Новости за 03.08.2015

U.S.-led airstrikes targeting the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria have likely killed at least 459 civilians during the past year, a report by an independent monitoring group says.

In Iran, too, there is a debate about the agreement Iran forged in Vienna with the governments of the United States and five other world powers. And, in some respects, it's equally heated.

Humor has long been a part of the social fabric here. Afghans revel in telling jokes, poking fun at other ethnic groups or people from different provinces. But Ibrahim Abed transports his comedy to a new level. His antics — a meld of Robin Williams, Jim Carrey, and Mr. Bean — bring a heightened awareness to the challenges facing the country.

Russian officials warned Monday that the U.S. decision to back allied Syrian rebels with airstrikes threatens to unleash wider chaos and instability in Syria, now in its fifth year of civil war.

It was 10 years ago today that Sara Duvall dropped to her knees in the grass when one of those tall men in uniform recited the words the government had instructed him to so precisely say: “On behalf of the Commandant ...”

Soldiers of the famed 442nd Regimental Combat Team will be remembered aboard the USS Hornet Museum in August with a panel discussion on their role in rescuing the "Lost Battalion" during World War II.

For more than two years, Jerrad Alexander has been part of a local four-person crew working to conserve pieces of several stage-one Saturn V rocket engines that launched Apollo missions to the moon, recovered from deep in the ocean, where they rested more than 40 years.

Joan Aldrin, who spoke frankly about the stresses of life as an astronaut’s wife for two decades, died July 22 in Ventura, Calif., of natural causes, her family said. She was 84.

The Army wants to conduct a test next winter to determine whether soldiers can fire rockets at a Joint Base Lewis-McChord training area without overly disturbing South Sound residents.

It turns out the Civil War was set to music long before television documentaries or Hollywood movies had the same idea.

Trent Steelman traveled an unconventional, twisting path to the Ravens' practice field Saturday after the former Army standout quarterback was signed to a contract years after he first tried out for the AFC North franchise.

Like Lindbergh before him, Jack DuLaney was flying the Atlantic. But DuLaney’s trips were off the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Guadalcanal, and his plane was one of the hottest fighter-bombers of World War II.

Airstrikes to protect U.S.-trained fighters in Syria on Friday reflect a change in policy that expands the forces — including those from the Assad regime — that could be hit in the defense of the new Syrian Forces.

Congress' failure to finish up its annual defense bill before recess is giving the Obama administration more time to lobby lawmakers on Guantanamo and the response to the recent fatal shootings of military members in Chattanooga.

Moses Weisberg was walking his bicycle through the National Arboretum in Northeast Washington when he stopped at a mushroom-shaped tree. The first thing he noticed was the thickness of the trunk, estimated at almost a foot and a half in diameter. And then there was the abundance of spindly leaves, a healthy head of hair for a botanical relic 390 years old.

Hungarian soldiers started building a fence Monday on the border with Serbia, an effort meant to stop the rising flow of migrants trying to enter the European Union.

Government air raids in a northwestern town in Syria and a subsequent crash by a Syrian warplane that slammed into a residential area there killed at least 27 people on Monday, activists said.

In an abrupt reversal, Turkey and the Kurdish rebels appear to be hurtling toward the return of an all-out conflict that plagued the nation for decades, before a fragile peace process was launched in 2012.

Hundreds of pro-government troops and dozens of tanks and armored personnel carriers pushed north toward the al-Anad military base in Yemen on Monday, as Saudi-led coalition airstrikes cleared the path for their advance, military officials said.

U.S.-led airstrikes targeting the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria have likely killed at least 459 civilians over the past year, a report by an independent monitoring group said Monday. The coalition had no immediate comment.

The confirmed death of Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar has weakened the movement, giving Kabul an opportunity to step up the battle against the insurgency, an Afghan governor and one of the country's most powerful former warlords said Monday.

As it tries to get the most out of each of its $2.6 billion attack submarines, the U.S. Navy is finding a lot depends on the right paint job.

French and Malaysian investigators have met with a judge in Paris after the arrival of a wing fragment that many hope will solve the mystery of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

Gulf Arab states on Monday welcomed the nuclear deal negotiated between Iran and world powers but said they would like further assurances that the U.S. would help them counter increasing Iranian assertiveness in the region.

John Thuesen is on death row for killing his girlfriend and her brother. In July, A Texas judge agreed with Thuesen's appellate lawyers that jurors weren't adequately informed about the Marine veteran's PTSD after his return from combat. With more information about PTSD, jurors who sentenced him to death may have decided differently.