Новости за 17.08.2015

Gov. Nikki Haley ordered armed guards to protect S.C. National Guard armories, bases and recruitment centers on Monday after attacks at Tennessee military recruitment and reserve centers last month left five service members died.

The State Department review of Hillary Rodham Clinton's emails so far has found as many as 305 messages that could contain classified information and require further scrutiny by federal agencies, the department said Monday.

Iraqi lawmakers on Monday referred to the public prosecutor a report calling for former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and other senior civilian and military officials to be held to account for the fall of Iraq’s second-largest city to the militants of Islamic State last summer.

A Marine company with tanks, artillery and armored vehicles has arrived in Europe as the first rotation of the Corps’ expanded Black Sea footprint.

Sgt. 1st Class Corey Hood, the Army parachutist who died over the weekend following a jump during the Chicago Air & Water Show, wanted to be a soldier since he was a child and was determined to make his mark in the military, his stepfather said Monday.

Airtankers the sizes of passenger planes are not a firefighting panacea, experts say. Their role is often poorly understood by the public, their effectiveness poorly understood by researchers. The planes can be tricky to work with because they can't always fly in mountainous terrain, and heavy retardant drops can be a safety hazard for firefighters below.

Revisiting a traumatic event in a therapy session can open a door to relief for those suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. But confronting bad memories may not be the answer for everyone.

Pakistani airstrikes killed 65 militants on Monday in two tribal regions along the Afghan border, the army said, part of a yearlong campaign against insurgents in rugged areas where they have long sheltered.

Regional combatant commanders’ demands for the use of the military’s unmanned aerial systems have increased, and the Pentagon is looking at ways to boost the number of remotely piloted flights it conducts daily from 60 to about 90 by 2019, a Pentagon spokesman said.

Very little of what the conservatives in the hall were going wild over could be characterized as conservative, and most of it wasn’t political at all: Donald Trump's 54-minute address included zero mentions of taxes, the deficit, profligate spending, abortion, or any social issue, unless you count his inscrutable promise to “help on women’s health issues more than anybody, including on the Democratic side, you watch.”

The foreign ministers of Russia and Iran said after talks in Moscow that their two countries have a united position on Syria, with both diplomats warning against any outside attempt to dictate a resolution to the Syrian civil war.

Beijing on Monday ordered a nationwide check on workplace safety and to correct all irregularities five days after huge explosions at warehouse in the port city of Tianjin killed 114 people and left 70 people missing.

Laith Al Saleh, is accustomed to being in command - he led a 700-strong rebel unit in Syria's civil war - and he is now keen to help others dealing with exile.

It's an important philosophical question for all of the presidential candidates, as well as for all Americans: In the face of ISIS’s savagery, what level of brutality are we willing to accept in order to defeat them?

The average citizen could write Sen. Charles Schumer of New York every day for a year urging him to vote for or against an issue and never get more than a polite, “thank you for your interest” form response. But one or two calls from a leader of a potent, deep pockets lobby would receive almost instant action from the powerful Democrat.

While Donald Trump has kept the political world transfixed, Hillary Rodham Clinton has spent her summer methodically rolling out a long list of policy proposals. They add up to a platform you might call “soft populism.” It’s not the insurrectionist socialism of Bernie Sanders but still progressive enough to keep most Democratic primary voters on her side.

Children in military families during wartime are more likely than their nonmilitary peers to abuse drugs and alcohol, get into fights or bring guns to school, among other risky forms of behavior, says a study of California school-age students published Monday.

Amid protests from North Korea, the U.S. and South Korea quietly kicked off their annual Ulchi Freedom Guardian exercise Monday.

A Saudi-led military offensive against Houthi rebels in Yemen has scored major gains this month, including recapturing the strategic port of Aden and the country's largest air base, after the Pentagon more than doubled the number of American advisors to provide enhanced intelligence for airstrikes.

Retired Sgt. Maj. Mike Mika wouldn't be alive if it weren't for the Montagnards. Nor would retired Master Sgt. George Clark. Nor, the men said, would countless other Special Forces veterans who served in Vietnam.

It's been 50 years since Sharon Leeman's brother went to war, and never came home. Yet his name isn't listed among the more than 58,000 others who died in the Vietnam War. Nor is it etched into the black marble memorial in Washington, D.C.

A sun-baked crowd of about 200 people, gathered Sunday afternoon at French Gratitude Park in Coney Island to participate in a triple dedication ceremony in honor of Lance Cpl. Julius Cartwright “Corky” Foster — a Marine who loved the corps so much that he walked the 404-mile trip from Welch to Camp Lejeune to re-enlist. Foster loved his country so much that on Feb. 22, 1968, he made the supreme sacrifice, and laid down his life for his country.

As lobbying intensifies ahead of a vote of disapproval in Congress next month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other opponents say the deal to curb Iran’s nuclear program would give it a flood of funds that leaders of the theocratic state could funnel to military or regional proxies.

A bomb exploded at a popular shrine in central Bangkok during evening rush hour Monday, killing at least 18 people, injuring more than 100 and leaving body parts strewn across the streets of a neighborhood full of five-star hotels and upscale shopping malls, officials said.

Greek authorities said Sunday they have started resettling migrants living in tents in a park in Athens, but many were wary and had moved out ahead of the operation.