Новости за 05.10.2017

Intensified fighting in Syria in recent weeks has damaged more hospitals, with at least 10 medical facilities hit over the past 10 days and hundreds of thousands of people cut off from health care, the International Committee of the Red Cross said on Thursday.

For travelers today, Malta’s proximity to Europe’s glamour destinations is a definite plus, if not a widely appreciated one. Often experienced as a day stop on Mediterranean cruises, Malta greatly rewards a longer stay.

Moments after she dropped out of the aircraft, her main parachute failed to deploy. She cut it away and activated the reserve. It, too, malfunctioned. Her bones were broken, but she had survived the fall.

Tunisia's prime minister says his government has no evidence that the Tunisian who stabbed two women to death in Marseille had links to any extremist group.

The U.S. State Department says Myanmar's crackdown that has caused an exodus of a half-million Rohingya Muslims to Bangladesh could destabilize the region and invite international terrorists.

Defense ministers from Poland, Lithuania and Ukraine have authorized their two-year-old joint brigade to take part in international missions for the region's security.

Ten Alaska Guardsmen — airmen and soldiers from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson and Eielson Air Force Base — are heading to Puerto Rico Friday to help with hurricane relief.

Near-final regulations released last week by the Defense Health Agency (DHA) to implement sweeping Tricare reforms on Jan. 1 include a surprise restructuring of appointment fees for active duty families, and retirees under 65 and their families, who get their health care outside of military treatment facilities.

Those who visit Odaiba, an artificial island in Tokyo Bay, won’t be disappointed by the 65-foot Unicorn Gundam statue unveiled there on Sept. 24. The robot, standing next to DiverCity Tokyo Plaza mall, replaced a Gundam that was recently dismantled.

Moscow is apparently targeting rank-and-file U.S. military personnel for information while operating in Eastern Europe and while coming to Russia as tourists, according to military officials and media reports.

An Air Force civilian’s wife was seriously injured in a two-car collision Wednesday afternoon that closed a main road outside Ramstein Air Base and caused major traffic delays.

Republicans are focused on cutting taxes instead of deficits as they look to power a $4.1 billion budget plan through the House on Thursday.

It began when a Libyan militia paid by Italy to stop migrants heading to Europe intercepted a group of human traffickers offshore. That confrontation has spiraled into a weeks-long battle among rival militias for control of a Libyan coastal city that has left dozens dead.

Iraq's prime minister said Thursday that troops have retaken the northern town of Hawija from the Islamic State group, driving the extremists from one of their last strongholds in the country.

Lawrence Daley credits face-to-face college counseling for his decision to obtain a master’s degree while he was in the Air Force in the early 1990s.

Iraqi government forces have retaken the northern town of Hawija from the Islamic State group, one of the militant group's last strongholds in Iraq, the country's prime minister said Thursday.

On a winter morning in 1966, nuclear weapons fell from the sky over southeastern Spain.

French President Emmanuel Macron offered Thursday for France to mediate between the Iraqi government and Kurds seeking independence after a controversial referendum.

Russia's military said on Thursday the leader of an al-Qaida linked militant group in Syria, who had been reportedly injured in a Russian airstrike, has fallen into a coma.

Camp Humphreys may accept buildings with minor flaws as planners face a new urgency to complete the long-delayed expansion of the Army garrison and future home of U.S. Forces Korea, the commander says.

Three U.S. special operations troops were killed and two wounded in an ambush in Niger on Wednesday, according to media reports.

The Marine from Gillette who was critically injured during a training exercise in California has undergone painful skin grafts, lost 30 pounds and was on a ventilator to treat scorched lungs — but is determined to return to duty once he fully recovers.

An immigration judge in Washington state declined to release an Iraq War veteran from custody Wednesday while he fights the government's efforts to deport him.

Just hours after Stephen Paddock unleashed a hail of bullets on a country music festival in Las Vegas, the Islamic State group issued a flurry of statements claiming the 64-year-old gunman as one of its own.

A chemist says he found a byproduct of VX nerve agent on the shirt of the Indonesian woman on trial in Malaysia for the murder of the half brother of North Korea's leader.