Новости за 23.06.2018

Cyber and electronic warfare technologies are being developed across America at national research facilities, in academic laboratories and in the offices of the nation's largest defense contractors. But some of the most useful R&D is being done by soldiers inside a tent at Fort Gordon.

Under sealed orders and through circuitous routes, the three judge advocate general (JAG) corpsmen joined 14,000 other U.S. military personnel being sent to Lebanon on a Cold War peacekeeping mission in 1958. They helped make a bit of history, too.

Sam Coble, now in his 70s, was just a kid during the 1940s when German prisoners of war helped move a barn across Friendly Avenue to the family's farm on the other side of the road.

All Persian Gulf monarchies have some version of this problem. Government is the employer of first resort — even when it has nothing much for its employees to do. That's part of a tacit agreement between ruling families and citizens. The latter may not get a say in how their countries are run, but at least they get looked after.

Tens of thousands of people marched on the British Parliament on Saturday, demanding another vote on Britain's decision to leave the European Union. They wore T-shirts reading "This is what a European looks like" and waved signs urging "Bollocks to Brexit!"

When Saudi Arabia's women are finally allowed to drive on Sunday, it will be the culmination of a decades-long struggle by a group of Saudi feminists who suffered imprisonment, harassment and other hardships as they campaigned for that simple right.

For three extraordinary days this month, the 17-year Afghan conflict took its first formal break, generating a spontaneous outpouring of emotion on all sides and leaving indelible images of Taliban fighters eating at ice cream stands, hugging tearful Afghan soldiers and praying alongside their longtime enemies. Now, the insurgents have returned to the fight.

Rear Adm. Timothy Zakriski took command of the 2,800-member New York Naval Militia during a ceremony held Friday along the Hudson River in the Rensselaer County town of Schodack, N.Y.

Her phone rang about 8 p.m. It was the chef at the Red Hen, the tiny farm-to-table restaurant that she co-owned just off Main Street in Lexington, Virginia. Sarah Huckabee Sanders had just walked in and sat down, the chef informed her.

At the Ossur Running and Mobility Clinic at Catholic University’s football stadium, amputees of all ages and backgrounds learned walking, running and exercise techniques, and were inspired by two former U.S. Army officers, Col. Gregory Gadson and Col. Patty Collins, both amputees themselves.

The coast of White Rock, British Columbia, in western Canada looks to be an ideal place for a run, with its sweeping views of the Semiahmoo Bay to the west and scores of waterfront homes and seafood restaurants to the east. That's what 19-year-old Cedella Roman thought when she went jogging along the area's smooth beaches — in a southbound direction, notably — on May 21.

Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa was unscathed Saturday by an explosion at a campaign rally that state media called an attempt to assassinate him.

According to a report published Friday afternoon by Time magazine, military leaders are drawing up plans to create a tent city at Camp Pendleton to detain as many as 47,000 illegal immigrants from Central America and other locations over the coming months.

Syrian State news agency SANA reported fierce clashes in al-Lujat area, a rocky region in the eastern countryside of Daraa.

Out of the ashes of the Battle of Okinawa grew “one of the strongest alliances in the history of alliances,” between the United States and Japan, Lt. Gen. Lawrence Nicholson told U.S. Marines attending the memorial.

Out of the ashes of the Battle of Okinawa grew “one of the strongest alliances in the history of alliances,” between the United States and Japan, Lt. Gen. Lawrence Nicholson told U.S. Marines attending the memorial.

Lt. Gen. Robert L. Caslen Jr., a member of West Point's class of 1975 and the military academy's superintendent since 2013, said goodbye to the Army on Friday. Caslen confirmed that President Donald Trump has nominated Gen. Darryl Williams to succeed him.

After delivering Gov. William Egan to oversee efforts to rebuild a town on April 25, 1964, a hulking Alaska National Guard cargo plane took off in a heavy snowstorm to return to Anchorage carrying the Guard’s adjutant general, but crashed into Prince William Sound.

The Islamic State group has released a hostage video demanding the release of all Sunni women prisoners from Iraqi jails. The group says it is giving the government a deadline of three days before it executes the six men in the video, who identify themselves as Iraqi policemen and militiamen.

South Carolina State Rep. Katie Arrington, who defeated U.S. Rep. Mark Sanford in his re-election bid, has been seriously injured in a car wreck and will require weeks of recovery and more procedures, according to her spokesman.

The Afghan government has completed some of the first steps on a $10 billion natural gas pipeline project so potentially lucrative that the Taliban have promised their support. But financial and security hurdles await the fledgling pipeline, including funding concerns and a proposed pipeline route that will run through Taliban-contested provinces.

More than 250 veterans, servicemembers and families rode their motorcycles through the jagged, gray peaks that mark the highest points in Germany as part of the annual Ride the Alps biker event this weekend.

The U.S. military sent 100 wooden coffins to the truce village on the border with North Korea on Saturday as it steps up preparations for the return of the remains of American soldiers killed in the 1950-53 war, according to the U.N. command.

There have been two constants in the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division over the past two years. The soldiers have stood ready as the nation's 911. And they have won. A lot.

There have been two constants in the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division over the past two years. The soldiers have stood ready as the nation's 911. And they have won. A lot.