Новости за 17.12.2015

The New Orleans City Council has voted in favor of removing prominent Confederate monuments along some of its busiest streets - a sweeping move by a city seeking to break with its Confederate past.

Since last year, Turkish troops have been at this base near the Islamic State-occupied city of Mosul, quietly training a 6,500-strong militia made up of Sunni Muslim, Christian and Yazidi volunteers. But the arrival of additional Turkish troops and tanks this month triggered a political firestorm in Baghdad.

Defense Secretary Ash Carter has ordered U.S. Navy leaders to buy fewer ships so the service can spend more on jets such as the F-35 as well as munitions and upgraded systems for electronic warfare.

In 2012, U.S. soldiers told Navy SEAL command that they saw SEALs and Afghan police they worked with brutally beating detainees, according to the New York Times. The abuse was so severe that one of the prisoners died within a day. But the SEAL command cleared the members of SEAL Team 2 of wrongdoing.

An exhaustive report in the New York Times calls into question the image of heroism and self-discipline that the Navy has carefully cultivated for its elite SEAL teams, particularly since the May 2011 raid in Pakistan that killed Osama bin Laden.

Breast-feeding soldiers will no longer have to use restrooms as milk expressing stations under an updated Army policy that also ensures their commanders provide mothers adequate lactation breaks.

Breast-feeding soldiers will no longer have to use restrooms as milk expressing stations under an updated Army policy that also ensures their commanders provide mothers adequate lactation breaks.

OK, so maybe he was mixing his Star Wars and Star Trek references. But when President Barack Obama spoke of getting congressional leaders into a Jedi mind meld back in 2013, eight years after the last Star Wars movie had come out, he was displaying in one small way just how firmly the franchise had rooted itself in our popular culture.

The United States and Cuba have struck a deal to allow as many as 110 regular airline flights a day, allowing a surge of American travel to Cuba that could eventually flood the island with hundreds of thousands more U.S. visitors a year, officials said Thursday on the anniversary of detente between the Cold War foes.

This is the film we’re looking for. “The Force Awakens” understands what Star Wars fans love and delivers it lavishly.

The American soldier’s capture was a gift from God to the Taliban, the militants said; he was like “a golden chicken.” They thought so even after 15 of their fighters were killed in a raid by U.S. forces trying their hardest in the summer of 2009 to find Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl.

The United Nations' "gross institutional failure" to act on allegations that French and other peacekeepers sexually abused children in the Central African Republic led to even more assaults, according to a new report released Thursday.

The Navy has assigned Rear Adm. Rick Williamson to lead its shore command overseeing bases between Rota, Spain, and Bahrain.

A lot of very talented and likable people came together to make "Sisters." Stars Tina Fey and Amy Poehler are much beloved for their iconic TV characters, longtime "Saturday Night Live" writer Paula Pell contributes the screenplay, and "Pitch Perfect" director Jason Moore takes on helming duties. It's a shame then, that with all these fine creators, this scattershot comedy just doesn't gel in the way that it should.

Imagine trying to aim a rocket launcher while standing on the wing of a small plane as it flies through an intense anti-aircraft barrage.

Authorities are investigating death of an Army military police officer who was found dead Monday inside her patrol car at Stuttgart Army Airfield.

The No. 1 U.S. defense contractor, Lockheed Martin Corp., is going to court to fight a government decision awarding a $6.75 billion deal to replace the U.S. Army's Humvee combat vehicle to a company that ranked No. 99 last year.

Russia’s recent demonstrations of its naval capability have stunned military observers and drawn scrutiny from the U.S. Navy, which has issued its first report in more than two decades on the status and future of Russia’s navy.

U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy reiterated support for ongoing efforts to relocate a Marine base on Okinawa and advocated for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, during a press conference Thursday.

The murder of the young Syrian activist took place close enough to his family's home that his youngest brother heard his piercing scream. Ibrahim Abdelqader's attackers stabbed him dozens of times and left his partially decapitated corpse hanging from a doorframe.

Tunisians who won the Nobel Peace Prize joined townspeople in the country's beleaguered heartland to mark five years since a desperate street vendor set himself on fire, unwittingly setting in motion upheaval across the Arab world.

Republicans are ready to whip a year-end tax-cut compromise through the House as Congress prepares to finish 2015 in a flurry of accomplishment that belies the partisan collisions sure to dominate the coming election year.

Russia is ready to improve ties with the United States and work with whomever is elected its next president, President Vladimir Putin said Thursday. He said his talks with U.S. Secretary John Kerry earlier this week showed that Washington is ready to "move toward settling the issues that can only be settled through joint efforts."

The United States ramped up pressure Wednesday on Turkey to pull unauthorized troops from Iraq, aiming to defuse a dispute that has rankled relations between two countries central to the fight against the Islamic State group.