Новости за 29.02.2016

Gone are opportunities to interview guards, meet with mental health professionals, taste a detainee meal and compare life in maximum-security detention for those who misbehave to those in communal captivity and get many more privileges.

It was a year of two films. Until it wasn’t. It was a year of small but well-placed surprises, right up to the end. It was the year “Spotlight,” the third film on everyone’s list of top three finishers, came from behind and walked off with the best picture trophy.

A prosecutor told a jury Monday that a U.S. Air Force veteran wanted to join the Islamic State group and die a martyr, but a defense lawyer countered that the federal case was a fantasy.

Lt. Gen. Raymond “Tony” Thomas has been nominated to be the new leader of U.S. Special Operations Command. He would replace Gen. Joseph Votel, who is leaving SOCOM to become the commander of U.S. Central Command.

Michael Lumpkin, by his own admission, is not much of a social media guy. “I don’t do Facebook. I don’t have a Twitter handle. I’m not on LinkedIn,” Lumpkin told a room full of special operations types from around the globe last week. “Those who know me know that I am not really a sociable guy, so that makes a lot of sense for me,”

U.S. cyberattacks to disrupt the Islamic State's communications and overload their networks could force the militant group to use older technologies that are easier for the U.S. to intercept, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Monday.

Places in Japan and South Korea to celebrate the bloom.

Secretary of Defense Ash Carter on Monday defended his focus on personnel reforms during a time of war, contending that improving conditions for servicemembers is necessary to prepare the U.S. military for future conflicts.

If terrorists attacked one or more of America’s nuclear missiles in the northern Great Plains, U.S. military personnel would not be able to respond effectively, because their Vietnam-era helicopters are not up to the task, according to lawmakers, U.S. military leaders and Defense Department documents.

Eight years after Kosovo declared its independence from Serbia, five European Union states still refuse to recognize it. They need to relent. They are contributing to an economic and security sinkhole in the heart of the Balkans — and if history is any guide, that’s a bad idea.

A transcript of the Medal of Honor ceremony for Senior Chief Petty Officer Edward C. Byers Jr. on Feb. 29, 2016, as provided by the White House.

Given that we are now nearly 15 years into the war on terror, the absence of a wartime veteran is all the more inexcusable.

U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard resigned her post as a vice chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee on Sunday, allowing her to formally endorse Bernie Sanders for president.

The Army staff sergeant accused of killing his wife and a Prince William County, Virginia, police officer was held without bond Monday after being arraigned.

Pakistan said Monday at the start of talks with the United States that a contentious sale of F-16 fighter jets would strengthen the South Asian nation's ability to mount counter-terrorist operations and promote regional stability.

From Virginia Beach to the Gulf Coast of Texas, Republican presidential candidates skipped across the South this weekend, spending mere hours on the ground in some states before hopping charter flights to the next, underscoring Super Tuesday's different electoral game board and time clock.

U.S. forces are likely to play a bigger role in the push to recapture Mosul from Islamic State militants than they did in supporting Iraq's retaking of Ramadi in December, senior defense officials said Monday.

A member of Navy SEAL Team 6 who covered an American civilian with his own body to protect him during a deadly firefight deep in the remote eastern Afghanistan mountains was presented the Medal of Honor on Monday.

Out of the 13 states holding primaries or caucuses, there are five where voters will face new rules: Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. The laws range from asking voters to present photo IDs at the polls to requiring proof of citizenship when registering to vote.

With Sunday's Oscar show, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will close one of the most contentious awards seasons in its history and open an era of historic change, as the 89-year-old institution launches an ambitious drive to diversify its membership.

The bunker where President John F. Kennedy would have been whisked if World War III erupted while he vacationed in Florida may face a bigger threat than Soviet missiles ever posed: a battle between its operators and the Port of Palm Beach.

Rubio is nothing if not agile. He’s been alternately admired and criticized as an ambitious political natural since his first run for the Florida legislature in 2000.

Like all bullies, Trump is a coward, and like all those who feel the need to boast about being strong and tough, he is neither.

President Barack Obama is set to award the nation's highest military honor to a Navy SEAL who helped rescue an American hostage in December 2012.

Five Ku Klux Klan members who were arrested following a vicious brawl in Anaheim were released because evidence shows they acted in self-defense, police said.