Новости за 23.02.2016

Diplomats from the United States, Afghanistan, Pakistan and China urged the Taliban and their allies on Tuesday to participate in a new round of peace talks tentatively scheduled for the first week of March.

One of New Mexico’s most decorated war veterans, Miguel Encinias served in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War and was a former prisoner of war. He later helped oversee the creation of the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C.

One of New Mexico’s most decorated war veterans, Miguel Encinias served in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War and was a former prisoner of war. He later helped oversee the creation of the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C.

Turkish authorities on Tuesday confirmed the identity of the suicide bomber who killed 29 people in last week's suicide car bomb attack in Ankara as a Turkish man, the state-run agency reported.

U.S. Army and German government leaders held a community meeting Monday night to deal with concerns military community members might have about the refugees coming into Germany, particularly to Wiesbaden.

Police made two arrests Monday following the assault earlier this month of a decorated Marine outside a fast-food restaurant in Washington, D.C.

More than a thousand servicemembers, veterans and hobbyists joined together Saturday in a march and vehicle rally in the Ardennes Forest to mark the 71st anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge, Nazi Germany’s last-gasp offensive on the Western Front in World War II.

A top Obama administration official says the Islamic State group's ranks of foreign fighters have dropped to about 25,000 from a peak of 35,000.

Saudi Arabia is urging its citizens to leave Lebanon or avoid travelling there after cutting $4 billion in aid to Lebanese security forces.

Dozens of people have gone on trial in Istanbul accused of being part of the Islamic State group's Turkish network.

Almost three years after President Barack Obama highlighted the United States' growing dependence on drone strikes to prosecute its wars, his administration's policy on their use remains largely obscure, according to a new report published by the Stimson Center.

Hundreds of pro-Russian Serb nationalists have held a protest against government's deal that forges closer ties with NATO.

The Department of Veterans Affairs told the Senate on Tuesday that its plan to take sole control over firing executives could help fill dozens of vacant management posts at veteran medical facilities across the country.

Opponents of the Kosovo government's deals with Serbia and Montenegro have pitched tents in front of the main government building in the capital, demanding the government's resignation and fresh elections.

Secretary of State John Kerry told lawmakers he won't vouch for the success of the newly struck cease-fire agreement in Syria but said the truce negotiated with Russia is the best pathway for ending five years of violence that has killed more than 250,000 people and displaced another 11 million from their homes.

Some employees across the scandal-ridden Department of Veterans Affairs reacted with disbelief when two directors were reinstated Monday despite findings of wrongdoing and as VA Deputy Secretary Sloan Gibson tried to tamp down the controversy.

An Egyptian lawyer says a court in Cairo has ordered the release of the brother of al-Qaida's leader after he spent over two years in prison without trial over accusations he led a terrorist group.

German authorities say a woman has died from injuries sustained in a suicide bombing last month in Istanbul, bringing the number of people killed in the attack to 12.

The commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific said Tuesday that China is seeking control of East Asia, comments that could further inflame tensions between the two world powers.

The Italian government abused state secrecy to provide impunity in the abduction of an Egyptian cleric, who was spirited out of Italy for interrogation and torture in his homeland under the CIA's extraordinary rendition program, the European Court of Human Rights ruled Tuesday.

The Syrian government and the main umbrella for Syrian opposition and rebel groups announced on Tuesday they both conditionally accept a proposed U.S.-Russian cease fire that the international community hopes will bring them back to the negotiating table in Geneva for talks to end the war.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi meets Secretary of State John Kerry for talks this week as each country accuses the other of escalating military tensions in the western Pacific.

A French court has delayed its decision on whether authorities can evacuate a makeshift, muddy migrant camp in the northern city of Calais.

Libyans took to the streets in Benghazi on Tuesday, honking car horns and waving Libyan flags in celebration after army units, backed by civilian fighters, cleared a major part of this eastern city of Islamic extremists, following nearly two years of deadly fighting.

Afghan ground forces and coalition airstrikes have killed up to 43 Islamic State militants in attacks in eastern Afghanistan, officials said Tuesday.