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Canada's new Liberal government said Tuesday it will resettle 10,000 Syrian refugees by the end of the year and another 15,000 by the end of February.

Police on Tuesday arrested two men suspected of shooting five Black Lives Matter demonstrators, while the family of a black man whose death inspired the protests called for an end to demonstrations that have gone on for days outside a Minneapolis police station.

Soldiers from the 3rd Special Forces Group received hands-on instruction at Duke University Medical Center as they prepare for a new mission in Africa.

An explosion struck a bus carrying members of Tunisia's presidential guard in the country's capital Tuesday, killing at least 12 people and wounding more than a dozen others in what the Interior Ministry called a "terrorist act."

Implementing a “no-fly zone” in Syria would require a large number of U.S. ground forces and would require the U.S. and coalition to define what they would be willing to do to protect the population residing there, military and civilian experts said.

Four crew members on an Army helicopter were killed when it crashed Monday evening at Fort Hood in central Texas, officials said.

A helicopter carrying Afghan forces crash landed in Afghanistan’s northern Faryab province Tuesday and several on board were taken captive by the Taliban, Afghan and U.S. officials said.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services figures show the number of foreigners serving in the U.S. military who become Americans is sharply declining. In the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, 7,709 became U.S. citizens, down from 9,239 the year before, a drop of about 17 percent.

A security official with Libya's Islamist government says a suicide car bombing struck a checkpoint in a town near the capital, Tripoli, killing five militia fighters.

Iraqi Security Forces have nearly neutralized the Islamic State’s ability to launch attacks with truck bombs, once a favorite technique of the militant group, a U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad said Tuesday.

Sitting down for lunch under a tent with a group of American infantrymen at this sprawling Polish base, Gen. Philip Breedlove apologized for being late; he had just learned that NATO ally Turkey had shot down a Russian SU-24 jet.

P-8A Poseidon jets are some of the Pentagon’s eyes and ears gathering evidence of China’s military expansion in the contested waters of the South China Sea, where China has built up small atolls in territory claimed by neighboring nations.

Federal officials recognized Las Cruces for its efforts to significantly reduce homelessness among military veterans.

After a delay of nearly two years, the Air Force on Monday released 250 pages of records on its use of cadet informants at the Air Force Academy. But most of the pages released are all but blank.

All this tortured diction is pointless. We’re at war with people who believe that Islam justifies mass murder. There’s no way to conduct that war without giving some people the impression that we’re at war with Islam, period.

One reason we think of Muslim warriors as foreign to the West rather than part of it is because much of Western identity has been built on an imaginary conflict between the Christian West and the Muslim East.

Historically, civil rights and gun control have been at odds. The blunt fact is that one side seeks to rein in law enforcement, while the other wishes to give it more power.

U.S. Army officials say four people have died in a helicopter crash at Fort Hood.

French authorities on Tuesday questioned a top suspect linked to attackers who terrorized Paris, while Belgium's capital remained locked down under threat of a possible similar attack.

Turkey shot down a Russian fighter plane Tuesday — a long-feared crisis in Syria's civil war and apparently the first time a NATO member has downed a Russian plane in a half-century. A NATO official says the alliance has opened an extraordinary meeting on the incident.

There’s a scene early in “Creed” inside Adrian’s, that famous South Philly eatery run by the mumbling restaurateur Rocky Balboa. A young man walks in and eyes the pictures on the wall -- photographs of the heavyweight champ’s legendary bouts, most notably his epic collisions with Apollo Creed.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will announce Tuesday his plan to resettle 25,000 Syrian refugees and he says all 10 of Canada's provincial premiers support bringing that many in.

Production was halted early in the process of making "The Good Dinosaur" because it had some dinosaur-sized problems. Peter Sohn was brought in as the new director and he started the process over two years ago.

Someone left a copy of Mary Shelley's novel out in the rain, threw the wet mess into a blender, hit puree and came up with "Victor Frankenstein," the 758th movie retelling of the seminal horror tale, this time with a dash of Marvel Comics and a revisionist perspective thrown in for flavor. Although the mad doctor with a God complex (played by James McAvoy) gets title billing, the star this time is his faithful assistant Igor (Daniel Radcliffe), a circus sideshow freak whose hump turns out to have been a really big zit (no... Читать дальше...

The violence in Syria in recent weeks is pressuring China to step off the sidelines and take a more active role in international efforts to stem the conflict.