13-09-23 Swiss voters want to keep the country's compulsory military service, exit polls from the latest national referendum on the topic have suggested. 瑞士近期的民意调查显示，选民希望保持该国的义务兵役制。 Voting trends indicated a large majority of Swiss...

13-09-11 US President Barack Obama has postponed a Congress vote on military action in Syria, vowing to pursue diplomacy to remove the regime's chemical weapons. 美国总统奥巴马推迟了对叙利亚采取军事行动的国会投票，誓要通过外交手段解决叙利亚的化学武器。 Damas...

13-09-03 More than two million Syrians are now refugees, with the total going up by a million in the past six months, the United Nations has said. 联合国报告称，现在超过两百万叙利亚人沦为难民，其中过去的六个月时间增长了一百万。 More than 700,000 have fled to...

13-09-02 Any US military action against Syria would amount to support for al-Qaeda and its affiliates, Damascus has said. 叙利亚政府称，美军对于叙利亚的任何军事行动都相当于对基地组织及其党羽的支持。 Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad also told the...

13-09-02 Brass ceiling is an imaginary barrier which stops women from progressing in their careers within the military and law enforcement. Brass ceiling（黄铜天花板）指存在于军队和执法部门中、阻止女性进一步升迁的一个无形障碍。 The term is a play on glass ce...

13-07-17 A new interim Egyptian government has been sworn in, with army chief Gen Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who led the ousting of Mohammed Morsi, becoming deputy PM as well as defence minister. 埃及新临时政府已宣誓成立，军队总司令阿卜杜勒法塔赫将军成为代理总理...

13-07-14 Hi everybody. I hope you all had a safe and happy Fourth of July, filled with parades, cookouts（野餐） , fireworks and family reunions. We celebrated at the White House with a few hundred members of the military and their families. And we took a mo...

13-07-05 Some blue whales off the coast of California change their behavior when exposed to the sort of underwater sounds used during U.S. military exercises. The whales may alter diving behavior or temporarily avoid important feeding areas, according to new...

13-07-04 The top judge of Egypt's Constitutional Court, Adli Mansour, is to be sworn in as interim leader, hours after the army ousted President Mohammed Morsi and put him under house arrest. 埃及军方将总统穆罕默德穆尔西赶下台并软禁数小时之后，宪法法庭最高法...

13-06-06 The central military leading organ of the Communist Party of China is the Central Military Commission. The Central Military Commission (CMC) is the highest military leading organ of the PRC. It directs the armed forces of the country. The CMC is com...