Новости за 29.07.2017

Many of Michael Flynn’s classmates, friends and family foresaw that the person they remember as a fun-loving risk-taker — a confident but not conceited adolescent — would distinguish himself as an adult. And he did, becoming a three-star general during a highly decorated Army career.

Retired Marine Gen. John Kelly is a battle-hardened commander who would bring a background of military discipline and order to President Donald Trump's roiling White House as the new chief of staff.

The Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division got a new commander Friday.

Trump's been an official Washington politico for less than a year. He's been a New Yorker for his entire life. Maybe that's why his administration rivals the commotion of New York City

Maj. Gen. James E. Kraft Jr. relinquished command of the 1st Special Forces Command on Friday during a ceremony at Fort Bragg, N.C. Kraft relinquished command of the unit to Maj. Gen. Fran M. Beaudette.

Members of the 181st Special Operations Weather Team parachuted into Corpus Christi Bay as part of a tactical training exercise on Friday at the USS Lexington Museum on the Bay.

A man from the Ivory Coast who faced expulsion from Italy for previous aggressive behavior stabbed a public transit bus driver Saturday in the Tuscan city of Siena, causing a serious injury, police said.

Astronaut and Marine veteran Randy "Komrade" Bresnik will spend four months at the International Space Station following his flight there aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket Friday.

A small number of U.S.-backed rebels have defected and joined government forces south of the country days after the U.S. announced an end to a CIA program that backed opposition fighters, Syrian opposition activists said Saturday.

Nearly two decades since Master Sgt. David K. Thuma's death, his legacy lives on at Fort Bragg, where dozens of soldiers gathered Friday to honor him and mark the 30th anniversary of the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School's noncommissioned officer academy.

From the early days of online stock scams to the increasingly sophisticated world of botnets, pseudonymous hacker Peter Severa spent nearly two decades at the forefront of Russian cybercrime.

Yemen's Shiite Houthi rebels said on Saturday they targeted a military ship belonging to the United Arab Emirates, part of the Saudi-led coalition fighting them in the country.

The standoff over a Jerusalem shrine holy to Muslims and Jews has signaled that the festering Israeli-Palestinian conflict is shifting further from what was once seen as a territorial dispute toward a religious one.

Authorities in northeastern Nigeria say at least 14 people are dead after a suicide bombing blamed on the Boko Haram extremist group.

Sgt. Owen Lennon was buried at the Orange County Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Goshen, N.Y. on Friday. Staff Sgt. Robert Cox was to be buried Saturday.

Thousands of soldiers began patrolling Rio de Janeiro on Friday amid a spike in violence in Brazil's second-largest city.

A Palestinian man who allegedly stabbed one person to death and wounded six others in Hamburg was known to authorities as a suspected Islamic radical but is also psychologically unstable, German officials said Saturday.

In the year since Donald Trump won the Republican presidential nomination, party leaders have been reluctant to challenge a man who has formed a tight bond with conservative voters, even when he upset party orthodoxies and norms of presidential behavior. But that reticence is breaking down.

According to the New York Times, White House advisors Stephen Bannon and Jared Kushner asked Erik D. Prince, a founder of the security firm Blackwater Worldwide, and Stephen A. Feinberg, the owner of the military contractor DynCorp International, to come up with alternatives to sending additional troops to Afghanistan. The newspaper said the two recommended the government rely on private contractors instead of U.S. troops.

After 24 days at sea and a journey spanning more than 6,214 miles, the Finnish icebreaker MSV Nordica has set a new record for the earliest transit of the fabled Northwest Passage.

After nearly flunking out of both grade school and high school, Allen Lynch of Gurnee joined the United States Army, where he also had a rough time, nearly earning himself a dishonorable discharge before a fateful day in combat.

A group of dozens of international teenagers and young adults with a shared history of suffering due to terrorism and war came together this summer in Maine to share grief and foster friendship.

Steve Heinrich leaned forward in his easy chair and stared into the distance as he told the story, his mind taking him back to places he never cared to revisit. But survivor's guilt can be a powerful thing, and he figured the moment had come to try to shed some of it.

The popularity of doomsday fortifications is no surprise, considering Kim Jong-Un's pursuit of a missile that can hit the continental U.S. Curiously, though, the most furious surge of interest isn't in America but Japan, a country that's long been within North Korea's striking distance.

Military officials are working quickly in the face of changing winds in Lewis County, coming in the form of new turbine developments near its Wheeler-Sack Army Airfield.