Новости за 04.12.2015

American F-16 fighter pilots deployed to Afghanistan say their mission hasn’t changed in the last year, even though the international military force here has transitioned to a more advisory role.

North Korea is very tentatively toying with some capitalist ideas, setting up about 20 special economic zones around the country, allowing farmers to keep and sell more of their produce, and tolerating more nascent activity in the jangmadang, or local markets, around the country.

Germany stepped up its contribution to the fight against the Islamic State group on Friday, with lawmakers overwhelmingly voting in favor of sending reconnaissance jets, a tanker plane and a frigate to provide broad noncombat support to the U.S.-led coalition flying airstrikes against the militants.

The FBI said Friday it now considers the mass shooting that killed 14 people in San Bernardino a terrorist attack, an announcement that came as authorities were investigating a posting from one of the attackers pledging allegiance to the leader of the Islamic State.

The woman who carried out the California mass shooting with her husband had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group and its leader on Facebook, a U.S. law enforcement official said Friday

Belgian and French authorities were hunting two new suspects Friday in the Paris attacks who they say used fake identity cards around Europe and sent money to a relative of the man who orchestrated the attacks the day before the ringleader died in a shootout with French police.

U.S. Special Operations Command, headquartered at MacDill Air Force Base in Florida, will play a major role in carrying out the decision by Defense Secretary Ash Carter to open all military positions to qualified women.

U.S. Special Operations Command, headquartered at MacDill Air Force Base in Florida, will play a major role in carrying out the decision by Defense Secretary Ash Carter to open all military positions to qualified women.

From eliminating the Islamic State to figuring out how to handle concealed weapons on campus, University of Texas Chancellor Bill, the former U.S. special operations commander, had plenty to talk about at the Dallas Citizens Council annual meeting Thursday.

Four Palestinians wounded several Israeli soldiers in separate attacks on Friday before they were shot and killed by Israeli forces, the military said, the latest violence in more than two months of almost daily Palestinian assaults against civilians and soldiers.

Saudi Arabia began an investigation Friday after an aid group said the kingdom's coalition targeting Shiite rebels in Yemen struck one of its clinics, the second such strike in recent months.

Syrian government warplanes carried out airstrikes Friday on two suburbs of the Syrian capital, Damascus, killing at least 22 people, opposition activists said.

The biggest question facing the nation's largest military shipbuilder is how will Congress pay for the next generation of ballistic missile submarines, the head of Huntington Ingalls Industries said Thursday.

Two men who were denied entry to a nightclub later returned with others and firebombed it early Friday, setting off a blaze that killed all 16 people who were trapped inside by the smoke and flames, authorities said.

For the second day in a row, foul weather threatened to stall a critical space station delivery for NASA on Friday.

The two San Bernardino, California, attackers sought to cover their tracks by damaging some personal electronic devices, a senior U.S. law enforcement official said Friday as investigators struggled to learn what prompted the rampage that claimed at least 14 lives.

Long before the Friday release of Spike Lee’s latest movie, “Chi-Raq,” the film’s theme and tone stirred controversy, particularly in the city where it’s set, Chicago.

It used to be that "thoughts and prayers" was the least controversial thing a politician could tweet - the bereavement equivalent of a baby-kissing photo-op. But on Tuesday, two shooters in San Bernardino, California, attacked a social services center, killing 14. And then a mob of frustrated Twitter users attacked that phrase.

An 11-year-old boy arrested by soldiers says Boko Haram trained him as a suicide bomber and his mission was to blow himself up among refugees in a northeast Nigerian camp.

After years of trying to balance security needs with privacy rights, the European Union agreed Friday on a system to share airline passenger information, paving the way for closer scrutiny of extremists.

The German government has distanced itself from a report by the country's spy agency that suggested Saudi Arabia's ambitious young defense minister could endanger the Gulf kingdom's ties with regional allies.

The U.S. government and an international humanitarian organization on Friday asked a judge to reject attempts by Texas to block Syrian refugees from resettling in the state, and revealed that the number expected to arrive in the state within a week has more than doubled.

Newport News Shipbuilding told 738 workers Friday that they will be laid off in February.

German lawmakers on Friday overwhelmingly approved a broad noncombat mission to aid the fight against Islamic State militants, sending reconnaissance jets and a frigate following France's call for help after last month's deadly attacks in Paris.