Новости за 17.08.2017

A suicide bomber blew himself up in the southern Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing a Hamas militant who was trying to stop the attacker from crossing into Egypt, Hamas announced, blaming an Islamic State sympathizer for carrying out the unprecedented attack.

Two members of Congress from New York are pressing Army officials to rename the U.S. Military Academy barracks named for Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

Three weeks after Donald Trump, their commander in chief, clouded their futures through a string of tweets, saying he won’t allow them to serve in the military “in any capacity,” thousands of transgender servicemembers continue to serve the nation, still anxiously awaiting official policy to determine their fate.

As nuclear posturing between North Korea and the United States rivets the world, a quieter conflict between India and China is playing out on a remote Himalayan ridge — with stakes just as high.

A Hong Kong court sent young activist Joshua Wong and two other student leaders to prison Thursday for their roles in huge pro-democracy protests nearly three years earlier, in the latest sign that tolerance for dissent is waning in the Chinese-ruled former British colony.

The Navy has posthumously promoted the seven USS Fitzgerald sailors who perished in a deadly June 17 collision with a merchant ship off the coast of Japan.

The USS Lewis B. Puller will replace the USS Ponce, which is scheduled to be decommissioned next year. The new vessel is the second ship named after Marine Lt. Gen. Lewis Burwell “Chesty” Puller, a World War II and Korean War combat veteran.

For some baby boomers, North Korea's nuclear advances prompt flashbacks to a time when they were young, and when they prayed each night that they might awaken the next morning. For their children, the North Korean crisis is a taste of what the Cold War was like.

A military solution to the North Korean missile threat would be "horrific" but allowing Pyongyang to develop the capability to launch a nuclear attack on the United States is "unimaginable," the top U.S. military officer said Thursday in Beijing.

Within days, weeks at most, the former British spy behind the infamous dossier on Donald Trump could find himself forced by courts on both sides of the Atlantic to sit for a deposition.

All around the country, officials are discussing whether to remove memorials and rename public spaces dedicated to Confederate leaders. But not at the Pentagon.

The expanse adjoins the original search zone far southwest of Australia that was identified through satellite analysis of the final hours of the flight, which apparently ended when the plane ran out of fuel.

Gen. Joseph Dunford said Thursday that he has advised U.S. leadership not to “dial back” joint war games with South Korea that are due to begin next week despite threats from North Korea.

Moon Jae-in’s comments came amid fears that joint U.S.-South Korean war games slated to begin Monday may spark new tensions over North Korea’s threat to fire missiles into waters near Guam.

In an interview with The American Prospect posted online Wednesday, Bannon tells the liberal publication that the U.S. is losing the economic race against China. He also talks about purging his rivals from the Defense and State departments.

The bill immediately eliminates the 15-year limit veterans currently have to tap into their education benefits. That restriction will no longer apply to veterans discharged on or after Jan. 1, 2013, or to current and future servicemembers.

Shulkin, who is Jewish, spoke to reporters and said that although he serves Trump, he does not speak for him. He declined to tell President Donald Trump it was wrong for him to equate their violence with that of counterprotesters who stood up to them.

A United Nations board of inquiry says two U.N. experts were likely slain in March by militiamen from Congo's violence-torn Kasai region, but it said further investigation and judicial proceedings are needed to determine the identity and motive of the killers.

Army veteran David Rogers was assaulted by an off-duty Prince George's County police officer as he attempted to help a neighbor who was locked out of her car. The county was found liable in a recent court case.

A Pentagon prosecutor pressed an embarrassed and reluctant Saudi terrorist Wednesday to describe his abuse during his 2002-03 interrogations in Afghanistan, including an episode of an Army private shoving his genitals in the man’s face.

Vietnam War Army veteran Dennis Korzi needed a shoulder replacement he knew from experience who he wanted to do the operation: orthopedic surgeon Rex Herbert, who left a booming private practice in Harrisburg in 2009 to join the Lebanon VA Medical Center.

On Tuesday, Showtime announced that the Midshipmen will be the subject of the network's third weekly college football documentary series.

Eight years after Cpl. Nicholas Ryan Roush was killed in Afghanistan, his parents were invited back to Fort Bragg to help honor their son.

Two Air National Guard aircraft will head to the Pacific Northwest to help detect and map wildfires.

A federal judge Wednesday delivered a victory to the U.S. government in its effort to arrest terror suspects overseas for trial in civilian courts, ruling that prosecutors can use the statements of the accused ringleader of the 2012 attacks on an American compound in Libya.