Новости за 18.07.2017

Former National Security Adviser Susan Rice will speak to staff on the Senate intelligence committee, which is investigating Russian interference in U.S. elections and is interviewing several former Obama administration officials.

Computer hackers, not content with mucking around with U.S. commerce and elections, have trained their sights on nuclear power plants, prompting questions about cyber security at Oyster Creek.

Russia's mostly Muslim republic of Chechnya is becoming a major player in rebuilding war-ravaged Syria. And ordinary Chechens are likely to foot the bill, with many of them being forced to make contributions or face the possibility of exile or death, human rights activists say.

Built in 1691 by the French and later occupied by the British, Fort St. Joseph would be a post for four different countries throughout its history. The fort would operate as a military garrison and trading post.

Despite opposition from Republican moderates and conservatives, House leaders are pressing ahead with a budget plan whose success is critical to the party's hopes to deliver on one of President Donald Trump's top priorities — a GOP-only effort to overhaul the tax code.

Army spokesman Col. Santo Domic Chol says this is in response to increased tribal conflict in the region, including revenge killings and cattle raiding. He says it creates further insecurity amid the country's civil war.

Republican Sen. John Braun's wife is set to be sworn in as a temporary senator Tuesday in order to fill in for him while he's on military training for the U.S. Navy Reserve.

A squad of girls from Afghanistan has gotten the most attention, but at the international robotics competition in Washington, there are more stories that there are teams.

The injuries sustained by a baby who died under his father’s care aren’t consistent with an accidental fall, a doctor said during the court-martial of a soldier on murder charges Tuesday.

A Syrian Kurdish militia said Tuesday it will hand over the bodies of nine enemy fighters to Turkey following clashes with Turkish-backed Syrian opposition forces.

Hundreds of people in southern Jordan have protested the conviction of a local soldier in the shooting deaths of three U.S. military trainers.

A dispute over metal detectors is escalating into a new showdown between Israel and the Muslim world over a Jerusalem shrine that has triggered major Israeli-Palestinian confrontations in the past.

The new air-to-ship missile would be the first supersonic air-to-ship type to be made in Japan and is characterized as being difficult to intercept.

China on Tuesday renewed a call for India to immediately withdraw its troops from disputed territory high in the Himalayan mountains, following a report that Chinese forces recently held live firing drills in the region.

More than a century has passed since the first successful transit of the treacherous, ice-bound Northwest Passage by Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen in 1906.

Ending a program that gives foreign-born troops with medical and language skills leverage in gaining citizenship could produce some unintended consequences that affect the military's ability to executes its missions around the world

A combat veteran who wants to be Maine's next governor has become the top reported fundraiser so far as the 2018 gubernatorial field shapes up.

President Donald Trump is having lunch with servicemembers to come up with new ideas for fighting the war in Afghanistan.

Separatists in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday proclaimed a new state that aspires to include not only the areas they control but also the rest of the country. But Russia, their chief backer, sought to play down the announcement, saying it was merely part of public discussion.

Desperate to help Syrians stuck on Jordan's sealed border, U.N. agencies agreed late last year to an aid system that critics say handed much of the control over aid distribution to Jordan's military and a Jordanian contractor, and also involved armed men on the Syrian side.

A German court has sentenced a 25-year-old Syrian citizen to three years in prison for membership in a foreign terrorist organization.

The Navy yard commandant's house at Sackets Harbor Battlefield site will be host to an interactive history program.

The stand-down of the Delaware base’s C-5s was ordered Monday by Air Force Gen. Carlton D. Everhart II, the Air Mobility Command chief, who cited safety concerns. The order only impacts the 18 C-5 aircraft based at Dover.

Straddling the world's most heavily fortified border, the Korean truce village of Panmunjom is a potential flashpoint where North Korean soldiers hacked to death two American officers at the height of the Cold War.

Lebanon is preparing a military operation to secure a lawless section of the border with Syria, Prime Minister Saad Hariri told parliament on Tuesday.