Новости за 09.12.2015

Singapore's defense minister said Wednesday that Islamic State fighters pose a "clear and present danger" to Southeast Asia as they return from Syria and Iraq with a mission to establish a caliphate.

Hillary Clinton accused Republicans of undermining American efforts to fight Islamic terrorism, saying Wednesday that the "hateful" campaign rhetoric of frontrunner Donald Trump and the rest of the GOP field is providing new material for Islamic State propaganda.

More than six months after his eldest son, Beau, died of brain cancer and six weeks after effectively ending his political career, Vice President Joe Biden is mostly at peace.

Two Afghan men who were training with the U.S. military are missing from a base in south Georgia, but officials say that they were screened before entering the country and that there's no indication they pose a threat.

Defense Secretary Ash Carter said the United States is willing to send more American troops and attack helicopters to aid Iraqi security forces in their fight against the Islamic State group if they want it.

Speaking at a Capitol Hill ceremony marking the 150th anniversary of the abolition of slavery, President Barack Obama detailed the efforts of previous generations to fight discrimination, and said Americans today must be willing to do what they did.

Many American Muslims say they are living through a difficult time in this country. For the Muslims who are former and current servicemembers, the prejudice and anti-Muslim rhetoric is particularly painful.

The deputy secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs said Wednesday that two executives under federal investigation for collecting $400,000 in a relocation scheme are actually innocent of any crimes or ethical lapses.

States with large military bases are filling what is traditionally the federal government's role by picking up the tab for construction and repairs, saying they can't afford not to.

A little more than a year after commanding international forces in Afghanistan, Gen. Joseph Dunford returned to the country in a different role but to a familiar landscape Tuesday in his first visit as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

An American flag whips in the wind above the reopened U.S. Embassy in Cuba. Many of the thousands of foreign visitors strolling down the cobblestone streets of Old Havana are booking their stays through Airbnb.

Iraqi forces dispatched additional reinforcements to capture Ramadi Wednesday after seizing strategic parts of the city from the Islamic State a day earlier, dealing a blow to the militant group.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has asked Britain to send aviation experts to examine data from the black box belonging to the Russian warplane downed over the Turkish-Syria border last month.

The S.C. military museum considering a $5.3 million expansion to display the Confederate flag only attracts about 22,000 visitors a year. Those details emerged Tuesday as a state Senate panel urged the museum's director to increase ticket sales and raise more money from private sources.

Syrian officials say the first stage of rebel evacuation from their last stronghold in Syria's central city of Homs has begun.

The attack in San Bernardino has put tech firms under new pressure to do more to fight terrorist recruitment, propaganda and plotting online, alarming Silicon Valley companies that have previously succeeded in blocking government efforts that they say would undermine privacy.

The NFL's quest to become safer has extended to an Army lab at Aberdeen Proving Ground, where rubbery, fluid-filled straps tether a crash test dummy's football helmet to its body.

Police in Tokyo have arrested a South Korean man suspected of causing an explosion last month in a public restroom at a controversial shrine in Tokyo that honors Japanese war dead.

A delay in reporting the presence of an aging ammunition dump on Fort Wainwright, near the Tanana River, has led the Army to settle a claim from the Environmental Protection Agency for nearly $60,000.

Police have arrested a former Bosnian army general suspected of war crimes against Serb prisoners of war during the 1992-95 war.

Manohard Parrikar became the first Indian defense minister to visit U.S. Pacific Command headquarters in Hawaii on Monday, a sign of continuing improvement for the nations’ military relations.

Decades of reckless arms trading and the poorly regulated flow of weapons into Iraq have contributed to the Islamic State group's accumulation of a "vast and varied" arsenal, an international rights group said Tuesday.

A daylong siege at a heavily fortified airport in southern Afghanistan has left at least 37 civilians dead and another 35 wounded as Taliban militants tried to fight their way onto an adjacent military base, an Afghan Defense Ministry official said Wednesday.

Freshman basketball players Dominic Laffitte and Jordan Wakefield went into their first DODDS-Europe games last weekend questioning just how well they’d handle a new level of competition.

Passengers remained trapped in an airport terminal Wednesday as Afghan security forces continued a deadly battle against insurgents who launched a complex attack on the edge of a major military base the day before.