Новости за 23.08.2015

U.S. Rep. Adam Smith wouldn’t call himself “depressed” when he spoke to a military lobbying group at Joint Base Lewis-McChord last week, but he acknowledged that he brought him with him a “depressing” message.

With the rate of suicides increasing within the Phoenix VA system, one doctor started studying victims’ case files and found a pattern that seemed tragically easy to address: Of four who reported struggling in college, three had not received widely available but little-known academic accommodations for mental health issues.

Former Defense Minister Ehud Barak's comments that Israel came close to ordering an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities but was thwarted by military men and cowardly politicians could shake up Israeli politics.

This year marks the 125th year of Dwight D. Eisenhower’s birth and the beginning of a multimillion-dollar fundraising campaign by the Eisenhower Foundation to update the image, exhibits and education about the nation’s 34th president.

What I have been pining for lately is a higher caliber of political insult.

Given the stated interest by terrorist groups and the widespread availability of potentially dangerous radiological sources, it is nothing short of a miracle that we have not yet seen a dirty bomb terrorist attack.

For a nation built on assimilation, it’s hard to think of anything that better instills a sense of common purpose, of identifying with and caring about the place you live, than having your child be a citizen of that place.

His arm in a sling, U.S. airman Spencer Stone recounted Sunday how he and two other Americans tackled a gunman on a high-speed train in Europe, saying the attacker "seemed like he was ready to fight to the end." But he added: "So were we."

The Sept. 3 parade will showcase the People's Liberation Army's rapidly growing capabilities at a time when Beijing is asserting territorial claims in the South China Sea and East China Sea.

India and Pakistan blamed each other for the cancellation of talks between their national security advisers that were scheduled for this week, with the rivals squabbling over the agenda.

Hillary Rodham Clinton is rolling out big-government proposals first and leaving the wonky stuff of government reform for later.

America’s botched effort last month to support a Syrian moderate rebel group known as Division 30 was a chain of errors that recalls, in a small way, the 1961 Bay of Pigs fiasco.

Five veterans who helped turn the tide of World War II were given the highest honor that can be given by the French government Saturday.

It has come to this: The GOP, formerly the party of Lincoln and ostensibly the party of liberty and limited government, is being defined by clamors for a mass roundup and deportation of millions of human beings.

Of the six sites in the U.S. where researchers are trying to figure out how to integrate unmanned aircraft into civilian airspace, only North Dakota's can fly high both day and night.

Army cadets received up-close looks at the life that awaits them after graduation during visits to Fort Bragg this summer.

U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is to arrive in Nigeria Sunday to commemorate the Boko Haram bombing of his organization's headquarters and focus new attention on 219 schoolgirls held by the extremists.

Britain reopened its embassy in Tehran Sunday in a sign of newly thawed relations in the wake of a landmark nuclear deal between Iran and world powers.

The United Arab Emirates said Sunday that its military freed a British hostage who was kidnapped 18 months ago by al-Qaida in Yemen, which has expanded its reach amid fighting between Shiite rebels and their opponents.

The Air Guard's biggest base doubles as the nation's main training facility for F-16 pilots from allied nations, with about 30 partner countries sending pilots to train here since the 1990s.

The Americans' quick actions, which they described in media appearances Saturday, averted a potential bloodbath.

Ranging in age from 23 to 56, all graduates of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and all soldiers at one point in their lives, they were rallying to a place they have been told for decades was off limits because of their gender.

Saudi Arabia since March has been leading a U.S.-backed coalition of mainly Arab countries in airstrikes against the Iran-supported Shiite rebels, known as Houthis, and allied units of Yemen's fractured military.

The man who boarded a high-speed Amsterdam-to-Paris train with a Kalashnikov rifle before being tackled by passengers was on the radar of authorities in three countries, had ties to radical Islam and may have traveled to Syria, authorities said.

Nigeria's Boko Haram extremists are strengthening ties with the Islamic State group, as shown by reports that Nigerian militants are fighting in Libya, recent arrests in Lebanon and India and the blocking of thousands of suspected extremists from leaving Nigeria.