Новости за 13.06.2016

A bipartisan group of lawmakers is urging a government watchdog to tackle what it describes as “persistent, systemic” problems with the handling of defense and intelligence whistleblowers.

Orlando mourned the 49 people slaughtered in the attack on a gay nightclub, as the White House and the FBI portrayed the killer Monday as an apparent "homegrown extremist" who espoused support for a jumble of often-conflicting Islamic organizations.

U.S. Apache attack helicopters destroyed a bomb-laden Islamic State vehicle on Monday, the first time that the aircraft have been used in Iraq against the terrorist group, two defense officials confirmed.

Fiery and measured in turn, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton offered drastically different proposals Monday for stemming the threat of terrorism and gun violence that have Americans on edge following the deadly weekend attacks at a gay nightclub in Orlando.

The U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals Monday overturned a jury’s decision to award $1.8 million to former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura in a 2014 defamation case involving the late Navy SEAL Chris Kyle.

A suspected U.S. drone killed three alleged al-Qaida fighters in an airstrike in the central Shabwa province, Yemeni security officials said Monday.

The U.S. should limit its military mission in Afghanistan to supporting local forces, intensifying pressure on Pakistan to start peace talks with the Taliban, the country's former president said.

The U.S. should limit its military mission in Afghanistan to supporting local forces, intensifying pressure on Pakistan to start peace talks with the Taliban, the country's former president said.

Germany and Namibia are in the advanced stages of talks on officially recognizing as "genocide" a colonial-era crackdown more than a century ago in which more than 65,000 ethnic Hereros were killed, the German government said Monday. It hopes to conclude them by late next year.

An American national working at Incirlik Air Base in southern Turkey died Monday after falling from the roof of his apartment building as he attempted to enter using a 10th floor window, Turkey's state-run news agency reported.

In a small town in upstate New York, 27 headstones recently placed on graves that had long remained unmarked will be dedicated on Tuesday, Flag Day, with full military honors, to men who served their country in life but became anonymous in death.

President Barack Obama said the gunman who opened fire in a nightclub here on Sunday appeared to be motivated by extremist propaganda online, saying that authorities have not found any links connecting this attacker with other radical groups.

When the Warrior Games kick off Wednesday on the historic grounds of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. some 250 injured and ill servicemembers and veterans will begin their gold medal quests in eight adaptive sports.

He was a body builder and a security guard, a religious man who attended the local mosque and wanted to become a police officer. Early Sunday, 29-year-old Omar Mateen opened fire at a gay nightclub in Orlando. Police said 49 victims died and 53 were wounded. Mateen also was killed.

Army aviators from Fort Bliss’ heavy-attack reconnaissance squadron are basking in the glow of a successful deployment to the Middle East.

As they did eight years earlier in the Fort Hood shootings, federal investigators looking into Orlando, Fla., nightclub shooter Omar Mateen cleared a terrorism suspect who went on to commit mass murder.

"Mommy I love you," the first message said. It was 2:06 a.m. "In club they shooting."

The gunman in the attack that killed 49 people at an Orlando nightclub was inspired by extremist information over the internet, President Barack Obama said Monday, calling it an apparent example of "homegrown extremism" that U.S. officials have been worrying about for years.

The City of Orlando has started to release the names of the victims in the Orlando nightclub shooting. It will continue to update the list as families are contacted.

Holed up in a bathroom with at least four hostages, the Orlando gunman called 911 and calmly described his loyalty to the Islamic State and then made reference to bomb belts or explosives, officials said Monday as fresh details emerged about the massacre and why authorities waited hours before storming the nightclub.

G4S's approach to the vetting of its security personnel is under scrutiny after it emerged that Florida nightclub killer Omar Mateen had been employed by the world's biggest guarding company for almost a decade.

Several streets in downtown Kaiserslautern will be closed on Wednesday due to the annual Firmenlauf, or Company Run.

Republican candidates have a model to emulate as they struggle with growing concerns that Donald Trump could drag down the party in November: the late Muhammad Ali and his famous “rope-a-dope.”

Hatred and violence against LGBT people are being treated as exclusively a province of our enemies in the war on terrorism, while we ignore the fact that LGBT people face marginalization and fear for their safety right here at home.

People across the Asia-Pacific think American power is waning and that China will dominate the region over the next decade, according to a recent survey by the University of Sydney’s United States Studies Center.