Новости за 17.12.2017

French President Emmanuel Macron says he thinks the Islamic State will be defeated in Syria by mid-February and that Syrian President Bashar Assad can't be ignored — but must one day answer for his crimes.

An American soldier killed in an ambush in Niger with three comrades but recovered days later wasn't captured alive by the enemy or executed at close range, The Associated Press has learned, based on the conclusion of a military investigation. It found evidence he apparently fought to the end.

The U.S. Navy has awarded an initial $63 million contract to a Mississippi shipyard to repair a damaged destroyer.

2017 marked the 50th anniversary for the engineering group at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.

More than two dozen children – most with parents deployed with the Navy or Marines – spent the night on the historic ship permanently docked at Norfolk’s waterfront.

All eyes were on the team of soldiers sliding the shell into a M119 howitzer at a Fort Bragg artillery range.

When retired U.S. Army Master Sgt. Leroy Petry, a recipient of the Medal of Honor, looked out over the dozens of Grizzly Youth Academy graduates Thursday, he saw something of himself in them.

On Friday, the Texas-based “Black Knights” from the 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment air-assaulted from Black Hawk helicopters to Camp Stanley in pre-dawn darkness, linked up with South Korean forces, and entered a bunker in an exercise dubbed Warrior Strike.

Ashley McCall of Concord was attacked and her dog Jax was stolen Thursday night. Now dog lovers are mobilizing to try to help find the missing dog and return him home by Christmas.

In the back corner of Antietam National Cemetery, a good 25 yards from any other plot, are six graves. They are the final resting places of African-American soldiers who died in the Civil War Battle of Antietam — segregated even in death. Saturday afternoon, they were first to be honored during the cemetery's Wreaths Across America ceremony.

The last surviving Nazi collaborator ordered to leave American soil lives in a redbrick Queens rowhouse on a bustling stretch of 89th Street, just around the corner from a Chipotle with a distant view of the Manhattan skyline.

Sanctions aimed at punishing the North Korean regime are hampering the ability of aid groups to operate inside the country, triggering warnings that the international campaign is harming ordinary North Koreans.

A scathing memo from the lead investigator who assessed how federal officers handled the 2014 armed standoff with Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy accuses agents of far-reaching misconduct, recklessness and unrestrained antipathy toward the family.

The U.S. military has conducted cyber attacks against the Islamic State for more than a year, and its record of success when those attacks are coordinated with elite Special Operations troops is such that the Pentagon is likely to carry out similar operations with greater frequency.

The $22 million Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program began in 2007 after its funding was pushed by Sen. Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat who retired this year, according to The New York Times. Reid has long had an interest in the phenomenon of UFOs.