfaced during the investigating into his wife's killing.

. In carrying out history's first state-sponsored VX assassination in a country 3,000 miles from its borders, North Korea has demonstrated a new willingness to use its formidable arsenal of deadly toxins and poisons to kill or intimidate enemies on foreign soil, analysts say.

Federal law protects service members while they're on duty. The government says a court must review vehicle repossessions if a loan was obtained before military service.

A federal appeals court has ordered a new sentencing for a former Army major and his wife convicted of multiple counts of child endangerment, after prosecutors argued their initial sentences were too lenient.

Syria is preventing a U.N. chemical weapons inspector from traveling to Damascus to begin the work of determining who carried out a deadly April 4 sarin attack on the town of Khan Sheikhoun, according to diplomatic sources.

Analysts typically take part in strikes or witness acts of killing every two to three weeks. In between, they spend hours watching scenes of everyday life unfold on their screens: children playing, women shopping, men gathering for evening prayers.

An Army veteran whom a Tacoma police officer ran over as the man lay in the street after a night of drinking in 2014 has sued the cop and the Police Department.

The 557-foot vessel Argent Cosmos lost its fuel pump and ran aground at 6:30 a.m. Thursday. A Coast Guard helicopter flew over the vessel at 9 a.m. and found no signs of pollution. There were no reports of injuries.

After a two-day search, rescuers recovered the body of a 23-year-old Fort Benning soldier who went missing Monday afternoon in the Chattahoochee River.