Новости за 04.08.2015

Last year, word that the Marine Corps had passed an audit of its books was cause for celebration "I know that it might seem a bit unusual to be in the Hall of Heroes to honor a bookkeeping accomplishment," then-Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said. "But, damn, this is an accomplishment!" Now, that audit has been called into question in a report by the Government Accountability Office.

A group of soldiers participating in a large-scale training exercise at a Mississippi National Guard post may have been targeted by gunmen who opened fire in the area late Tuesday morning.

VA Montana has dissolved its urgent mental health unit in favor of additional long-term beds at Fort Harrison west of Helena.

After the Senate's derailing of Republican legislation halting federal dollars for Planned Parenthood, one thing seems clear: Many on both sides think they can ring up gains from the battle.

A funeral service has been scheduled for an airman of the Iowa Air National Guard who drowned while stationed for duty in Guam.

After a decades-long fight by troops and family members sickened by toxic water at Camp Lejeune, the Department of Veterans Affairs has announced a major step toward covering more illnesses connected to exposure at the North Carolina base.

The “first family of Marvel” has had some growing pains.

The Russian government on Tuesday announced that it had delivered “ample scientific data” to the United Nations to back its claim to more than 460,000 square miles of Arctic territory and the wealth of energy, gems and precious metals believed to lie within.

Suspected Boko Haram fighters have killed at least 9 people and kidnapped dozens, including children and teenagers, from Cameroonian villages on the border with Nigeria, a local leader said Tuesday.

Days after suspected Jewish arsonists hurled a firebomb into a house, burning an 18-month-old toddler to death and injuring his parents and brother, Abed Alsalam Dawabsheh, the mayor of Duma, pondered how to increase security for the West Bank town’s 3,000 residents. He had serious limitations.

After being shuttered for more than two years, the West Hazleton, Pa. Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 8253 on Winters Avenue is open again.

The Dayton National Cemetery is now offering full military funerals for veterans, as part of the Veterans Affairs National Cemetery Association’s movement to be a more positive presence in the City of Dayton.

After fleeing the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, Taliban chief Mullah Mohammad Omar took refuge in Pakistan’s densely populated southern port city of Karachi. His cover? Potato trader in a downtown market.

At least one member of the U.S.-trained New Syrian Forces has died and five more have been captured during repeat attacks by al-Qaida affiliate Nusra Front in northern Syria, a senior U.S. defense official says.

At least one member of the U.S.-trained New Syrian Forces has died and five more have been captured during repeat attacks by al-Qaida affiliate Nusra Front in northern Syria, a senior U.S. defense official says.

A civil lawsuit alleging ethics violations nearly a decade ago has become an issue in a Democratic congresswoman's bid to unseat first-term Republican U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk in what is expected to be one of the most competitive 2016 Senate races.

For a U.S. Army where failures to treat soldiers with substance abuse problems have been linked to suicides, Georgia National Guard Spc. Stephen Akins was another tragedy waiting to happen.

A senior Taliban figure resigned Tuesday in the latest fallout from the death of longtime leader Mullah Mohammad Omar, which has triggered a succession dispute and revealed growing rifts within the two-decade-old Afghan insurgent group.

The truck drivers who pass through don't like it. Neither do the millions of tourists who turn up each year. And the migrants who flock here have only one thing on their mind: leaving.

Memories come flooding back as Susumu Ito walks past his photographs, taken when he was a soldier during World War II: the ornery mule his unit encountered somewhere along the border between Italy and France; the weary peasant couple standing outside their bullet-strafed home; the fellow serviceman who playfully covered his face when Ito attempted to snap his portrait in the middle of the Vosges Mountains in France.

Algeria is in the grips of political intrigue, as the president nears death and rumors of coup attempts swirl. Now, the unprecedented firing of three top generals is generating fear that a power struggle within the regime will break into the open — unleashing a new cycle of the bloodshed that plagued the country in the 1990s.

Paratroopers from Russia, China and several other nations have shown their skills at military competitions in western Russia.

Russia has submitted its bid for vast territories in the Arctic to the United Nations, the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.

The United States is ready to provide military training to help Nigeria's battle against Islamic extremists, the leader of a U.S. Congressional delegation said here.

A firebombing that killed a Palestinian toddler and critically injured his sleeping family. A stabbing rampage at a Gay Pride parade that claimed the life of a 16- year-old Israeli girl. The torching of a venerated Roman Catholic church.