Новости за 27.05.2019

Patriotism was never in short supply in the Blickensderfer family of Sugarcreek. All six of the sons of Jesse and Josephine Blickersderfer served in World War II. Two of them — Walker, 22, and Robert, 37, — died in the conflict.

Syria said an Israeli attack against a military post in the country's south on Monday killed a soldier and injured another. Israel, in a rare statement acknowledging firing into Syria, said it was responding to an anti-aircraft fire from Syria against one of its combat planes.

President Donald Trump on Monday denied that the United States is seeking regime change in Iran, dialing back hawkish rhetoric days after ordering 1,500 additional U.S. troops to the region.

Vice President Mike Pence paid tribute to fallen members of the U.S. armed forces Monday, thanking their loved ones in a ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery and acknowledging that for them "every day is Memorial Day."

Pvt. Nicholas Minue, a World War II Medal of Honor recipient honored for his bravery posthumously, is buried at the North Africa American Cemetery in Tunisia, where a Memorial Day ceremony Monday paid tribute to him and the many others who died in Africa fighting fascism.

The Pearl Harbor-based USS Preble will be the first destroyer to be equipped with a high-energy laser to counter surface craft and unmanned aerial systems, according to a published report, with the Navy planning to one day use the powerful light beams to defend against Chinese or Russian cruise missiles.

The National Museum of American History is now finishing a massive project to digitize 18,000 of its old political and military posters to make them easily accessible and to expand awareness of figures and issues long vanished from the headlines.

It’s a testament to just how much time has passed that their children are the baby boomers now old enough to be passing into retirement themselves.

For decades, 86-year-old Army veteran Floyd Edward "Ed" Hoskins watched his 11 children and 19 grandchildren walk across dozens of high school and college graduation stages. This time, it was his turn.

Tessa, a 6-year-old Belgian malinois, raced toward Staff Sgt. Jacob Cokkinias but immediately stopped inches away from attacking when ordered to by her handler, Staff Sgt. Connor Oien.

A 60-year-old Jacksonville Beach Post Office mailman spends his Sundays cleaning veterans' headstones at rundown cemeteries. And Memorial Day weekend was no exception.

Today’s discussion treats impeachment as a trivialized gambit within the ordinary game of electoral politics. The undermining of the constitutional ideal is near-total.

Khalifa Hifter's self-styled Libyan National Army launched an offensive last month to take Tripoli from militias loosely allied with a U.N.-supported government.

The group took to the streets of the western city of Wuppertal in 2014, dressed in orange vests bearing the words "Sharia police" and handing out leaflets declaring the area a "Sharia-controlled zone."

The trials come as questions swirl about the legal treatment of thousands of foreign nationals formerly with the extremist group.

Police said Sunday night's explosion in Dhaka's Malibagh area left three people injured, including a police officer.

Police had launched a large manhunt after a device exploded Friday on a busy pedestrian street in the central city.

Police had launched a large manhunt after a device exploded Friday on a busy pedestrian street in the central city.

Regional winners advance to best-of-three super regionals, and those eight winners go on to the College World Series in Omaha.

The soldiers were driving back to base after picking up their salaries in the country's western Farah province.

A horse died this weekend after racing at Santa Anita Park, the latest in a string of troubling equine fatalities at the California track. Twenty-six horses have died at Santa Anita since Dec. 26, a count that now includes Kochees, a 9-year-old gelding, according to the Los Angeles Times.

President Donald Trump said Monday he is not "personally" bothered by recent short-range North Korean missile tests and doesn't believe they violated U.N. Security Council resolutions, breaking with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who is hosting the president on a four-day state visit full of pageantry and pomp.

The nine men share a prestigious status -- each awarded the highest military decoration a U.S. service member can earn for valor.

This Memorial Day is bringing closure to the family of a young Army sergeant who left Arizona more than 80 years ago, dying in an infamous WWII prisoner of war camp in the Philippines.

Flight Officer Richard S. Brock never made it to the battlefields of World War II, but he died trying.