Новости за 03.01.2016

Gunmen stormed a building in the city of Mazar-i-Sharif Sunday evening, prompting a shootout with security forces, an Afghan official said.

Col. Douglas Schiess will rack up even more frequent flier miles in 2016 as he travels to some to the most remote spots on the planet as boss of the 21st Space Wing.

Military families can learn how to help troops and veterans struggling with mental illness during classes offered by the National Alliance on Mental Illness in Colorado Springs.

What started off as a simple idea among three Fort Bliss wives to help their colleagues has quickly gained notoriety — like a designer dress flying off the department store racks.

Jacksonville is a military town, and it’s filled with veterans who have served and fought for their country. Some of those veterans need a little extra help, and NCWorks is answering the call.

In the offices of the Inland Regional Center, Christmas did not come. The staff was still gearing up for the holidays on Dec. 2, the day 14 people were massacred on the center's gleaming campus.

The French military says its warplanes have destroyed a site in Syria used by Islamic State extremists to produce missiles and store weapons.

Orville Sova, 88, spent the last years of his life waiting for the U.S. Congress to recognize fully the role the U.S. Merchant Marine played in the Allies’ victory in World War II. Sova, of Collinsville, had served with the civilian-run cargo arm of the American war effort. He died Nov. 6.

For nearly a decade, Sheppard Military Affairs Committee President Tom Whaylen has been an advocate for Sheppard Air Force Base.

Merkel’s failure to recognize an essential reality — for Putin, economics is war by other means — suggests that solidarity now seems to stop at Germany’s frontiers.

The trickiest military questions for the next president will involve what strategist Michael Mazarr calls “gray-zone conflicts.” U.S. adversaries exploit power gaps.

Robert O. Blake, a career Foreign Service officer and former U.S. ambassador to Mali who participated in Cold War diplomacy both in Moscow and in Washington, died Dec. 28 at his home in the District. He was 94.

Donald Trump won't be dissuaded from saying what he thinks simply because Islamic extremists use his words to recruit Muslims to their cause.

Officials say they have killed two people and arrested three others linked to the slaying of a Mexico mayor who had taken office only a day earlier. The state's governor said organized crime was behind the attack.

It’s easy to dismiss the little support Huckabee and Santorum have to transfer to anyone, but it’s also not hard to see how even a fairly small Anybody But Cruz movement among social conservatives could make a big difference.

Yemeni government forces clashed Sunday with militant groups for control over the strategic Port of Aden in the southern city with the same name, Yemeni government officials said.

Democracy is becoming the accepted way of life for the world’s population overall, not just the privileged few. Reasonably honest and genuinely contested elections are spreading in Africa, Asia, the former Soviet Union and — at least on local levels — China.

American politics often has had quirky aspects.

Since it opened in 2000, the Oresund bridge between Sweden and Denmark has been a towering symbol of European integration and hassle-free travel across borders that people didn't even notice were there.

Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shiite Iran are locked in a bitter rivalry, and support opposite sides in the wars in Syria and Yemen.

Saudi Arabia's severing of diplomatic ties with Iran may force the Islamic Republic to stop its citizens from going on hajj, a prominent lawmaker said Monday, as world leaders sought to cool tensions between the two Mideast rivals.

The execution of a Shiite cleric in Sunni-ruled Saudi Arabia has laid bare the divisions now gripping the Middle East, as protesters set fire Sunday to the kingdom's embassy in Tehran and demonstrators took to the streets from Bahrain to Pakistan.

U.S. President Barack Obama is returning to the rancor of the nation's capital after two weeks of fun and sun in his native Hawaii, saying he's "fired up" for his final year in office and ready to tackle unfinished business.

A United States official says his government has shut down its drone operation base in southern Ethiopia.

The long-awaited indictment follows months of investigations into a web of Jewish extremists operating in the West Bank.