Новости за 18.08.2015

During a meeting with an undercover FBI agent, Glendon Scott Crawford spoke of a "wish list" of potential targets for his death ray — including Dearborn, Michigan and Queens, where high concentrations of Muslims live, the agent said.

The 12-year-old girl said she had been raped by a foreign soldier, one of many who had come to Central African Republic to calm sectarian violence. So the military commander brought her in front of a dozen of his soldiers and asked: Can you identify him?

A report released Tuesday faulted Special Operations Forces leadership at a small outpost near Kandahar, Afghanistan, for missing signs of potential violence in Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales before his March 2012 massacre that left 16 civilians dead.

Command of Marine forces in Europe and Africa will fall under a two-star general stationed in Germany beginning Wednesday, a milestone in the command’s 35-year history and a reflection of the Corps’ growing role in both theaters.

Many of the nation's largest for-profit college chains have seen enrollments plummet amid investigations into questionable job placement rates and deceptive marketing practices. One crucial source of revenue, however, has remained a constant: military veterans.

Army Golden Knights parachutists such as those who performed in Chicago on Saturday can jump out of a plane 2½ miles above the Earth, deploy a parachute 2,000 feet off the ground and land like ballerinas on a target that is 10 feet square, often touching down on a spot the size of a medium pizza. They do this thousands of times each year.

John Andrew Morrow has joined with others in what they call the Genocide Initiative — an effort to urge nations and human rights groups to recognize as genocide the killing by the Islamic State of Christians, Shiite Muslims, and members of various tribal and ethnic groups.

It was just before dawn when 66-year-old Vietnam veteran Larry Yepez locked eyes with a 200-pound black bear outside his home near California’s Yosemite National Park and knew it meant war. Within seconds, the animal was on him, crushing his hand in its teeth and ripping his face and abdomen with its claws.

A mysterious commando has been spotted across Asia, accompanying U.S. Marines from Weapons Company, 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment since they arrived in Okinawa on the Unit Deployment Program in February.

Officials say a Marine was found dead near his barracks at Camp Lejeune.

First, the Communist Party announces an event with great fanfare. Then Beijing authorities cancel flights, close schools, order cars off the roads and enact a host of other seemingly arbitrary restrictions that make daily life in the capital an exercise in inconvenience.

In the grainy security video, a man in a yellow shirt sits on a bench at the crowded Erawan Shrine, removes a backpack he is wearing, and leaves it behind when he walks away.

Republican presidential candidate John Kasich called for building as many as five aircraft carriers for the U.S. Navy, a move that would cost billions of dollars at a time when the Ohio governor says he also wants to balance the federal budget.

Royal watchers should get on alert now: Prince Harry is coming back to the USA.

A dedicated grass-roots network is the heart of Leros' mission to be a paragon of humanitarian relief. But it is becoming a victim of its own success: Migrant arrivals are surging as asylum-seekers catch wind of the islanders' generosity — and the welcome mat is starting to fray.

Libya's internationally recognized government, with strong backing from neighboring Egypt, on Tuesday urged fellow Arab countries to provide arms to help it defeat a local Islamic State affiliate and criticized the U.S.-led coalition for confining its efforts to Syria and Iraq.

A 93-year-old veteran who was part of the famed Tuskegee Airmen was the victim of crimes twice within a few minutes in St. Louis, being robbed and then having his car stolen.

Japan's army showed off its abilities Tuesday in an annual live-fire exercise at the foot of Mount Fuji, as the country's lawmakers debate legislation that would expand the military's role overseas.

Islamic State militants have called Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan a traitor for allowing the U.S. to use air bases for strikes against the group, and urged Muslims in Turkey to support the extremist group and fight the "crusaders, atheists and tyrants."

They’ve endured four months of the Army’s most physically grueling and mentally taxing training, and on Friday the first two female soldiers in history will be awarded the coveted Ranger Tab.

With seven Western states battling devastating wildfires, the National Interagency Fire Center is mobilizing active duty soldiers to aid thousands of firefighters in their suppression efforts.

Russian police said Tuesday they have busted an international ring involved in producing contraband cheese worth about 2 billion rubles ($30 million), arresting six people.

A computer breach at the U.S. tax collecting agency in which thieves stole tax information from thousands of taxpayers is much bigger than the agency originally disclosed.

An Afghan man described as “one of the most compliant detainees at Guantánamo” goes before a national security parole board Tuesday seeking repatriation.

All performances by a U.S. Army skydiving team have been suspended during an investigation into the accidental death of one of its members with local ties.