Новости за 07.12.2015

President Barack Obama appears to be playing catchup to the national mood on terrorism.

The husband and wife who carried out the San Bernardino massacre had been radicalized and had taken part in target practice, once within days of the attack that killed 14 people, the FBI said Monday.

Sunnis don’t trust an America that turned their world upside down with the 2003 invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein. Tribal leaders have been our default Sunni strategy ever since: But it’s a corrupt bargain on both sides.

Polls show Americans are more willing to send U.S. ground troops into the fight against Islamic State. If that happens, it would be volunteers like those of you on active duty or in Reserve and National Guard units who would bear the sacrifice.

The Navy's new stealth destroyer began a week of sea trials Monday to try and prove that after years of setbacks, the next-generation warship was worth the wait.

Seventy-four years ago today, any illusions that the world wasn’t at war were shattered when torpedoes and bombs of the Imperial Japanese Navy rained down on Pearl Harbor, plunging America into World War II.

When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor 74 years ago, five midget submarines — 80-feet-long, battery-powered craft, crewed by two men and equipped with two deadly torpedoes — made their way toward the harbor early that day. Most have forgotten the part these small craft played in the attack.

The amphibious warship John P. Murtha is 90 percent complete and heading to sea trials early next year. The project is moving forward, and its progress makes a larger statement about the current business climate at the shipyard in Pascagoula, Miss.

It's been almost three-quarters of a century since Japanese fighter pilots soared across the waters off Oahu and tried to kill William Hardy Burt and his fellow G.I.s, stationed at Naval Air Station Kaneohe, a few miles northeast of Pearl Harbor.

The National Pearl Harbor Survivors Association dissolved in 2011 because so few members were left. But that didn’t stop these locals from continuing to meet.

The U.S. Naval Academy is preparing to open its screening process for Navy SEAL training next year to women who are juniors at the academy, the superintendent said Monday.

A Pentagon official says the U.S. killed a senior leader of the al-Shabab extremist group in an airstrike last week in Somalia.

One said he couldn't afford the bullets to load his gun in Syria, while another compared carrying a Kalashnikov to wearing a superhero costume. Most of the six men on trial in Paris for their alleged roles in a recruiting network for European Islamic extremist fighters portray themselves as amateur holy warriors grappling with a conflict way over their heads.

The Department of Homeland Security is planning to add a new level to its terrorism advisory system to better reflect a "new phase" in the global terrorist threat against the homeland, DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson said Monday.

Shakespeare stole from classic texts like a kleptomaniac, carrying their complex plots, star-crossed lovers and antique events back to his Globe Theatre. Dr. Dre created multiplatinum albums by sampling well-known recordings into new hip-hop harmonies.

Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic announced Monday he is firing the defense minister after he made a sexist remark to a female journalist.

The U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State last month dropped the most bombs in its 16-month campaign in Iraq and Syria, according to new Air Force data.

A senior U.S. military official says the United States is "certain" that it was a Russian airstrike that killed three Syrian soldiers and wounded 13 others.

Syria on Monday accused the U.S.-led coalition of bombing an army camp in the eastern part of the country, killing three Syrian soldiers and wounding 13, but a senior U.S. military official said the Pentagon is "certain" the strike was from a Russian warplane.

In a victory for gun-control advocates, the Supreme Court on Monday rejected a 2nd Amendment challenge to laws that forbid the sale or possession of semiautomatic weapons that carry more than 10 rounds of ammunition.

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden assured Ukraine Monday of continuing U.S. support and announced the release of an additional $190 million in U.S. aid to help support reforms.

The largest destroyer ever built for the U.S. Navy headed out to sea for the first time Monday, departing from shipbuilder Bath Iron Works and carefully navigating the winding Kennebec River before reaching the open ocean where the ship will undergo sea trials.

A German court says a 93-year-old former SS sergeant will go on trial early next year on 170,000 counts of accessory to murder over allegations he served as an Auschwitz death camp guard.

Yemen's warring parties have agreed to hold peace talks in Switzerland next week, the U.N. special envoy said Monday.

With this decision, President Barack Obama has acknowledged that the Islamic State group can’t be defeated without some U.S. troops fighting on the ground. If the first expeditionary forces succeed, they will almost surely be followed by more.