Новости за 26.07.2015

Cannon Air Force Base officials say an accusation that supervisors are using their ranks to promote religion is untrue.

Wounded, injured and ill airmen sat tall in the saddle last week as they rode through an Air Force Academy program designed to give them a key healing ingredient.

Iraqi government forces recaptured Anbar University from the Islamic State militant group Sunday after hours of fierce clashes, provincial officials said, as part of its push to reclaim territory across the embattled province.

Declaring Kenya at a "crossroads" between promise and peril, President Barack Obama on Sunday pressed the nation of his father's birth to root out corruption, treat women and minorities as equal citizens, and take responsibility for its future.

The Tobyhanna Army Depot is in the middle of one of the largest and most far-reaching renovation projects in its history — one that entails gutting one of its massive buildings and prepping the facility to serve a military more dependent on computer chips and software than vacuum tubes and hardware.

Hundreds of soldiers who’ve come home from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan now are battling the very companies that helped operate their base camps, claiming constant exposure to toxins from open-air burn pits has wrecked their health.

Most liberals don’t want to think of themselves as hostile to religious liberty. So they’re telling themselves a story in which conservatives are abusing the religious-liberty tradition to make new and dangerous demands.

It’s not only the name-calling and insults hurled at Obama that grab the gut. Behavior sends signals, too.

With journalism increasingly controlled by corporate entities that want to avoid offending advertisers and their readers’ sensibilities, we need Gawker most desperately.

A British newspaper said it has uncovered a major royal security breach by using an inexpensive app to track Prince William's air rescue ambulance while it is in the air.

Police say gunmen have killed a local employee of the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, though a motive for the attack is still unclear.

In his first public address in a year, embattled Syrian President Bashar Assad vowed Sunday to win his country's long-running civil war while acknowledging his troops had lost territory because of a shortage of manpower.

Ohio Gov. John Kasich is one of the most qualified people running for president, but he has almost no chance of being elected.

When you go to a movie theater, you sit for two hours in the dark with dozens, even hundreds, of people you don’t know. Unlike on a plane or even in a live theater or concert performance, there often aren’t paid staff in the theater with you, watching for disruptions or quietly managing other people’s behavior.

Through a program that encourages civilians to maintain the graves of fallen soldiers, she "adopted" Pvt. Donald Ward's grave.

The wreck of the ironclad gunboat, CSS Georgia -- built in Savannah in 1862 for the Confederacy and scuttled by its own sailors two years later to keep it out of enemy hands -- attracts droves.

A Shiite-led opposition movement in Bahrain continues to press for reform in the country, which hosts the U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet.

As a result of this weekend’s talks, the Massachusetts National Guard and the Kenyan government will sign a partnership agreement, a senior administration official said, and the administration has pledged to work with Congress to provide additional counterterrorism aid to Kenya.

A small plane crashed into a quiet neighborhood in Tokyo on Sunday, killing the pilot, a passenger and a woman on the ground, while three people were pulled alive from the wreckage, officials said.

Alexander Bonnyman was one of four who fought in the Battle of Tarawa to receive a Medal of Honor. He was the last of that foursome to be located.

Government forces have been carrying out an intensified hunt for Islamic militants in several northern Sinai towns.

A car bomb struck a military vehicle in southeast Turkey, killing two soldiers and wounding four others in an attack blamed on Kurdish rebels, authorities said Sunday, a day after Turkey launched airstrikes against Kurdish insurgents in northern Iraq.

The Taliban took control of a large police base in a remote part of northeastern Afghanistan after some 100 police and border guards surrendered and joined the insurgents following three days of fighting, security officials said Sunday.

Iran's supreme leader tweeted a graphic Saturday that appears to depict President Obama holding a gun to his head as Britain relaxed its travel advice to the nation, citing decreased hostility under the Iranian government.

President Barack Obama’s plan to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, would bring as many as 64 of the 116 current detainees to the U.S. for federal prosecution or continued military detention.