Новости за 10.12.2015

With drones likely popular on Christmas and Chanukah gift lists, officials at MacDill Air Force Base are reminding people who live and work there not to fly them on base.

U.S.-led coalition airstrikes have killed at least 350 Islamic State militants in the last week as Iraqi security forces pushed deeper into Anbar province’s capital of Ramadi.

One more light might not add a great deal of brightness this holiday season. But a green light can carry a message that is different from the others. Greenlight A Vet is asking Americans to display a green light to honor military veterans.

One of the guns linked to Islamic militants in the Paris attacks that killed 130 people was exported to the United States in 2013, the head of a Serbian arms factory said Thursday.

Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter has warned delaying a budget deal to fund the rest of the fiscal year could “do real harm” as congressional leaders try to reach a spending agreement in the midst of a threat of a partial federal government shutdown at midnight Friday.

The gunman who killed his co-workers in San Bernardino, California, and the friend who bought the assault rifles used in the shooting were related through marriage and may have plotted an attack together three years ago.

Taking on critics in his own party, Republican presidential contender Ted Cruz on Thursday defended Middle East dictators as useful allies against Islamic extremists during a Washington address decrying political correctness and stricter gun laws as an impediment to national security.

An early-morning missile test in New Mexico left a white contrail that quickly turned into a corkscrew visible for hundreds of miles Thursday.

Two cheetahs used for animal control on a South African air base attacked an air force officer, slightly injuring her.

Moody Air Force Base officials are not releasing the names or photographs of two missing Afghan trainees. Anyone with information about the whereabouts of the men should contact base officials or local law enforcement, the command said.

A Fort Campbell Army sergeant has been sentenced to two years in prison following his guilty plea to a charge of conspiring to take bribes from vendors seeking contracts in Afghanistan.

An active duty Camp Lejeune Marine made his first court appearance Wednesday after he allegedly exposed himself to minors in traffic.

About 20 minutes after stealing away from his post, alone in the dark in the wilds of eastern Afghanistan, then-Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl realized just what he’d done.

Really, Trump is a guy Cruz admires? Good to know — before anyone casts his vote.

We have been witness to the reality that there are no people more passionate about their citizenship (and more enthusiastic about joining the military, it should be emphasized) than the children of immigrants.

The Air Force selected 176 enlisted Airmen for promotion via the December enlisted supplemental promotion process.

The top Air Force commander in Europe says he’s extremely troubled by Russia’s increasingly sophisticated air defenses and its ability to deny access to swathes of air space.

Retired Navy Lt. Cmdr. Rodric G. Hammond of Pensacola, Fla., said he was mystified when a blue-ribbon commission on military compensation declared last February that the triple-option Tricare benefit was “broken.”

Todd Haynes 1950s romance “Carol” landed a leading five nominations, including best dramatic picture, in nominations for the 73rd annual Golden Globes. Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s nominations, announced Thursday in Beverly Hills, California, spread nods around to a widespread field. Surging was Adam McKay’s finance farce “The Big Short,” which earned four nominations, including best picture, comedy.

Spoiler alert: Oscar Isaac’s X-wing pilot Poe Dameron does not break into song in “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.”

The chief of Afghanistan’s intelligence service, Rahmatullah Nabil, announced his resignation on Thursday after pointedly criticizing Pakistan and political interference by Afghan President Ashraf Ghani.

Iraqi officials say Islamic State militants have destroyed a lock on the Euphrates River that served as a bridge in Ramadi as government forces close in on the militant-held city west of Baghdad.

Talks in Saudi Arabia between various Syrian opposition factions have been "very constructive," but it's too soon to lock in a new international diplomatic meeting to begin a U.N.-led political process aimed at ending Syria's civil war, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday.

A Dutch court has convicted six Muslim men of membership of a terrorist network that aimed to recruit youngsters to fight with groups such as Islamic State in Syria.

The commando force that President Barack Obama is dispatching to Iraq to conduct clandestine raids against the Islamic State group does not fit neatly into a picture of the U.S. military strategy for defeating the extremist army.