Новости за 16.09.2015

Dozens of left-wing students stormed past a police cordon and splattered red paint on the seal of the U.S. Embassy in Manila to protest the American military presence in the country.

Idaho’s top elected officials have approved payment of $70,000 for attorney fees to Madelynn Lee Taylor, the Navy veteran who went to court for the right to have her ashes interred with those of her wife at the Idaho State Veterans Cemetery.

The Army said Alaska State Troopers got a report of an injured hunter and requested assistance from the 11th Air Force's Alaska Rescue Coordination Center at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage.

When the 550 students at a private school in Virginia Beach recently returned to class, they walked into classrooms newly monitored by gunshot-detection technology.

Campaign materials for Gary McCollum, a cable television executive challenging Sen. Frank Wagner, R-Virginia Beach, had said he was "currently a Major in the Army Reserve." But Army records show he was discharged 14 years ago.

The Pentagon's top weapons tester said in a report in July that the spring exercise was so flawed that it "was not an operational test... in either a formal or informal sense of the term."

Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday made his third phone call to his Russian counterpart in the past 10 days, the State Department said, seeking to clarify the intent of Moscow's military buildup in Syria and warning that ongoing aid to President Bashar Assad will only prolong the Syrian conflict.

Russia likely will use its military force in Syria to launch airstrikes — and possibly ground operations — against the Islamic State in a bid to bolster President Bashar Assad and thwart U.S. efforts to exclude the Syrian leader from renewed peace efforts, U.S. officials and independent analysts say.

Meosha Morris knows the next 16 weeks will be tough as she heads deep into the Missouri Ozarks to undergo U.S. Army training at Fort Leonard Wood.

Russia says it opposes new sanctions sought by the United States against a South Sudan army chief and a former army general who is now a rebel commander.

Nigeria's army did not say where the women and children had been kidnapped from or their condition.

The Joint Base Lewis-McChord Green Beret in a rare fatal paratrooper training accident last week was a young officer who recently joined Army Special Forces, the Army said.

In 1940, Evelyn Laesch Farley was a 25-year-old beauty shop owner in Flint, Mich. But she wanted to do what few women were known to do at that time: fly.

The lawyer for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the soldier held prisoner by the Taliban for five years, is asking the Army to publicly release a transcript of his interview with military officials.