Новости за 23.12.2015

A trip to Disneyland that was supposed to be a dream vacation for a British Muslim family has instead become the latest flash-point in an international debate over Islam and security.

Pastor Su Tianfu slides into the back seat and tells the driver to hit it. He looks over his shoulder. "Is there anybody following us?" It is days before Christmas, but instead of working on his sermon, Su is giving his tail the slip.

A Kremlin official said Wednesday that Russia was exchanging information with the Taliban, the Islamist insurgency that the United States has been fighting in Afghanistan since 2001, as a bulwark against the spread of the Islamic State militant group in that country.

President Barack Obama's order to intensify air attacks in Syria has led to new internal debate over whether to loosen tight restrictions on strikes against Islamic State targets that risk civilian casualties, according to senior administration officials.

The body of a Russian rocket that burned up Tuesday night as it entered the earth's atmosphere set off a wave of excitement on social media and fueled speculation over what caused the flash of light to shoot across western skies.

Who needs Vladimir Putin to knock Ukraine off its post-revolutionary path? The nation's current rulers are managing by themselves.

Somalia is no longer a failed state but a recovering fragile country, the top U.N. official for war-torn Somalia has said.

Ethiopian government forces have killed more than 80 people in the past four weeks in protests in the country's Oromia region, an Ethiopian opposition party charged Wednesday.

The government of Somalia has banned Christmas and New Year's celebrations, calling them "contrary to Islamic culture" and citing such festivities as potential targets for terrorists.

If you’ve seen a preview — or even a poster — for “Daddy’s Home,” you can imagine how the movie goes.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi heads to Moscow after approving what’s set to be his nation’s biggest weapons deal with Russia since 2001, reaffirming a military partnership that newer suppliers like the U.S. will find difficult to dislodge.

The three missiles fired on a public market in the northern Syrian town of Ariha took the morning shoppers by surprise. In a few moments, the main street, packed with people buying and selling fruit and vegetables, turned into a scene of carnage with burning cars and the wounded screaming in terror.

A federal magistrate judge denied bail Tuesday to a Fremont man whom the government accuses of trying to join an al-Qaida-affiliated group in Syria, ruling that he’s too much of a flight risk.

Jose Crespo-Cagnant, a Mexican immigrant deported after illegally crossing the border, is now back in the United States and on his way to becoming a permanent resident after winning a long legal battle in Miami federal court, according to his immigration lawyer.

A congressman who once worked in a nuclear weapons plant told McClatchy he will seek a hearing and a congressional investigation into the federal compensation program for employees who became sick after working at such facilities around the country.

They were pioneers, leaders, practical jokers and mentors. The six airmen killed by a suicide bomber were remembered at an emotional ceremony Wednesday.

Putting the U.S. military in charge of drone strikes in Iraq and Syria has effectively reduced congressional scrutiny of those sensitive operations, leaving some activists, lawmakers and U.S. intelligence officials fearful of increased civilian casualties.

Five years after they angrily broke off diplomatic ties, Israel and Turkey are negotiating a return to normalized relations as the region around them explodes in violence.

The leader of New Jersey's National Guard has passed a fitness test, meeting a deadline to shape up that was imposed by the governor, who himself has faced questions about his weight.

Two Palestinian assailants were shot and killed on Wednesday after stabbing Jewish pedestrians outside Jerusalem's Old City, Israeli police said, the latest in an unrelenting wave of violence that has gripped the region.

John Bordne’s 53-year-old Cold War tale of a U.S. nuclear near-launch has emerged as another example of how close the world came to war as Washington and Moscow faced off over missile sites in Cuba. But surviving Air Force missileers, many of them interviewed for the first time, told Stars and Stripes the account is implausible.

By the end of 1962, the Air Force had constructed four secret nuclear missile sites on Okinawa – at Yomitan, White Beach, Onna Point and Kin Town. Each site housed eight Mace TM-76A nuclear missiles during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

A stronger and more active combat role in Afghanistan could convince potential Taliban defectors and splinter groups to support the central government. But at least as important is understanding who is fighting whom within the Taliban.

Rahatul Khan, his friends and family say, did not have a bad bone in his body. He was a tall 19-year-old with serious eyes, an aspiring lawyer who studied government at the University of Texas, and who was known for his compassion and intellectual curiosity. But online Khan was a different person.

A Chinese naval hospital ship is making a first-ever call at a South American port in a sign of the Asian economic giant's growing influence in the resource-rich region.