Новости за 30.03.2016

Leading Mexican human rights groups announced Wednesday that a military court acquitted six of seven soldiers charged with breach of discipline in the 2014 killing of 22 suspects, including between 12 and 15 who were executed after they surrendered.

A new medal for service members fighting the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, the Inherent Resolve Campaign Medal, was announced by the Pentagon on Wednesday.

Still reeling from attacks in Brussels and Paris, world leaders are wrestling this week with the chilling prospect of the Islamic State group or other extremists unleashing a nuclear attack on a major Western city.

Yemeni pro-government forces have carried out a series of raids against al-Qaida in the southern port city of Aden, arresting dozens of suspects and causing the militants to flee from key areas, a top security official said Wednesday.

The head of a U.N.-brokered Libyan unity government arrived in the capital by sea Wednesday to set up a temporary seat of power in a naval base despite threats from competing factions, which prevented him from arriving by air.

Third-year medical students at Uniformed Services University recently learned how to deal with the unpredictable when they participated in the "Gunpowder Challenge," a two-day field exercise that teaches them how to lead and work within a small team.

Two of the American military’s most in-demand combatant commands changed hands Wednesday in separate ceremonies at MacDill Air Force Base, Fla., where U.S. Central and Special Operations Commands are headquartered.

Base tours offer an easy way to see Europe with other members of the military community. Here is a sampling of trips scheduled as of April 1, 2016.

For active-duty military families juggling frequent moves and long deployments that may take a parent away for more than a year at a time, home schooling appears to be growing in popularity as a means of providing stability in their children's education.

President Barack Obama signed an executive order Wednesday establishing the Inherent Resolve Campaign Medal for recent service in Iraq, Syria and nearby areas.

Gilbert Horn Sr., a Native American code talker who returned from World War II to spend decades serving the Fort Belknap Assiniboine Tribe as a judge and council member, has died of natural causes. He was 92.

For the first women who were accepted into the Naval Academy in 1976, the challenge was just beginning. There were annoyances, like raincoats long enough to trip over and rigid uniforms that didn't accommodate womanly hips, alumni say. There were also inequities, like being disallowed from climbing aboard submarines, and worse.

In the face of increasing North Korean ballistic missile threats, the Pentagon is studying beefing up Hawaii’s defenses by switching an “Aegis Ashore” missile system and launcher on Kauai from testing to operational mode and adding radars to track incoming missiles, a missile defense expert said.

Donald Trump vows to “knock the hell out of” the Islamic State and has talked about bringing back waterboarding. His chief rival for the Republican presidential nomination, Sen. Ted Cruz, promises to “carpet bomb” the Islamic State until the sand glows.

The Pentagon’s top leaders flew in to Tampa Wednesday see Army Gen. Raymond “Tony” Thomas III assume command of U.S. Special Operations Command during a ceremony at MacDill Air Force Base.

Attorneys and others seeking to provide services to veterans would need to notify these clients they can get services for free elsewhere, under a proposed bill from Rep. Tony Cornish. The bill, which passed through its first committee Tuesday, would require advertisements to carry a disclosure about services being offered through county veterans service officers and organizations like the VFW.

Times and dates for theaters in Japan, Okinawa and South Korea

A founder and former CEO of Wounded Warrior Project is calling for the resignation of board Chairman Anthony Odierno, saying Odierno must go so the Jacksonville-based non-profit can regain the trust of donors.

The Department of Veterans Affairs is wrongfully denying services to roughly 125,000 post-9/11 veterans with other than honorable discharges, according to a joint study released Wednesday by two veterans advocacy groups and Harvard Law School.

The Navy’s plan for a new fleet of ballistic missile submarines calls for Newport News Shipbuilding to do roughly one-fifth of the work and assume greater responsibility in the ongoing Virginia-class sub program.

The wife of an Air Force officer caught at Brussels Airport during the recent terrorist attacks there died as a result of her injuries, according to news reports.

An $86 million Drug Enforcement Administration plane purchased seven years ago to fly surveillance and counter-narcotics missions in Afghanistan remains grounded in Delaware and likely will never fly in Asia, according to a scathing audit released Wednesday by the Justice Department's inspector general.

The Pentagon's No. 2 civilian official said Wednesday that the Defense Department is concerned that adversary nations could empower advanced weapons systems to act on their own, noting that while the United States will not give them the authority to kill autonomously, other countries might.

State archaeologists think they have identified the remains of the shipwreck they located in the murky waters off Oak Island last month as the Civil War blockade runner Agnes E. Fry, and they say the ruins could provide new information about the lives of 19th-century seamen.

Marking a historic change in Japan’s pacifist postwar defense posture, two contentious security laws took effect Tuesday that will allow Tokyo to exercise its right to collective self-defense without breaking the Constitution.