Новости за 23.12.2017

Yemeni tribal officials say a Saudi-led coalition airstrike has killed at least 10 people and wounded 25 others in the capital, Sanaa.

Libyan Prime Minister Fayez Serraj urged on Saturday the international community to take a firm stance against those defying a 2015 political agreement stipulating a U.N. mandate that expired on Dec. 17, as thousands of supporters of military strongman Khalifa Hifter are now calling on Hifter to lead the country.

Hundreds of Muslim demonstrators attacked an unlicensed church south of Cairo wounding three people, an Egyptian Coptic Christian diocese said on Saturday, in the latest assault on members of the country's Christian minority.

Pirated copies of the latest Star Wars installment were available here more than a week ago, but for die-hard fans at a coalition base at Kabul’s airport, it wouldn’t be the same as seeing it on the big screen — even if that big screen is the size of a chapel altar.

San Diego State's game against Army in the Armed Forces Bowl reminded SDSU head coach Rocky Long of the time he was recruited by West Point. Long was a talented football player at Alta Loma High in the late 1960s, but the Black Knights weren't recruiting him in that sport. They recruited Long as a basketball player.

One report accusies West Point of letting its "most high-profile players operate under a different set of rules than typical cadets," and cites "failing classes, openly disregarding rules and avoiding discipline" among the academy's football players.

The Pentagon announced recently that U.S.-led coalition forces had destroyed 25 insurgent-run drug labs as part of a new U.S. military strategy to weaken the Taliban by going after its sources of revenue. It said at least $80 million worth of narcotics had been destroyed.

Western powers are reluctant to help rebuild Syria after its civil war, because they think the wrong side won. Russia and Iran played a major part in that outcome — but they can't afford a bill estimated at a quarter-trillion dollars.

The arrest of a 26-year-old Modesto tow truck driver linked to a plot to attack San Francisco's Pier 39 on Christmas highlights a larger concern about the radicalization of U.S. residents by terrorist groups.

The arrest of a 26-year-old Modesto tow truck driver linked to a plot to attack San Francisco's Pier 39 on Christmas highlights a larger concern about the radicalization of U.S. residents by terrorist groups.

The arrest of a former Marine linked to a plot to attack San Francisco's Pier 39 on Christmas highlights a larger concern about the radicalization of U.S. residents by terrorist groups.

Sunday marks 20 years since then Nago Mayor Tetsuya Higa announced he would accept a plan to shift the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station to his city — but the base transfer has not been a smooth process.

Neither Republicans nor Democrats are united over how to limit the authority to conduct foreign surveillance on U.S. soil, particularly when it comes to the question of when law enforcement officials can scour the collected surveillance for information about Americans.

Nicholas Slatten, a former Blackwater Worldwide security contractor, was originally convicted of first-degree murder in shootings that killed 14 unarmed Iraqi civilians in Baghdad's Nisour Square in 2007.

Navy finds itself in the rare position of playing a postseason contest at its home facility, hosting Virginia in the Military Bowl on Dec. 28 at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium. So the Midshipmen are going to a bowl without really going anywhere.

NATO has responded with plans to reestablish a command post, shuttered after the Cold War, to help secure the North Atlantic. NATO allies are also rushing to boost anti-submarine warfare capabilities and to develop advanced submarine-detecting planes.

Everitt Aaron Jameson, a former Marine, told an undercover agent he believed to be associated with senior leadership of the Islamic State group that he wanted to conduct a violent attack on Pier 39 in San Francisco.

Roy Moore had lost, but there were still all the people who believed as he did that America was a Christian nation, that biblical law came before man's law, and as the mayor did, that sin was real and so was salvation.

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis says "storm clouds are gathering" over the Korean Peninsula.

Tembin grazes southern Palawan, getting set to head over South China Sea toward southern edge of Vietnam late Christmas Day.

Tembin continues tracking over Sulu Sea toward southern tip of Tembin; might miss Ho Chi Minh.

For two decades, the commander in chief has doled out distinguished-looking coins as personal mementos. Now, the presidential "challenge coin" has undergone a Trumpian transformation.