Новости за 15.04.2016

One solider from an Army Reserve unit in New York is in critical condition and three others remain hospitalized after their Humvee overturned on the New Jersey Turnpike.

Pressure on the Wounded Warrior Project had been mounting for months when Chief Executive Officer Steve Nardizzi and Chief Operations Officer Al Giordano were summoned before the board in early March. In a brief conversation as they describe it, the board told them they were out.

The female soldiers will become the first women to serve in the front-line combat branches that were officially opened to them April 1. Each will have to spend months passing additional job-specific training and meet a series of physical requirements before they are assigned to a unit to serve as platoon leaders.

Department of Veterans Affairs investigators conducted spot checks at 10 veterans benefits offices around the country and came to a disturbing conclusion: The VA has been systemically shredding documents related to veterans’ claims, some potentially affecting their benefits.

A U.S. judge has ordered the most sensational court records to remain sealed in the now-abandoned lawsuit over leaks in the investigation that led to the resignation of former CIA director David Petraeus. The files include transcripts of sworn interviews with senior Obama administration officials about the sex scandal and its fallout.

A two-day summit bringing together leaders of the Islamic world concluded in the Turkish city of Istanbul with a pledge to combat terrorism and overcome sectarian divide.

The National Park Service in June is replacing its floating dock tied to the USS Arizona Memorial — meaning thousands of visitors won’t be able to set foot on the famous shrine in Hawaii for two weeks during the busy summer season.

The U.N.'s special envoy to Syria met with a government delegation as part of peace talks in Geneva on Friday as humanitarian workers warned that fighting in Syria's north was triggering a new wave of civilian displacement.

Examples of the deteriorating state of U.S. military infrastructure are scattered throughout a Senate facility condition assessment report and a similar one from the House Appropriations Committee. Both documents are rife with references to crumbling and unsafe U.S. military structures, some of which are riddled with mold and rodents.

Egyptian security forces fired tear gas Friday at demonstrators protesting President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi's decision to hand over two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia. Chants of "leave, leave!" directed at el-Sissi marked the first significant wave of street protests since the former army chief became president in 2014.

Yemeni government troops newly-trained by a Saudi-led coalition routed al-Qaida militants on Friday from a city in the country's south and arrested dozens of militants, military officials said. The battles took place as Yemen's Shiite Houthi rebels organized a large rally denouncing breaches to Yemen's fragile U.N.-brokered truce.

When Islamic State fighters overran the ancient Syrian town of Palmyra almost a year ago, Maha Abderrazak was among tens of thousands of terrified civilians who fled west, many escaping with just the clothes on their backs and a few belongings they could carry by hand.

China's second-ranking general recently visited the country's man-made islands in the South China Sea, the Defense Ministry said Friday, underscoring China's defiance in the face of calls by the U.S. and others to cease construction work that they say is raising tensions in the region.

House Republicans departed Washington on Friday having missed a deadline to pass their long-stalled budget and without appearing to revive it despite the embarrassment for the party and its new House Speaker Paul Ryan.

HomeAway says its new fees are helping to boost its visibility via marketing. But is that a bill a traveler should have to pay?

A provision to extend the life of a popular federal program allowing rural veterans to get health care close to home advanced in Congress on Thursday.

Members of a New York Air National Guard unit are in the Arctic region to support an annual exercise by Canada's military forces.

The land, outside Cambridge, Md., is surrounded on three sides by water and fronts the Little Choptank River. Maps call the point jutting out into the river Poverty Point, but it will now be known as Patriot Point.

Airline critics believe that a new policy that raises the fares for passengers who book multi-stop trips is evidence of collusion between the nation's biggest carriers.

It's an age-old practice, but cab drivers taking longer routes for higher fares is among the top seven travel scams around the world, according to a new list released by SmarterTravel.com.

A Vietnam War veteran from the Hudson Valley has been awarded the Silver Star 48 years after rescuing three wounded paratroopers while under heavy fire.

The Senate Appropriations Committee has approved nearly $75 million in funding for Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.

Just about every Saturday morning, Tracy Smith takes his 5-year-old grandson to Waffle House for breakfast and then visits his son's grave in the Chattanooga National Cemetery.

An Afghan official says that more than 50 Taliban militants were killed after the Taliban launched a major offensive in the northern province of Kunduz.

The German Air Force is terminating its contract to train its pilots at Holloman Air Force Base, a potentially major economic blow to the Alamogordo, N.M. region.