Новости за 30.09.2015

An annual defense policy bill unveiled by Congress this week would give commanders more leeway to allow troops to carry personal firearms for protection on military bases following deadly shootings in Tennessee and elsewhere.

Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Wednesday that the Russian airstrikes in Syria appear to have targeted areas that do not include Islamic State fighters, a development which Secretary of State John Kerry said would cause "grave concern" for the United States.

A U.S official at the Pentagon on Wednesday criticized Russian leaders for giving an one hour’s notice before launching airstrikes in Syria.

Times and dates for theaters in Belgium, England, Germany, Greece, Italy, Portugal, The Netherlands and Spain and Turkey.

An Ohio man said he had no idea an 18th-century painting hanging in his home for over 20 years had been looted from a Polish museum by the Nazis during World War II.

Clinton County Sheriff David Favro remembers patrolling the bars downtown as a city cop during the years when Plattsburgh Air Force Base was open.

France's World War II archives have helped produce an unusual art book: a catalog of more than 1,000 paintings, tapestries and sculptures amassed by senior Nazi official Hermann Goering - many of them stolen from Jews deported to death camps.

The head of the U.S. military's Africa Command, on a visit to Uganda, on Wednesday awarded the U.S. Legion of Merit to six Ugandan military officers, including the country's top military commander, according to the U.S. Embassy in Uganda.

Marine veteran Sgt. Robert Lopez, a 27-year-old University of Arkansas at Fort Smith student received the Bronze Star with Valor for actions he took in combat operations in Afghanistan in 2010.

Times and dates for theaters in Japan, Okinawa and South Korea

A moral injury, a wound of the soul, most often occurs in military personnel who fight in a war zone, the Rev. Peter E. Bauer of San Antonio, Texas, told participants at the Bringing Worlds Together conference Saturday.

Russian military jets carried out airstrikes in Syria for the first time on Wednesday, targeting what Moscow said were Islamic State positions. U.S. officials and others cast doubt on that claim, saying the Russians appeared to be attacking opposition groups fighting Syrian government forces.

Police say they have encountered several recent cases of “cash-trapping,” whereby thieves place a metal cover over the cash dispenser slot that looks deceptively real.

A temporary funding measure aiming to keep the government open past a midnight deadline sailed through the Senate on Wednesday and was expected to make its way shortly through a divided House and on to President Barack Obama.

The grandson of a U.S. serviceman who flew on both planes that dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 has devoted himself to a project almost unimaginable 70 years ago: spreading the stories of horror experienced by the hibakusha, or surviving victims.

One current and three former soldiers were sentenced Tuesday in federal court in connection to a fuel theft scheme while deployed with the Army to Afghanistan in 2011 that cost the U.S. more than $10 million.

American special operations troops joined the battle around Kunduz on Wednesday, exchanging fire with Taliban fighters near the airport where Afghan forces withdrew after ceding control of the city two days before, the U.S.-led coalition announced.

An estimated 359 lives were saved in Afghanistan after the U.S. military sought to treat critically-injured troops within the so-called “golden hour,” a study released Wednesday concluded.

In a potential major shift in policy, U.S. military commanders want to keep at least a few thousand American troops in Afghanistan beyond 2016, citing a fragile security situation highlighted by the Taliban's capture of the northern city of Kunduz this week as well as recent militant inroads in the south.

The U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet says a ship carrying illicit arms in the Persian Gulf was intercepted last week by a member of a U.S.-led maritime security coalition and was not registered with any country.

The Department of Homeland Security has awarded a massive cybersecurity contract, worth up to $1 billion, to Raytheon, which it hopes will shore up the federal government's defenses against the increasing onslaught of attacks.

The end of the Navy's frigates marks a new era of naval warfare where ships are less likely to go to battle in the open sea.

The nonprofit group that owns and is restoring the Boeing B-29 Superfortress “Doc” will launch a crowdfunding campaign Wednesday morning to get the bomber through its first flight.

As part of the counteroffensive on Kunduz, Afghan forces were backed by at least two U.S. airstrikes, including one intended to consolidate their positions around the city's airport.