Новости за 29.03.2016

Last a month, a video surfaced online of one of Russia's more advanced tanks facing off against a small team of Syrian rebels armed with a U.S.-made anti-tank missile in the suburbs of Aleppo. Now a photo has emerged of what happened after the Syrian rebels fired.

A recently declassified Pentagon office that gives the military services seed money to test new ways of employing existing weapons, platforms and sensors plans to issue a call to the defense industry for new ideas.

The hardline Taliban faction that claimed responsibility for an Easter suicide bomb attack in Lahore released a photo of the alleged suicide bomber Tuesday, as the Pakistan officials said they had arrested more than 200 people in a campaign to ferret out extremists in the southern part of the country.

The U.S. Navy has chosen General Dynamics Electric Boat to be the prime contractor for a new class of ballistic-missile submarines.

A U.S. Air Force F-16 jet crashed on takeoff from Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan late Tuesday, the Pentagon said.

The recapture of Palmyra in central Syria from Islamic State militants puts government forces at the heart of the fight against the jihadist group - and not just geographically speaking.

The United States must adjust its approach to preparing for wars that in the future will likely be fought across multiple regions and in a variety of domains, the nation’s top military officer said Tuesday.

Secretary of Defense Ash Carter and Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert McDonald took time out of their busy schedules Tuesday to honor veterans of the Vietnam War.

President Barack Obama will be meeting with Asian leaders in Washington this week as fears grow that long-smoldering tensions on the Korean Peninsula and in the South China Sea risk flaring into conflict.

The sight of an American flag could bring Marion Hodgson to tears. The Pledge of Allegiance a lump in her throat.

An Indonesian government vessel gave no warning before firing on two Taiwanese fishing boats earlier this month, Taiwan's Fisheries Agency said in a report that also denied claims that the boats were poaching in Indonesian waters.

Hawaii is gaining a two-star flag officer headquarters and 61 personnel with an Army-wide medical consolidation and strategic realignment that is bringing more oversight to the state because of the U.S. military emphasis on Asia and the Pacific known as the re-balance.

A second federal judge says he will allow a conservative legal group to seek more documents and depositions in a lawsuit over access to emails sent or received by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

The board of the Wounded Warrior Project, whose chairman has been running day-to-day operations at the veterans nonprofit since the removal of its top two officers last month, has appointed an interim chief operating officer.

Hazel Priest still remembers the day a man came to her family's farm in Indiana to notify her parents that her older brother, Pfc. Thomas E. Davis, was killed in action on Okinawa Island.

The chairman of the federal government board overseeing surveillance and civil liberties - the agency that questioned the legal validity of National Security Agency's warrantless spying - resigned Tuesday from his post two years before the end of his term.

The Pentagon is ordering nearly 700 military family members to leave Incirlik Air Base and two smaller military installations in Turkey because of concerns over the deteriorating security environment there.

Although genocide may be a morally meaningful concept, as a legal category it is a distraction that encourages survivors, courts and the rest of us to bicker over how to name our inhumanity.

I have been told that Kasich and Cruz won’t cut the rational deal for the simplest of reasons — ego.

The public has made an uneasy peace with the foibles of its politicians in the post-Clinton world. Character, as it’s now assessed, includes sexual conduct but that isn’t weighed so heavily that it blocks out everything else.

This case demonstrates the need for some form of secret detention and an intelligence-driven approach to interrogating captured high-value terrorists.

Five months into operations in the Persian Gulf, the Kearsarge Amphibious Ready Group is prepping for a move to the Mediterranean.

U.S. European Command extended a travel restriction to Brussels Tuesday, a week after terrorist attacks that killed 35 people and wounded scores more.

Archaeologists in Boston are digging at the boyhood home of slain black rights activist Malcolm X.

As an 18-year-old military police officer at Guantánamo Bay's prison, Erica Walsh was one of the few women tasked with guarding detainees. What she wants to do next is become Ms. Veteran America.