Новости за 22.08.2015

Vice President Joe Biden left the seclusion of the Delaware home where he's been weighing a presidential run to meet Saturday with Elizabeth Warren - another influential Democrat who has faced calls to enter the 2016 race.

Professional skydivers and a fellow Army Golden Knight have paid tribute to the military parachutist killed in an accident at a Chicago air show by landing at his funeral service.

Islamic State militants killed up to 50 soldiers in two separate ambushes in Iraq's turbulent Anbar province west of the capital, Baghdad, a top provincial official said Saturday.

Nigeria's new army chief drove to the frontline of the war on Boko Haram and narrowly missed an ambush that killed one soldier and wounded two.

Thousands of rain-soaked migrants on Saturday rushed past Macedonian riot police who were attempting to block them from entering Macedonia from Greece. Police fired stun grenades and dozens of people were injured in the border clashes.

Al-Qaida militants have seized control of key areas in and around the port city of Aden, high-ranking security officials said Saturday.

NATO says three American contractors were among 12 people killed when a suicide car bomb struck a NATO convoy in downtown Kabul on Saturday, the latest in a string of insurgent attacks apparently aimed at demonstrating that the Taliban remain a force to be reckoned with despite the death of the movement’s founder and longtime leader. NATO did not name the dead contractors in its statement, The Associated Press reported.

A federal judge in California has ordered the government to release immigrant children from family detention centers "without unnecessary delay," and with their mothers when possible, according to court papers.

A Key Largo man has been arrested after a boat chase in which authorities say he fired shots at Coast Guard personnel.

During a small ceremony Friday afternoon, Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., presented Mary "Betty" Chandler with an American Fighter Aces Bronze Medal in honor and recognition of her deceased husband's status as an American Fighter Ace.

A military jet taking part in a British airshow crashed into a busy main road, killing seven people and injuring more than a dozen others, police said Saturday.

Syrian airstrikes on a Damascus suburb Saturday killed more than 20 people and wounded dozens in the latest wave of government attacks on the crowded rebel-held area, activists said.

Military leaders in Europe praised the actions of two American servicemembers and a civilian friend who subdued a gunman on a high-speed train traveling through Belgium on Friday.

Army 1st Sgt. Peter "Drew" McKenna, Jr., assigned to the 1st Battalion, 7th Special Forces Group, Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., was honored at a memorial in Kabul on Aug. 13, 2015.

Our staff-selected photos of the week of the Army in action.

Investigators are trying to figure out why an armed veteran slipped through a side door of a federal building in Manhattan, fatally shooting a security guard before killing himself.

One serves in the Air Force, another recently served in Afghanistan in the National Guard, another is studying physical therapy in Sacramento — and all three Americans are being hailed as heroes for tackling and disarming a gunman they happened to encounter on a high-speed Amsterdam-Paris train.

William Livsey, an 84-year-old Silver Star, Distinguished Service Medal awardee and retired Army general alleged to have not paid $80 bill and fought with police, but stories differ.

The Army's new chief of staff, Gen. Mark Milley, is taking a calculated approach to arguably the most consequential decision of his early tenure — whether to recommend that any all-male combat roles remain closed to women.

For years, North Korea's litany of threats has been largely dismissed — Seoul, after all, is still not drowning in a "sea of fire," despite Pyongyang's repeated promises to make it so.

SEOUL, South Korea — U.S. forces are on “enhanced status” as a deterrent measure after resuming annual war games with South Korea in wake of the South’s rare exchange of fire with North Korea Thursday, according to the Department of Defense.

Kosovo said Friday it has applied for membership in the United Nations' scientific and cultural organization, a move immediately opposed by Serbia which argues that it's not qualified because it isn't a state.

An armed veteran slipped through a side door of a federal building on Friday and shot a security guard in the head, killing him, before fatally shooting himself, police said.

Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq are engaged in the "most brutal, systematic" destruction of ancient sites since World War II, the head of the U.N. cultural agency said Friday — a stark warning that came hours after militants demolished a monastery with ancient foundations in central Syria.

Islamic State extremists in Syria and Iraq are engaged in the "most brutal, systematic" destruction of ancient sites since World War II, the head of the U.N. cultural agency said Friday — a stark warning that came hours after militants demolished a monastery with ancient foundations in central Syria.