Новости за 18.09.2015

President Barack Obama on Friday nominated Eric Fanning to be the next secretary of the Army, along with new undersecretaries for the Navy and Air Force. If confirmed, Fanning will be the first openly gay Army secretary.

Kazakhstan's Defense Ministry says at least four soldiers drowned when four armored vehicles sank during a military exercise on the Caspian coast.

Britain has asked police and intelligence agencies to report on the state of banned militant groups in Northern Ireland, after claims of IRA activity brought the province's Catholic-Protestant administration close to collapse.

Just days after the head of U.S. Central Command testified that only a handful of U.S.-trained Syrian fighters remained in the fight against the Islamic State, a CENTCOM spokesman said Friday that additional New Syrian Forces have joined them on the battlefield.

A board to move and close unneeded hospitals — such as the military system to shutter old bases — is one of the recommendations in a landmark independent review of the VA released Friday.

Japan’s Diet enacted the nation’s broadest changes to its defense laws since World War II early Saturday, following several hours of last-ditch efforts by opposition parties to derail the legislation.

Japan’s Diet enacted the nation’s broadest changes to its defense laws since World War II early Saturday, following several hours of last-ditch efforts by opposition parties to derail the legislation.

A look at what's at stake as Japan's parliament moves to approve legislation that would loosen post-World War II constraints placed on its self-defense forces.

A look at what's at stake as Japan's parliament moves to approve legislation that would loosen post-World War II constraints placed on its military.

Federal authorities are mobilizing one of the largest security operations in U.S. history ahead of Pope Francis's arrival Tuesday, an effort that is straining law enforcement resources in Washington, New York and Philadelphia.

A new independent review of the Department of Veterans Affairs released Friday found the agency needs widespread changes to emerge from its ongoing crisis – and should consider scaling back health care to specific military-related conditions as one option.

Twelve A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft and about 300 airmen from the 23rd Wing at Moody Air Force Base, Ga., will deploy to bases across Europe as a Theater Security Package, the second such deployment of A-10s to Europe since February, U.S. European Command said in a statement.

Twelve A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft and about 300 airmen from the 23rd Wing at Moody Air Force Base, Ga., will deploy to bases across Europe as a Theater Security Package, the second such deployment of A-10s to Europe since February, U.S. European Command said in a statement.

Just 10 airmen provide the support of an entire wing for the hundreds of personnel and accompanying aircraft rotating into Poland on a steady basis since Russia’s intervention in Ukraine last year.

Secretary of Defense Ash Carter and Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu spent 50 minutes on the phone early Friday to discuss what is necessary for both nations to conduct operations in Syria, as Russia continues its buildup of a new air base there.

Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s former squad leader was concerned that the soldier was not adapting well to his deployment, but when he mentioned the matter to the unit’s first sergeant, the squad leader was rebuked for speaking up, according to testimony during a hearing on Bergdahl’s desertion charges.

Democratic and Democratic-leaning nonwhite voters have not only stuck with Clinton as their choice to head the party's ticket in next year's general election, but far more of them say she is honest and that they approve of how she's handled the long-running debate of her use of a private e-mail server when she led the State Department.

The 173rd Airborne Brigade sent three soldiers to the 2015 European Best Warrior Competition, and two of them won the title, beating out 20 peers.

Director Wes Ball didn’t mean to have a signature hat. He can’t even remember where he got the tattered, sweat-stained, beige baseball cap with the white embroidered “Catskill Mountains” stitching. But he knows one thing for sure — he’s not taking it off anytime soon, and definitely not during production.

Nearly all Western humanitarian organizations have been blocked from operating in separatist-controlled parts of eastern Ukraine for close to two months, and they fear that unless the situation is reversed, civilians could lose access to critical assistance when winter sets in.

Omar Hussein, a former supermarket security guard who left Britain to join the Islamic State, seems devoted to fighting infidels and helping to establish a caliphate in Syria and Iraq. But evidently he has discovered a downside: fellow fighters borrowing cellphone chargers without permission.

Ukrainian prosecutors are preparing charges against the director of a winery in Russian-occupied Crimea for allegedly uncorking a 240-year-old bottle for Russian President Vladimir Putin and former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi.

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump declined to correct a questioner at a town hall event who incorrectly stated that President Barack Obama is Muslim, and the billionaire real estate mogul said he'd be "looking at" a claim that militants operate training camps on American soil.

The Obama administration eased rules Friday for U.S. citizens wishing to travel to Cuba or do business with its growing ranks of independent entrepreneurs, hoping to kindle greater economic freedom on the island.

Service and sacrifice are pounded into military recruits from basic training. They are amplified during Chiefs’ Season, the six-week period that takes selected first class petty officers and molds them into chief petty officers, the gruff middle managers of the Navy. And so for this group of chief selects, stationed at or near the U.S. Navy base in Naples, Nettuno offered a fitting end to a season built around tradition.