Новости за 05.08.2017

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, sworn in for a second term in front of an audience of foreign officials, reiterated on Saturday that his nation will stand by its obligations in an international nuclear deal.

More than 3,500 Brazilian soldiers are occupying a series of slum communities in northern Rio de Janeiro as part of efforts to combat a spike in violence.

Caitlyn Jenner is horrified she was caught wearing a pro-Trump "Make America Great Again" cap, one reason being that now Jenner detests President Donald Trump following Trump's move to ban transgender personnel from the U.S. military.

A decommissioned U.S. Coast Guard cutter that served the Great Lakes and the nation during World War II is raising money for a stem-to-stern renovation.

An employee for the Army Corps of Engineers is charged in the death of a South Carolina sheriff's deputy who drowned during a training exercise.

U.S. military officials called off a search and rescue operation on Sunday for three U.S. Marines who were missing after their Osprey aircraft crashed into the sea off the east coast of Australia while trying to land.

Killing terrorist leaders provides governments with a low-risk way to demonstrate to the public what it’s doing to battle terrorist groups, according to one analyst.

President Donald Trump's national security adviser H.R. McMaster is stressing that it is "impossible to overstate the danger" posed by North Korea.

The U.N. Security Council unanimously approved tough new sanctions on North Korea on Saturday including a ban on exports worth over $1 billion — a huge bite in its total exports, valued at $3 billion last year.

Retired U.S. Army Lt. Col. Martin Spann is a decorated veteran, having been awarded two Bronze Stars for meritorious service and a Purple Heart for wounds while deployed to Iraq in 2004-2005 and 2008. On Friday, the Simi Valley resident became even more decorated.

He had a stellar military career in the Navy. He co-founded a national charity to provide leadership opportunities for veterans. He is a political outsider with an Ivy League pedigree taking on career politicians. Sound familiar, Missouri?

Dozens of convicts serving time in U.S. prisons for terrorism-related offenses are due to be released in the next several years, raising the question whether that's something Americans should fear.

The remains of Marine Cpl. Skyler James of Petaluma, Calif., were to be returned home Saturday from North Carolina, where the aviation mechanic was killed by a lightning strike last month while he worked on a tilt-rotor Osprey aircraft.

Turkey's president reiterated Saturday that new cross-border operations into Syria are in the works as the country boosts its military presence along the border against threats from Kurdish militants in war-torn Syria.

Lt. Gen. H. Stacy Clardy III said his new position will transfer him from being the J8 deputy director for force management, application and support on the Joint Staff, to the office staff for Defense Secretary retired Marine Gen. James Mattis.

Sgt. Jonathon Michael Hunter and Spc. Christopher Michael Harris were each on their first deployments when they died Wednesday in Afghanistan after a bomb hit their convoy. Vice President Mike Pence was at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware on Friday when their remains returned to the United States.

The debate over Afghanistan strategy, which McMaster had initially hoped to have resolved by May, continued Thursday when the president and his national security adviser met in the Oval Office. Trump's reluctance to commit to a new strategy reflects the paucity of good options in Afghanistan and the dim prospects for peace.

Afghans are alarmed by widespread reports that President Donald Trump has threatened to fire Gen. John Nicholson, the highly regarded U.S. military commander in this war-torn country, and that Trump has also delayed deciding on a military and political strategy Afghans have awaited anxiously for the past six months.

Search and rescue operations were underway for three U.S. Marines who were missing after their Osprey aircraft crashed into the sea off the east coast of Australia on Saturday while trying to land.

The 59th annual German-American Volksfest at the U.S. Army’s Grafenwoehr Training Area was expected to attract more than 100,000 people over the weekend – many lured to the base by the smell of Bratwurst and Texas barbecued ribs.

Noru's forecast track takes it further east of Sasebo, Iwakuni, a bit closer to Tokyo.

Noru begins picking up speed northeast; where will it go, Pacific Ocean or Sea of Japan?

Noru briefly turns southwest, but is forecast to resume tracking northeast, and a bit further away from Sasebo, Iwakuni.

Spc. Christopher Harris who was killed in Afghanistan on Wednesday, was remembered by hometown friend William Kerr as one who "always took care of everyone and was the most selfless person that I met, and put everyone else's needs before him."

With the ongoing centennial observations marking America’s entry into World War I, and in the wake of the British royal family’s visit to Ypres to mark the 100th anniversary of the bloody third battle there, one U.S. Army Europe soldier made the trip to the battle site to visit the grave of his great-uncle, a British army private slain there in 1915.