Новости за 19.02.2016

A military official says shots were fired at a base in Virginia, but no injuries have been reported.

The sounds of 30mm rounds fired from AH–64D Apache Longbows pierced through the blue as the 1–82 Attack Reconnaissance Battalion continued training.

State Rep. Jack Hennessy, D-Bridgeport, co-chairman of the Connecticut legislature's Veterans' Affairs Committee, is proposing to change the state law that requires both parties to be present when applying for a marriage license.

In another setback to international efforts to resolve Syria's devastating civil war, peace talks are not to resume next week in Geneva, a U.N. envoy announced as Turkey on Friday intensified cross-border artillery shelling on areas dominated by Syria's U.S.-backed, mostly Kurdish militia.

Colombia's largest rebel group is pushing back against the government's suspension of travel permits for peace negotiators in Cuba saying a surprise political rally Thursday didn't violate any ground rules for visits aimed at explaining agreements to their fighters

Sen. Bernie Sanders is either a dogged fighter for veterans’ benefits, a leftist blinded to a nationwide veterans’ care scandal by his faith in government, or a pragmatic compromiser who reached across the aisle when major legislation for vets was on the line.

Bowe Bergdahl believed in an honor code that demanded action to right wrongs, no matter how futile the effort. He believed that a man should never bow to a corrupt system. And he also believed that his brigade commander might try to kill his own soldiers by sending them on a suicide mission.

The government in Warsaw has spent its less than four months in power on a collision course with adversaries in the European Union, the nation's banks and even credit rating agencies. As it tries to remold Poland's relationship with the world, it's also setting out to rewrite the history of its fight with communism.

The supposed sorry state of U.S. intelligence, along with the need to fix it, remains an easy applause line on the campaign trail. "When I'm president, we are going to rebuild our intelligence capabilities, and they're going to tell us where the terrorists are," Marco Rubio said at the Republican presidential debate in late January. But are U.S. intelligence capabilities really that bad?

Russia has agreed to provide a $200 million loan to Armenia to fund the purchase of Russian weapons.

When Alyce Sugiyama hears U.S. presidential hopeful Donald Trump provoke fear and anger over Syrian refugees, Muslim-Americans and immigrants in general, the 90-year-old Sonoma County native recalls the four years she spent in a Japanese internment camp during World War II.

Lech Walesa, Poland's legendary anti-communist leader and former president, on Friday denied renewed allegations that he informed on people to the communist regime or took money from the secret security service.

Saudi Arabia announced on Friday it is halting deals worth $4 billion aimed at equipping and supporting Lebanese security forces in retaliation for the tiny country's siding with Iran amid the Sunni kingdom's spat with the Shiite power.

American warplanes attacked an Islamic State terrorist training camp in Libya overnight Friday, killing more than 30 militants in a strike targeting one of the group’s top operatives in the region, according to Pentagon officials.

American warplanes attacked an Islamic State terrorist training camp in Libya overnight Friday, killing more than 30 militants in a strike targeting one of the group’s top operatives in the region, according to Pentagon officials.

Few people in the world could claim to really understand Harper Lee, the elusive author of "To Kill a Mockingbird," who has died at 89 in Monroeville, Ala.

Beijing’s deployment of surface-to-air missiles to an island in the Paracel chain of the contested South China Sea is a potential game changer that could ultimately lay the groundwork for the creation of an air defense identification zone (ADIZ) in the disputed waters, analysts say.

Three British nationals have been jailed pending trial on weapons possession charges after being arrested over the weekend near Greece's border with Turkey.

A Kurdish militant group on Friday claimed responsibility for a suicide car bomb attack in the Turkish capital Ankara which killed 28 people.

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni's security forces used strong-arm tactics in the middle of an election Friday, arresting the main opposition candidate, beating protesters and firing tear gas and stun grenades at them in the capital.

Friday’s early rounds were all about giving oneself a chance to be there at the end.

Justice Antonin Scalia's flag-draped casket was placed in the U.S. Supreme Court's ceremonial hallway before a crowd of mourners that included somber and tearful colleagues, family members and former law clerks.

Americans hankering for some sweet, gooey buns of baked dough to increase their belt size will no longer be able to satisfy those cravings at the Kaiserslautern Military Community Center.

After losing a $6.7 billion contract bid to build 17,000 Joint Light Tactical Vehicles and filing a lawsuit in December, Lockheed Martin Corp. has dropped its legal challenge of the contract awarded to Oshkosh Defense.

Pennsylvania state veterans officials anticipate the state Department of Health will inspect the Gino J. Merli Veterans Center in Scranton sometime in April or May as the facility tries to get its license restored.