Новости за 15.03.2016

Afghanistan's national unity government faces five hurdles in 2016 and failure to overcome any one of them could spell disaster, the top U.N. envoy in the country warned Tuesday. Nicholas Haysom told the U.N. Security Council that "survival cannot mean inaction, or merely 'treading water.'"

The chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs said Tuesday that he hopes Congress will pass an overhaul of the troubled Veterans Choice health care program by Memorial Day.

Police found a man dead when they stormed a house in Brussels at the end of a major anti-terror operation Tuesday, several hours after they were shot at during a raid linked to last year's attacks in Paris, a prosecutor said.

Representatives from several local animal organizations are advocating for what they say is the only humane solution to the Naval Submarine Base's feral cat problem, a process called trap, neuter, and release, or TNR, which would involve neutering and vaccinating the cats before returning them to the base.

Concussion studies in recent years at the University at Buffalo upset conventional medical wisdom by casting doubt on long-held recommendations for prolonged rest after the first few days of injury.

European officials have insisted there’s no link between the sanctions imposed on Russia over Ukraine and the Kremlin’s intervention in Syria. Russia’s move to scale back military support for President Bashar Assad is about to test that resolve.

Russia's plan to withdraw forces from Syria is sending a strong message to President Bashar Assad, whose hard-line stance is diverging from Moscow's interest in declaring its intervention in the country a success while also accelerating peace efforts.

Veteran claims for Gulf War illness are being rejected at high rates by the Department of Veterans Affairs because the agency is intentionally trying to rule out the condition, the Veterans of Foreign Wars group told House lawmakers Tuesday.

Brad Carson – the architect of some of the Pentagon's controversial personnel policies, including the proposed acceptance of transgender troops – will leave his post in April, the Pentagon announced late Monday.

If the Marines were called today to respond to an unexpected crisis, they might not be ready, a top Marine general told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday.

In a major reversal, the Obama administration said Tuesday it will bar oil drilling in the Atlantic Ocean, a move cheered by environmentalists and consistent with the president's aggressive steps to combat climate change. The Pentagon said Atlantic offshore drilling could hurt military maneuvers and interfere with missile tests the Navy relies on to protect the East Coast.

Kendall Oliver's hair looked just like that of the man who was comfortably seated in the next chair over at the barbershop. Closely trimmed on the sides, a little longer on top – and ready for a trim. Yet the owner of the barbershop turned Oliver away – telling Oliver, an Army veteran, that he won't cut women's hair.

Saudi-led warplanes on Tuesday launched two airstrikes on a busy market in a northern Yemeni region controlled by Shiite Houthi rebels, killing and wounding dozens of people, witnesses said.

At a smoke-filled cafe in downtown Damascus, there was more hope than concern over Russia's decision to reduce its military presence in Syria. Art and law student Karam Abdel-Rahman saw it as a sign the five-year Syrian conflict may finally be ending after leaving at least 270,000 people dead.

Belgian police launched a manhunt in a Brussels neighborhood on Tuesday after at least one gunman opened fire on officers during an anti-terror raid linked to last year's Paris attacks, officials said. Three police officers were slightly injured during the operation.

A 27-year-old Canadian man said, "Allah told me to come here and kill people" at a double stabbing at a military recruitment center in Toronto, police said Tuesday.

North Korea might be threatening to use nuclear weapons to turn the U.S. and South Korea into a “sea of fire,” but a group of U.S. and Republic of Korea soldiers here are spending this week focusing on the rogue nation’s potential chemical weapons stockpile.

There are solutions that allow law enforcement to gather the evidence it needs without introducing encryption backdoors.

Iran has retrieved thousands of pages of information from devices used by U.S. Navy sailors who were briefly detained in January, the country's state television reported Tuesday.

The outcome of Sunday’s elections in three German states wasn’t good for Chancellor Angela Merkel, but it also provided an example of how a well-balanced representative political system stops its Donald Trumps.

A Belfast prison officer targeted by an Irish Republican Army booby-trap bomb died Tuesday from an apparent heart attack, a death that police and politicians said may be treated as the first murder of Northern Ireland's simmering conflict in more than three years.

As this campaign year unfolds, America’s 22 million veterans have reason to be frustrated, perhaps even angry. They deserve a serious and substantive discussion about how this country will deliver on promised health care and other federal benefits.

A U.S. Marine Corps jet was badly damaged after it caught fire last week on the flight deck of the USS Kearsarge in the Persian Gulf, a 5th Fleet spokesman said Tuesday.

The men in charge of approving coveted plots at Arlington National Cemetery have made hundreds of exceptions to the strict military rules about who gets buried there. But when it comes to a World War II pilot who happens to be a woman? Nope. No exception available.

NATO’s top official on Tuesday rejected the idea of restarting alliance combat operations in Afghanistan despite a series of impressive Taliban offensives, urging instead that the government to press ahead with key reforms for continued international support.