Новости за 21.09.2017

Approximately 2,200 82nd Airborne Division paratroopers began quietly deploying this month, part of a long-discussed troop surge that involves more than 3,000 U.S. servicemembers on top of the more than 10,000 already serving in Afghanistan.

Special counsel Robert Mueller's team of investigators is seeking information from the White House related to Michael Flynn's stint as national security adviser and about the response to a meeting with a Russian lawyer that was attended by President Donald Trump's oldest son, The Associated Press has learned.

When a boat or aircraft is in distress, a tenant unit at Tyndall Air Force Base can help with search-and-rescue efforts.

British police have arrested a sixth person in connection with last week's attack on a London subway train.

On rubber mats spread across a Mexico City recreation center, the Montero family cuddles under donated wool blankets, their first new possessions after abandoning their apartment following the deadly magnitude 7.1 earthquake.

In a push at dawn, Iraqi forces launched an operation on Thursday to retake the town of Hawija — one of the last extremist strongholds in Iraq — from the Islamic State group, according to a statement from the Iraqi prime minister's office.

A truck filled with aid for Rohingya Muslim refugees in Bangladesh veered off a road and fell into a ditch Thursday morning, killing at least nine aid workers, hours after another aid shipment in the refugees' violence-wracked home state in Myanmar was attacked by a Buddhist mob.

Senior cadet Steven Fox is accused of assaulting the Colorado Springs man he took as a date to an academy dance in 2015. The case is a landmark of sorts at the academy, as the first of its kind involving homosexual acts.

The Humphreys football team hopes that Friday will be the first step back toward its second straight appearance in the Far East Division II football title game.

The cheering had barely died down three Novembers ago, following one of the biggest upsets in Far East Division I Volleyball Tournament history, when then-freshmen Chloe’ Stevens and Maiya Larry of Kubasaki said they made a pact.

Somehow, the Spangdahlem Sentinels and Rota Admirals have avoided becoming football archrivals. That’s likely about to change.

A set of DODEA-Europe volleyball tournament previews are scheduled for this weekend as divisional rivals from across the continent gather to see where they stand.

An ash-scattering ceremony was held Tuesday in honor of Melvin Stone, who served as a chief machinist’s mate on the destroyer tender USS Dobbin. Stone was one of only two sailors on deck when the attack began.

The Defense Department has confirmed the existence of a grave that Japanese townsfolk say contains the remains of a downed World War II Navy pilot.

Gregory Hubbard was arrested in a terrorism sting last year on allegations that carry a maximum punishment of 20 years in prison.

Petty Officer 1st Class Gregory Kyle Seerden, a member of SEAL Team 1 in San Diego, faces a minimum of 15 years in prison.

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Eight months into Trump's tenure, he has yet to nominate a U.S. ambassador to South Korea — a glaring omission as the White House tries to formulate a coherent policy to confront Pyongyang.

Trump, who has already slashed refugee admissions once since taking office, is now weighing limiting even further the number of refugees allowed into the country in the next fiscal year.

Egypt is failing to protect free speech and its minorities, investigate abuses by its forces or grant U.S. monitors access to the conflict-ridden Sinai Peninsula, according to a damning Trump administration report obtained by The Associated Press.

Though the full scope of the investigation is not clear, the information requests make clear at least some of the areas that Mueller and his team of prosecutors intend to probe and reveal an interest in certain Trump decisions as president.

The wiggling fingers of a young girl trapped in the rubble of her collapsed school in Mexico City raised hopes among hundreds of rescuers working furiously Wednesday to try to free her — a drama that played out at dozens of buildings toppled by the powerful earthquake that killed at least 223 people.

A retired Army Green Beret credited with saving multiple lives during a covert four-day mission into Laos to target North Vietnamese soldiers operating there will receive the Medal of Honor next month, 47 years after his heroic actions.

A retired Army Green Beret credited with saving multiple lives during a covert four-day mission into Laos to target North Vietnamese soldiers operating there will receive the Medal of Honor next month, 47 years after his heroic actions.

If the investigation into Maj. Gen. Joseph Harrington’s alleged flirtatious texting of a local woman proceeds like similar past probes, he’ll join an Air Force three-star, a Marine four-star and scores of other senior officers in undergoing months of turbulence, followed by retirement.