Two NATO service members were killed Saturday in a bombing in southern Afghanistan, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said Sunday.
NATO and Russia have agreed to restart their military relationship, nearly a year after it had been frozen over the war in Georgia, the top NATO official said on Saturday.
Taliban militants attacked NATO supply terminals Wednesday morning, torching at least 10 supply trucks in northern Pakistan, local officials said.
Canada will ask the Russian ambassador to explain why two Canadians who worked at the NATO Information Office in Moscow had their diplomatic accreditation revoked, Canada's foreign ministry said Wednesday.
Georgian authorities foiled an attempted army mutiny that they believe was designed to disrupt planned NATO exercises in the former Soviet republic, the country's interior ministry said Tuesday.
Pirates hijacked a British-owned bulk carrier Saturday in the Indian Ocean, but NATO forces stopped an attack on another vessel in the Gulf of Aden hours earlier, NATO maritime authorities said.
NATO intends to expel two Russian diplomats from its headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Thursday.
Pirates captured a Belgian ship and said they were taking it to the coast of Somalia after the vessel was reported missing early Saturday, NATO and pirate sources told CNN.
NATO forces patrolling the Gulf of Aden foiled a pirate attack on a Norwegian tanker this weekend, a NATO spokesman said.
More than 80 militants attacked a supply terminal in northwest Pakistan that serves U.S. and NATO-led troops in Afghanistan, police said.
Two NATO service members were killed Saturday in a bombing in southern Afghanistan, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said Sunday.
NATO and Russia have agreed to restart their military relationship, nearly a year after it had been frozen over the war in Georgia, the top NATO official said on Saturday.
Taliban militants attacked NATO supply terminals Wednesday morning, torching at least 10 supply trucks in northern Pakistan, local officials said.
Canada will ask the Russian ambassador to explain why two Canadians who worked at the NATO Information Office in Moscow had their diplomatic accreditation revoked, Canada's foreign ministry said Wednesday.
Georgian authorities foiled an attempted army mutiny that they believe was designed to disrupt planned NATO exercises in the former Soviet republic, the country's interior ministry said Tuesday.
Pirates hijacked a British-owned bulk carrier Saturday in the Indian Ocean, but NATO forces stopped an attack on another vessel in the Gulf of Aden hours earlier, NATO maritime authorities said.
NATO intends to expel two Russian diplomats from its headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Thursday.
Pirates captured a Belgian ship and said they were taking it to the coast of Somalia after the vessel was reported missing early Saturday, NATO and pirate sources told CNN.
NATO forces patrolling the Gulf of Aden foiled a pirate attack on a Norwegian tanker this weekend, a NATO spokesman said.
More than 80 militants attacked a supply terminal in northwest Pakistan that serves U.S. and NATO-led troops in Afghanistan, police said.
America's NATO allies in Afghanistan are committing 5,000 more troops to the fight against the Taliban, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Saturday.
NATO-led troops killed 12 insurgents in a firefight Friday in Afghanistan, and a civilian caught in the crossfire was apparently killed by militants, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said.
The Danish prime minister has told his party he is a candidate for NATO's top job, a spokeswoman for the party told Danish TV on Friday.
When President Obama meets the leaders of NATO countries in Strasbourg, France, on Thursday, the gathering will be large on pomp and circumstance to celebrate NATO's 60th anniversary and short on substance on the major challenge facing the alliance: how to stabilize Afghanistan.
President Nicolas Sarkozy of France will put his government on the line over his decision to bring the country back into NATO's integrated military command, more than 40 years after it walked out.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy Wednesday made one of the biggest foreign policy gestures of his tenure and announced that France is to return to NATO's high command.
The United States is calling for a conference on Afghanistan and the broader regional challenge to take place March 31, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced Thursday.
NATO representatives and lawmakers from alliance nations will meet in Iceland Thursday to discuss security challenges that are likely to arise as the Arctic Circle thaws.
A key transit link for NATO and U.S. military supplies into Afghanistan is expected to reopen in the next two days, a Pakistani military official told CNN Wednesday.
Suspected Taliban militants early Saturday staged another attack against cargo terminals in northwestern Pakistan in the country's restive tribal areas, destroying NATO supplies bound for neighboring Afghanistan, police said.
Troops with the NATO-led force in Afghanistan killed three bus passengers Friday after the vehicle veered toward their patrol, the force said in a statement.
Afghan and NATO troops killed a Taliban commander who was responsible for suicide bombings, kidnappings, and torture, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said Tuesday.
Turkish officials are investigating reports of a hijacking following distress signals from a Turkish-owned freighter in the Gulf of Aden, a Turkish Foreign Ministry official said Thursday.
The United States is taking another step toward getting Albania and Croatia -- both isolated behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War -- folded into the NATO alliance
Somali Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein Sunday welcomed the arrival of seven NATO warships off the coast of his country to help in the battle against pirates in the region.
Two separate battles that militants fought with Afghan and NATO troops in southern Afghanistan over the weekend left at least 100 insurgents dead, authorities said Sunday.
Georgia's president says he hopes a visit from NATO's chief will accelerate his nation's drive to join the Western alliance
NATO-led forces in Afghanistan say an airstrike has accidentally killed two civilians and wounded up to 10 others amid concern over mounting casualties.
A U.S. Navy warship carrying humanitarian aid anchored at the Georgian port of Batumi on Sunday
NATO disputes a report published in one of France's major daily newspapers that said French soldiers involved in deadly fighting in Afghanistan this week were struck by NATO airstrikes.
What do you do with an angry bear? Growl back at him, face him down or threaten to take away his honey? It is a debate the NATO countries are patently having trouble resolving.
Ten French soldiers were killed Tuesday in fighting near the Afghan capital of Kabul after 100 insurgents attacked a patrol, authorities said.
The Western military alliance's raison dÊtre was to contain Russia. So what happens when Moscow calls its bluff?
Five NATO-led soldiers were killed in eastern Afghanistan on Friday, military officials said.
Violence across the country Saturday killed 14, including a NATO soldier
NATO-led forces have abandoned an outpost in eastern Afghanistan where nine U.S. soldiers were killed and 15 more injured repelling a fierce assault by Taliban militants last week.
Five foreign troops were killed Saturday in Afghanistan, bringing the number of NATO and U.S.-led coalition troop deaths in June to 32 -- more than in Iraq.
The President indicates that France will rejoin NATO's military command, even if its nuclear forces would remain under strictly national control
France will soon rejoin NATO's military command more than 40 years after it left, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Tuesday.
Two soldiers with the NATO-led international force and a civilian interpreter were killed Tuesday when a bomb exploded while they were on patrol in eastern Afghanistan, officials said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin struck a conciliatory note in talks with NATO leaders Friday, claiming that a new Cold War was in "nobody's interests" despite terse disagreements over the future expansion of the alliance and U.S. moves to install missile defense bases in eastern Europe.
A "crisis summit" for NATO, many called it before the leaders met in Bucharest. So how was it on the night? Who were the winners and losers? The key figures were two last year presidents who won't be at the next meeting, Russia's Vladimir Putin and U.S. President George W. Bush.
The United States secured NATO's support Thursday to build a missile defense system in eastern Europe, despite fierce opposition from Russia, agencies have reported.
NATO decides not to put Georgia and Ukraine on track to join the alliance, but pledged that they will join one day
France has agreed to send a battalion of troops to eastern Afghanistan, a NATO spokesman has said.
NATO leaders are likely to approve an increase in troop deployments to Afghanistan, the head of the military alliance said Wednesday.
Russia isn't a member of NATO. It never will be. But the country which once used to dominate and run the rival Warsaw Pact is nevertheless having a crucial influence on the deliberations in Bucharest of the 26-nation alliance. Whether western powers like it or not, Russia is becoming NATO-Plus-One.
U.S. President George W. Bush has not wasted any time stirring the pot on his latest visit to Europe for the NATO Summit starting in Bucharest, Romania, Wednesday.
A soldier in the NATO-led force in Afghanistan died after an attack on his patrol, the force said Thursday. Another soldier was wounded.
The British government says its troops were responsible for an airstrike Tuesday that killed two women and two children in southern Afghanistan. At least 10 others were injured.
NATO's secretary-general said Monday that Macedonia's hope of joining the military alliance could be dashed if it fails to settle a 17-year-old name spat with Greece, a long-time NATO member.
Canadian forces will remain in Afghanistan beyond February 2009 only if another NATO nation sends an additional 1,000 combat troops to Kandahar province -- where the troops are based, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Monday.
A suicide car bomber rammed a minibus filled with Afghan National Army soldiers south of Kabul Wednesday, killing 13 people, including six soldiers, said military spokesman Gen. Mohammed Zahir Azimi.
NATO is acknowledging YouTube as its new battleground in the six-year war on Taliban fighters in Afghanistan, as the military alliance posts formerly secret surveillance and attack video.
Six American forces serving under NATO's International Security Assistance Force were killed in an insurgent ambush while patrolling in eastern Afghanistan, a NATO spokesman told CNN on Saturday.
A NATO soldier was killed and two others were wounded Saturday in a roadside bomb explosion in Afghanistan's restive south, NATO's International Security Assistance Force has said.
NATO has lost the war in Afghanistan and success there is now unlikely, a former U.N. envoy warned Thursday, as Britain's prime minister met his Afghan counterpart and the U.S. defense secretary pressed for continued military commitment.
A Canadian soldier was killed and four others were wounded on Monday in southern Afghanistan, Canadian Forces said in a statement Tuesday.
A suicide car bomb attack on a military convoy killed a French soldier serving under NATO's International Security Forces during a routine patrol in Kabul early Friday, the French Defense Ministry told CNN.
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.
A NATO soldier was killed and two other soldiers were wounded while on patrol in southern Afghanistan Thursday, a statement from NATO's International Security Assistance Force said. An interpreter with the group was also killed.
Almost a dozen insurgents were killed in fighting in southern Afghanistan on Friday after militants attacked a force led by Afghan police, the U.S.-led coalition said.
Four soldiers -- three of them part of the U.S.-led coalition, one of them NATO -- were killed Sunday in separate combat incidents in eastern Afghanistan, according to coalition and NATO statements.
Six NATO forces in Afghanistan died Monday in various attacks, including a roadside bombing in the eastern part of the country that claimed four lives, according to NATO's International Security Assistance Force.
Taliban militants stormed police posts in southern Afghanistan, prompting heavy fighting and NATO air strikes that reportedly left 25 civilians and 20 militants dead, police said Friday.
Two NATO soldiers were killed in separate encounters with "enemy fighters" in southern Afghanistan Wednesday, a statement from NATO's International Security Assistance Forces said.
A U.S. CH-47 Chinook helicopter went down Wednesday night in southern Afghanistan, killing all seven aboard, U.S. and NATO officials said.
A U.S. soldier operating under NATO's command was killed Monday when gunfire erupted as they left a meeting on the Afghan-Pakistan border, U.S. military sources said.
Top Taliban leader Mullah Dadullah Lang has been killed in a military operation in southern Afghanistan, NATO's International Security Assistance Forces said Sunday, confirming earlier reports by the Afghan government.
Hundreds of NATO troops descended on southern Afghanistan's Helmand province overnight as part of an offensive against Taliban fighters, U.S. and allied officials said Thursday.
NATO-led security forces have launched a major offensive against the Taliban and drug traffickers in southern Afghanistan, the military alliance's regional commander said in a statement on Tuesday.
The purported al Qaeda video showing fighters firing missiles at a U.S. base in Afghanistan is "video fiction," a NATO official said Saturday.
NATO nations need to increase the number of troops they send to Afghanistan, President Bush said in a speech Thursday.
A suicide attack outside a NATO military base in eastern Afghanistan has killed at least eight people and wounded five others, a statement from the military alliance said.
Afghan troops and NATO forces captured a "prominent" Taliban commander in an overnight raid in eastern Afghanistan, NATO said Wednesday.
Two NATO soldiers were killed and another was wounded during combat in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) is made up of 26 countries from Europe and North America.
A NATO soldier and at least 50 Taliban militants were killed when joint NATO and Afghan soldiers clashed with insurgents in southern Afghanistan's Uruzgan province, the alliance said Sunday.
When graphic artists were drawing NATO's symbol in 1953 -- a compass and a circle -- the world was operating under the cloud of a Cold War.
Afghan and coalition forces have killed "three armed terrorists" and detained another in a raid near an eastern Afghan town, the Combined Forces Command said.
Insurgents in southern Afghanistan on Saturday attacked NATO troops, killing two Canadian soldiers and wounding three others, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said.
Eight civilians and a NATO soldier were killed on Friday in a suicide car bomb attack on a NATO convoy in southern Afghanistan, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said.
A soldier from NATO's International Security Assistance Forces (ISAF) was killed following a roadside bomb attack and small arms fire from militants in southern Afghanistan early Saturday, a NATO statement said.
NATO's military operation formally expanded into eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, extending the alliance's presence across the war-torn nation.
This year's upsurge in fighting is causing serious dislocation in southern Afghanistan, where NATO and government troops are battling insurgents, the U.N. refugee agency said.
A suicide bomber on a bicycle detonated near NATO troops in southern Afghanistan Monday morning as they handed out gifts to children, killing four Canadian soldiers and wounding dozens of others, including civilians, according to the Canadian military and NATO.
NATO members have failed to respond to a call from military commanders for reinforcements to try to quell the Taliban insurgency in southern Afghanistan, an alliance spokesman said.
More than 40 insurgents and a NATO soldier were killed in fighting during a major operation in southern Afghanistan, NATO's International Security Assistance Forces said.
A friendly fire incident in southern Afghanistan on Monday "resulted in one ISAF death and multiple casualties," NATO's International Security Assistance Force said.
Afghan and NATO forces killed more than 200 Taliban fighters and captured another 80 in a major operation in southern Afghanistan, NATO said Sunday.
Four Canadian soldiers were killed and 10 wounded near the southern Afghan city of Kandahar in three incidents Thursday, while 21 civilians were killed by a suicide bomb in the same area, NATO military officials said.
NATO has agreed to send as many as 1,000 military engineers, medics and other troops to help with earthquake relief efforts in Pakistan.
NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov have signed an agreement that will allow joint military exercises and eventually a joint military capability.
Leopards it seems, can change their spots.
U.S. President George W. Bush is expected to meet with NATO and European Union leaders in February in an effort to mend trans-Atlantic relations that have been strained by the war in Iraq, officials say.
Iraq's foreign minister has urged NATO to speed up promised training for his government's fledgling military and provide extra assistance.
President Bush is on his way back home after a weekend jaunt at the NATO summit in Istanbul, Turkey.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has called on NATO to rush extra troops to his country as soon as possible to boost security ahead of September elections.
NATO leaders at a summit in Istanbul agreed to offer training to the security forces of Iraq's new interim government on the day it was sworn in two days ahead of schedule.
Police used tear gas to stop hundreds of protesters from approaching the conference center where NATO leaders were meeting in Istanbul.
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