Новости за 13.10.2015

The Russian military intervention to prop up Syria's government has brought new scrutiny of the CIA's secret support to Syrian rebels fighting Bashar Assad. But how far is the U.S. willing to go to empower its proxies to take on Vladimir Putin's allies?

Air Force officials have elected 1,955 first lieutenants for promotion to captain during the calendar year 2015B Line of the Air Force, Chaplain, LAF Judge Advocate, Nurse Corps, Medical Service Corps and Biomedical Sciences Corps Quarterly Selection Process.

The same techniques guided ancient Polynesians in the open Pacific and led Sir Ernest Shackleton to remote Antarctica, then oriented astronauts when the Apollo 12 was disabled by lightning — the techniques of celestial navigation. A glimmer of the old lore has returned to the U.S. Naval Academy.

One of the longest-lived military airplanes in Hawaii — the P-3 Orion turboprop — is starting to fade away, with the Navy deciding its sub-hunting jet replacements could be more economically based in Washington state.

Iran's parliament voted Tuesday to support implementing a landmark nuclear deal struck with world powers despite hard-line attempts to derail the bill, suggesting the historic accord will be carried out.

Baltimore is set to launch a special docket Tuesday for veterans charged with crimes, aiming to help them avoid prison and instead get into treatment programs through the Department of Veterans Affairs.

The U.S. military says conditions are now right for the Iraqi army to make a decisive assault on Ramadi and reclaim the provincial capital from Islamic State fighters.

Japan said Tuesday that it may cut funding for UNESCO after the U.N. world heritage body included documents on a World War II-era massacre by Japanese troops on a Chinese city in its Memory of the World register, a move Tokyo criticized as biased.

More soldiers are needed to help the Army in Europe, where a new security environment is testing a force spread increasingly thin after years of cutbacks, a top Army officer said on Tuesday.

A team of Pentagon officials began scouting sites in Colorado on Tuesday as potential alternatives to hold prisoners from Guantanamo Bay as part of the long-stalled effort to close the controversial detention center on the U.S. base in Cuba.

The government, in all likelihood, is going to need more revenue to deal with the strain that the baby boomers’ retirement will put on the budget. If higher taxes on the rich don’t even hurt them enough to make much of a dent in inequality, then that sounds like a good place to start.

The 2016 presidential campaign is unfolding in Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy’s world, since his majority opinion in Citizens United gave corporations, unions and billionaires more leeway in their political spending habits.

The Philippines on Tuesday backed a reported U.S. plan to challenge China's territorial claims by deploying an American Navy ship close to a Chinese-built island in the South China Sea, saying it was important for the international community to safeguard freedom of navigation in the disputed waters.

Security officials say airstrikes from a Saudi-led coalition targeting Yemen's Shiite rebels have killed eight rebel fighters in a renewed attempt to cut their supply lines to the country's third largest city.

The American Civil Liberties Union on Tuesday sued two former Air Force psychologists who designed a CIA program that used harsh interrogation techniques to elicit intelligence from suspected terrorists, saying the pair endorsed and taught torture tactics under the guise of science.

YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — Smugglers used U.S. military mail to bring 3.7 pounds of marijuana into Japan through Yokota Air Base – home of U.S. Forces Japan in western Tokyo, according to U.S. and Japanese officials.

Iran's state TV says the country has successfully test-fired an advanced torpedo system.

The Afghan army’s limitations in urban fighting were on full display during the two-week effort to drive the Taliban from Kunduz — a city that the insurgents overran in a single day.

Seeking to block a new U.S. military runway in Okinawa’s remote north, Gov. Takeshi Onaga revoked a permit Tuesday for landfill work in Oura Bay at Henoko, the latest salvo in his battle with Tokyo over the U.S. military presence on the tiny island prefecture.

Remember Colin Powell’s quote about Iraq: “When you break it, you own it.”

The current situation in Syria should be a cautionary tale for the upcoming presidential election. Voters should do their due diligence in vetting the candidates’ foreign policy experience.

Backed by more than 60 airstrikes, Afghan and American troops launched a five-day operation last week against two alleged al-Qaida areas in southern Afghanistan, U.S. military officials announced on Tuesday.

Not worth it. This quixotic mission to dig up one of Missouri's entombed Minuteman II Cold War missile facilities is — two months into the hard labor — nothing but a muddied mess.

U.S. Sen. John McCain's vow to hold a Senate hearing if alleged Army deserter Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl is allowed to avoid prison could push the controversy into the 2016 presidential campaign, further feeding Republicans' attacks of President Barack Obama's foreign policy record, a GOP pundit predicted.