Новости за 08.10.2015

Top brass at a Colorado Army post are all smiles after a 2-year-old girl interrupted a general's speech to dash across the room and hug her dad, who had just come home from a nine-month deployment.

The one certainty about the war in Vietnam was that the soldier next to you had your back — regardless of skin color.

Don’t worry, the flagging of the resource boom is a good thing. A petrostate is the last thing the U.S. should want to become.

A Green Beret who may be pushed out of the Army for beating up an alleged child rapist sees a parallel between the U.S. military's failure to stop child rape in Afghanistan and a scandal at home: The abuse of children in the Penn State University football program.

As many as four of the 26 long-range cruise missiles that Russia said it fired at Syrian targets landed instead in Iran, U.S. defense officials said Thursday.

Spencer Stone, the U.S. airman who helped thwart a gunman’s attack on a Paris-bound train, is expected to make a full recovery from injuries suffered Thursday in a fight outside a Sacramento, Calif. bar, an Air Force spokesman said Friday.

Russia's military moves in Syria are fundamentally changing the face of the country's civil war, putting President Bashar al-Assad back on his feet, and may complicate the Obama administration's plans to expand its air operations against the Islamic State.

In the wake of last week's mass shooting in Oregon, gun control advocates called for new restrictions on weapons as a way of preventing such tragedies. Gun rights advocates argued this approach was all wrong. The answer to mass shootings wasn't less guns; it was more. Now an interesting example has been tossed into the middle of this ideological tussle: As a suspected thief tries to escape from a Home Depot security official, a bystander pulls out her concealed pistol and fires.

Russia's military offensive in Syria is only a week old, but the casualties for American foreign policy are already mounting. Gone is any slim hope President Barack Obama might once have had about gradually improving relations with Iran, whose military envoys are helping buttress Syria's President Bashar al-Assad while Russia provides air cover.

A British pilot trying to take off was hit in a German bombing raid. His plane caught fire, skittered across the airfield and came to rest not far from Pilot Officer Tom "Ginger" Neil's quarters. Neil, then 20, rushed out to see what was going on and watched as the pilot burned to death in the cockpit.

Beyond short-term tactics, Clinton’s militancy also illustrates that gun control is no longer a political third rail for Democrats.

Today’s uses of the Second Amendment may invoke James Madison and Alexander Hamilton, but they have a lot more to do with interest-group politics.

The U.S. military aircraft that attacked an Afghan hospital over the weekend made at least five passes over it dropping explosives, even though two flags draped across the roof of the building marked it as a medical facility, hospital officials said Thursday.

U.S. Airman 1st Class Spencer Stone, one of three Americans hailed as a hero after helping thwart a gunman on a Paris-bound train in August, was stabbed early Thursday morning in Sacramento, Calif., an Air Force official said.

Attorneys for an American accused of stabbing a South Korean college student to death nearly two decades ago said during a hearing Thursday their client has already served time on other charges related to the case and is being unfairly tried.

The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan on Thursday estimated that more than half of Taliban insurgents could be open to peace talks with the Afghan government, but that negotiations probably won't resume for months.

Syria's top general on Thursday said Russian strikes had helped government forces launch a "wide-ranging" offensive in central and northwestern Syria, where al-Qaida's affiliate as well as other insurgents had advanced toward key government strongholds in recent months.

Continued U.S. engagement is crucial, and goes beyond forces on the ground.

Female veterans who try to take their own lives are often successful at a far higher rate than their female non-veteran counterparts because of one reason: They use guns.

American military communities throughout Europe are doing their part to provide clothing and other aid to refugees flooding to the continent in the greatest numbers since the end of World War II.

The extension, approved on Oct. 2 by Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work, extends the departure window until Nov. 2 for dependents wanting to return home.

VA Secretary Bob McDonald told the House Veterans Affairs Committee Wednesday that a $68 million, 4000-page study of VA health care it ordered last year and accepted last month uncovers the same weaknesses and solutions McDonald and his policy team have been tackling for months.

An Arab attacker stabbed four Israelis with a screwdriver on Thursday before a soldier shot and killed him amid fresh violence that prompted Israel's premier to bar Cabinet ministers and lawmakers from a sensitive Jerusalem holy site at the heart of the latest tensions.

Unidentified gunmen fired multiple shots at a Tunisian sports magnate and legislator on Thursday near the resort city where an Islamic extremist killed 38 tourists at a luxury hotel last summer.

NATO agreed on Thursday to push further into eastern Europe with the establishment of two new military headquarters as a check against a more assertive Russia.