Новости за 18.04.2017

The Department of Veterans Affairs initiated a review of its caregiver support program and halted medical centers from dropping families enrolled in the benefit, the VA announced Monday.

An Ohio man has pleaded guilty to charges brought after the FBI said he threatened U.S. military members online on behalf of the Islamic State.

To mark the continued commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the Vietnam War, Vietnam Veterans and their families have been invited to a special welcome home ceremony, which will include the pinning of a commemorative pin on Vietnam veterans.

On George Murillo’s day off from his job with the U.S. Postal Service, investigators said he had a lot planned: Pick up his girlfriend’s son from high school, take his girlfriend’s daughter to lunch, and oh yes, rob a bank.

Extremism concerns shook France's presidential campaign Tuesday as authorities announced arrests in what they said was a thwarted attack and candidates urged tougher counterterrorism efforts for a country already under a state of emergency.

While Defense Secretary Jim Mattis denounced North Korea's weapons test as he began a Mideast tour, Vice President Mike Pence offered support to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo amid a trip dominated by concerns about the rogue state's nuclear intentions.

A Navy officer has been charged with hazing and maltreatment for engaging in a pattern of verbal and emotional abuse and taking reprisal against a sailor who asked to stop being called "Charlie Brown," according to court records.

Congress should consider delaying an upcoming Navy request for as much as $9 billion to start work on 12 better-armed successor vessels to the troubled Littoral Combat Ship, according to congressional auditors.

Chris Roessner crossed the border into Iraq with the 4th Infantry Division in April 2003. What he experienced there helped shape the script of “Sand Castle,” a film that he wrote and debuts Friday on Netflix.

The California governor on Saturday pardoned Army veteran Hector Barajas-Varela and two other honorably discharged veterans who were deported from the United States after serving prison terms for criminal convictions.

Armed men attacked an army camp in northern Mali, killing at least four soldiers and wounding another, an army spokesman said Tuesday, while the United Nations peacekeeping mission said one of its vehicles hit a land mine in a separate incident, seriously wounding three.

Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly on Tuesday bluntly challenged members of Congress critical of the Trump administration's aggressive approach to immigration enforcement to either change the laws or "shut up."

A team of Virginia-based soldiers is taking up residence at a strategic Romanian post this spring where they will manage the flow of large-scale troop deployments as the Army here prepares to intensify its operations in southern Europe.

A U.S. Army veteran's three dogs who were accused of killing a farmer's goats and cat in Michigan have been pardoned from euthanization.

High levels of a banned pollutant have been detected in water running under Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, a year after the substance was found in streams and underground water wells adjacent to Kadena Air Base.

Iowa State University's military training program has expelled a promising cadet, accusing him of falsely claiming that he was sexually assaulted during an altercation that left him hospitalized.

Navy Installations Command said that effective immediately, ashore installations in Hawaii, on Guam and on the mainland would switch from the privately held RAPIDGate program to the new government-run biometrics program.

The man suspected of randomly killing a Cleveland retiree and posting video of the crime on Facebook shot himself to death Tuesday after police chased him down in his car in Pennsylvania, ending a multistate manhunt less than 48 hours after it began.

The Saudi-led military coalition fighting in Yemen said one of its helicopters crashed in eastern Yemen on Tuesday, killing 12 Saudi officers in one of the deadliest incidents for the kingdom's troops since the war began more than two years ago.

Serbia is seeking a Russian air defense system in addition to fighter jets and battle tanks, Serbian officials say, in what could fuel tensions in the Balkans.

The Iraqis guarding Baghdad's many checkpoints, on the lookout for car bombs and convoys, don't know what to make of Ali al-Moussawi when he pulls up in a truck displaying shelves of glossy books.

An overnight airstrike likely carried out by the U.S.-led coalition struck an eastern Syrian town held by the Islamic State group, killing at least 10 people and wounding dozens, opposition activists said. Another airstrike, this one during the day, hit a rebel-held village in the northwest on Tuesday, killing a woman and nine children.

A U.S. Navy officer charged with hazing and maltreatment of sailors is facing a general court martial.

North Korea’s latest attempt over the weekend to launch a missile aimed to elicit a response from the United States, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Tuesday. He vowed to continue to work with China to reduce tensions on the Korean Peninsula.

The Marine Corps is axing some online courses and adding more face-to-face training, according to an early copy of an internal message obtained by Stars and Stripes.