Новости за 05.11.2015

Russia has deployed anti-aircraft missiles in Syria to protect its warplanes carrying out airstrikes against militants, the head of the Russian air force disclosed Thursday.

Courts 2 and 3 at the Risner Tennis Complex once more proved to be title-run staging grounds for the Far East tournament singles champions.

Previews of some fall 2015 films, from Stars and Stripes staff

For their service in locations from a remote Alaskan village to the mountains of Afghanistan, five heroic medics, corpsmen and pararescuemen — one representing each service branch — were honored Wednesday night at at the aptly-named Angels of the Battlefield gala in Washington, D.C.

For the second time in as many years, Kubasaki met American School In Japan for the Far East Volleyball Division I Tournament championship. And for the second straight year, it ended with the same result.

“Spectre” marks the fourth feature film where Daniel Craig has slipped into a tuxedo, sipped a martini (shaken, not stirred) and saved the world as super spy James Bond. It’s been announced he will reprise the role at least one more time.

Jurors on Thursday convicted an anti-government activist on firearms charges after authorities said he sought out high-powered weaponry for a coming "second American revolution."

It’s been 53 years since the first James Bond film, “Dr. No,” arrived in theaters, and so many have followed in its wake that if you watched all of them back to back without a break, it would take two full days of your life. So if “Spectre,” the 24th and latest Bond extravaganza, comes off as exhausted and uninspired -- and it does -- it’s not without cause.

Authorities from the FBI and the Army Criminal Investigation Command arrested a 36-year-old Army medic after a grand jury indicted him Wednesday on charges he planned and assisted in his wife’s murder.

Americans are souring on President Barack Obama's approach to fighting the Islamic State, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll that also found deep pessimism about U.S. prospects for success in Afghanistan and uncertainty about Obama's plan to leave thousands of troops there when he leaves office.

Coalition officials in Kabul and Washington sent reassuring messages to Doctors Without Borders, even as gunfire from a U.S. aircraft rained down on its hospital in northern Afghanistan last month, the medical charity said in a preliminary report released on Thursday.

France will deploy an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf to assist the fight against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria.

Defense Secretary Ash Carter, standing aboard the aircraft carrier as it sailed through the waters of the disputed South China Sea, said Thursday that American sea power is the "Big Stick" needed to bring stability to a region unnerved by Chinese territorial claims.

NATO troops tested their collective power Thursday in a large demonstration of beach storming force, which could serve as precursor to a more robust presence around the Mediterranean as the alliance begin to focus on its southern flank.

U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown wants an investigation into reports the Army discharged more than 22,000 soldiers who had post-traumatic stress disorder or traumatic brain injury for alleged "misconduct" after they returned home from Iraq and Afghanistan.

U.S. Forces Korea and Seoul police began joint patrols of the popular Hongdae neighborhood over the Halloween weekend and will continue them through the end of the year, officials said Wednesday.

A new surveillance proposal in the United Kingdom is drawing criticism from privacy advocates and tech companies that say it gives the government far-reaching digital surveillance powers that will affect users outside the nation's borders.

Kelly Braun spent a lot of time in the weeks leading up to the Far East Division II Volleyball Tournament telling her International School of the Sacred Heart players that Matthew C. Perry and Robert D. Edgren were the teams they had to watch for.

Courtland Volker watched his friend and fellow Marine, Levi Minissale, deteriorate slowly during the time they served together in Afghanistan.

The coalition soldiers arrived on a dusty ridge line east of this city near dusk, as a cool breeze swept in from the hazy desert plain that stretched for miles below.

Southeast Asian defense ministers decided Wednesday to scrap the joint statement that traditionally ends their annual summit amid sharp divisions over China’s aggressive buildup in the South China Sea and concerns that the U.S. response could escalate into conflict.

On Nov. 27, 1945, an Army Air Transport Command C-47B aircraft was returning from Singapore. With World War II over, the three-man crew was making a routine supply run on Malaysia’s western coast.

On Nov. 27, 1945, an Army Air Transport Command C-47B aircraft was returning from Singapore. With World War II over, the three-man crew was making a routine supply run on Malaysia’s western coast.

Police have arrested a 28-year-old man and charged him with attempted murder in the Oct. 8 attack on a U.S. airman who was hailed as a national hero for his role in thwarting a terrorist attack this summer on a Paris-bound train.

A former State Department official was sentenced to 32 months in prison for surreptitiously filming hundreds of videos of women in intimate moments inside their District of Columbia homes.