Новости за 08.09.2015

Under the dim light of a single bulb, a local Afghan policeman lay severely injured, slipping in and out of consciousness. A military doctor reported to an Afghan army brigade commander that the man was unlikely to live through the night.

The Pentagon's top watchdog has cleared senior Army officials of retaliating against a Green Beret officer who turned whistleblower over dysfunction he saw in U.S. hostage recovery efforts, but the case remains under scrutiny by Congress.

An effort to mend fences between the Army and the National Guard could lead to a radical redesign of both, a retired general heading a congressionally-appointed panel on the future of the service said.

The Japanese government has informed Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga it plans to resume relocation work at Camp Schwab, a northern U.S. Marine Corps base, after a month of “intensive” talks failed to produce a deal.

It was as if somebody had flipped a switch. In the two-week run-up to a military parade in Beijing on Thursday the Chinese capital’s notoriously polluted sky was an azure blue.

As China and Russia boost their military presence in the resource-rich far north, U.S. intelligence agencies are scrambling to study potential threats in the Arctic for the first time since the Cold War, a sign of the region’s growing strategic importance.

A key suspect in last month's deadly Bangkok bombing was transferred Monday to police custody after a week of military interrogation, and was asked to acknowledge the charge against him before police and the media.

North and South Korea started talks at a border village Monday on resuming the reunions of families separated by the Korean War in the early 1950s, Seoul officials said.

Australia's prime minister said Monday that his country will resettle a "significant" number of refugees from Syria this year, while the opposition called for an additional 10,000 refugee places to help the world cope with a humanitarian crisis.

Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday she does not need to apologize for using a private email account and server while at the State Department because "what I did was allowed."

Signs of an ongoing Russian military buildup in Syria have drawn U.S. concerns and raised questions of whether Moscow plans to enter the conflict.