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NATO appeared to make little progress Thursday in narrowing differences with Russia over U.S. plans to install missile defenses in eastern Europe, even after the U.S. offered to delay activating the bases until there is proof of a threat from Iran.
Differences over Kosovo and U.S. plans to install missile defenses in eastern Europe loomed large at talks Thursday between Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov and his NATO counterparts.
The top NATO commander in Afghanistan alleged Thursday that the Iranian military was involved in a shipment of sophisticated explosive devices intercepted by his troops in western Afghanistan last month.
NATO troops should take on a greater role fighting the flourishing opium business in Afghanistan, which is helping to fuel the Taliban's insurgency, the head of the United Nations drugs agency said Wednesday.
Simmering tension between the U.S. and Russia over European missile defense boiled over Thursday at a meeting of NATO diplomats after President Vladimir Putin threatened to freeze Russia's compliance with an arms control treaty.
NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said Saturday he thinks the back of the insurgency in Afghanistan will be "broken" and that the country will be on the road to a long-term peace by 2009.
NATO defense ministers were under pressure Thursday to find more troops for the alliance mission in Afghanistan ahead of an expected surge in fighting with the Taliban when the snow melts this spring.
NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said Thursday he was counting on Germany to operate in any volatile part of Afghanistan in case of need, not just in the more peaceful northern sector.
NATO extended its security mission Thursday to all of Afghanistan nearly five years after the West began its war to defeat the Taliban, taking command of 12,000 U.S. troops in the war-battered country's east.
"Iraq and President Bush's war on terrorism -- and Washington's inability to focus on more than one major foreign crisis at a time -- have overshadowed the geographic nexus of Islamist extremism.
UNITED NATIONS, November 6 -- In order to requisition Darfur peacekeeping infrastructure services, in a way that resulted in U.S.-based Lockheed Martin getting a $250 million no-bid contract, the UN earlier this year brought in six outside procurement officials from NATO, also on …
Now if we can just get him to stop trying to push Kyoto on us.
BRUSSELS, Belgium (November 7,2007) - The International Community's High Representative and EU Special Representative in Bosnia, Miroslav Lajcak will hold today a series of high-level meetings with the EU and NATO officials in Brussels.
Analyzes the lost interest of the British media for the disaster in Occupied Iraq. He discounts "conspiracy" and claims lack of public "appetite" for the "dismal truth". [Comment: 2 million Iraqi deaths, 4 million refugees].
Afghanistan is not Iraq. That's the good news. Decades of war are devastating, but not as crippling as decades of Saddam Hussein's totalitarian hell. The glint of initiative outweighs fear's residue in Afghan eyes.
Denmark scrambled two F-16 fighter jets to identify a Russian bomber detected on radar near the NATO member's airspace, the Danish air force said in a statement.
Foreign fighters are coming from Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Chechnya, various Arab countries and perhaps also Turkey and western China, Afghan and American officials say.
After six years, the liberation of Afghanistan has become a triumph without victory. The fighting is the greatest it has been since the beginning of the war and more civilians are dying.
All those who are threatened – from America to China, from Europe to Africa – all religions and none must stand together and face down our generation's challenge to our freedom and security.
"The disparity of effort among NATO members continues to be significant. The United States contributes 15,100 troops to the 41,000-member NATO-led international force, known as ISAF, and deploys another 13,000 in counterterrorism operations.
Canada's top soldier has joined a growing chorus of NATO political and military leaders calling on several European nations to take a bigger role in the war-torn southern provinces of Afghanistan.
The United States is urging its European allies to commit more troops and equipment to fight the Taliban in Afghanistan.
President Bush on Tuesday strongly defended plans to build missile defenses in Europe, arguing that Iran posed an urgent threat to some NATO allies. He also chided the Democratic-controlled Congress for cutting spending that he called "vital to the security of America."
The United States and other nations will not allow Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon, Vice President Dick Cheney said Sunday. Vice President Dick Cheney gave a speech Sunday saying that the U.S. will not tolerate a nuclear Iran.
"Senior NATO spokesperson James Appathurai was in the room when the footage [of a terrorist with an AK-47 donning a burka] was shown to headquarters staff in Brussels." " 'We need to be on YouTube.' "
The offer, made last week in Moscow by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary William Gates, was formally presented Wednesday to NATO ambassadors and top Russian security officials.
President Vladimir Putin has announced plans to build a new generation of nuclear weapons after accusing the United States of harbouring an "erotic" desire to invade Russia and steal its natural resources.
Finnish membership in NATO would be a direct military threat to Russia, warned the Russian Embassy's Senior Counsellor to Finland, Vladimir Kozin.
So what is an international alliance to do when a war it's committed to has become so unpopular in member states, it can't get their governments to pony up necessary equipment? The 21st Century answer: outsource it.
France has been a semi-detached member of Nato, rather as Britain is in the EU. It plays a full political role but withdrew its forces from the integrated multi-national command formations that were set up to respond to any attack.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 — The Marine Corps is pressing to remove its forces from Iraq and to send marines instead to Afghanistan, to take over the leading role in combat there, according to senior military and Pentagon officials.
"The vote comes at a tense time in the region. Turkey's government is seeking parliamentary approval for a military operation to chase separatist Kurdish rebels who operate from bases in northern Iraq.
At a time when other countries are pulling troops out, Georgia has more than doubled the level of its forces here, from 850 to 2,000 soldiers, and redeployed them from the Green Zone in the capital to a region along the Iranian border.
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