Новости за 03.08.2017

The Islamic State group called on young men to take up arms in eastern Syria, where government forces are on the march and the extremists are under pressure there and in Iraq.

An African-American woman will take the top position in West Point's cadet chain of command for the first time in the academy's history.

The Trump administration is greenlighting a nearly $600 million sale of high-tech attack planes to Nigeria, officials said Thursday. The goal is to shore up the West African nation's ability to fight Boko Haram and other militants.

In one of the Senate’s last moves before a recess, senators on Thursday confirmed six nominees to the Department of Veterans Affairs, including a new deputy secretary.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is expected to raise concerns about human rights in the Philippines when he visits Manila this week for Asia's biggest security forum, including during possible talks with President Rodrigo Duterte.

U.S. soldiers are busy training Georgian infantrymen to defend their borders, working just 40 miles from where Russian troops occupy the breakaway region of South Ossetia.

Islamic militants from Somalia killed a Kenyan policeman Thursday when they attacked a police station in northern Mandera County, raising security concerns over next week's national elections.

An Air Force veteran who lately has served as the assistant police chief in Louisville, Kentucky, is the new police chief in Lawrence, Kansas.

France, Britain and Japan are hoping for a speedy vote on a U.N. resolution that would impose new sanctions against North Korea following its tests of an intercontinental ballistic missile — but Russia says the text still needs to be discussed and there's no agreement yet.

Stephen McGown was the longest-held of a number of foreigners seized by Islamic extremists in Mali. The extremists have made a fortune over the last decade abducting foreigners and demanding enormous ransoms for their release.

A new report released Tuesday details more than two dozen problems found during a recent inspection of the Salisbury VA Medical Center.

Any ailments Secretary David Shulkin might add to VA’s current list of 14 “presumptive diseases” linked to herbicide exposure would make many more thousands of Vietnam War veterans eligible for VA disability compensation and health care.

By testing new ideas through pilot programs like van rides provided by Volunteers of America North Louisiana, the VA is developing models and spreading them across the country to get more rural veterans the health care they need.

The five C-5M Super Galaxy airlifters that operate out of Delaware's Dover Air Force Base were returned to flying operations Wednesday after nose landing gear repairs. They were grounded last month after two recent malfunctions.

The government wants to make it easier for veterans to get medical care and is promoting new ways to use technology to help.

Unfounded bomb threats continue to plague Navy facilities in Virginia after several interrupted operations on Wednesday and a new threat was found Thursday morning.

A rusted, decades-old live Naval artillery shell was uncovered in a Newton salvage yard Wednesday, prompting a multi-agency response.

The Marine aviation veteran and businessman is the second of three service secretaries to be sworn into office since President Donald Trump's inauguration in January.

A tiny building sporting a painting of a blonde, blue-tailed mermaid apparently drifted 200 miles from Florida to south of Louisiana.

Russia's Defense Ministry announced a cease-fire for a third safe zone in war-torn Syria on Thursday, paving the way for the delivery of sorely needed humanitarian relief to rebel-held areas north of the city of Homs.

The turf surrounding tens of thousands of veterans’ gravestones at the Santa Fe National Cemetery has turned a dry yellow since the pump for an irrigation well broke down in late June.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told reporters during a visit to Beijing that his government would treat threats to China's security as threats to itself and would not allow any "anti-China activity inside Turkey or territory controlled by Turkey."

The Chinese navy has joined a joint U.S.-Japanese search for a missing American sailor who was reported overboard from a U.S. warship Tuesday in the South China Sea.