Russia's air force chief has accused NATO fighters escorting Russian bombers on patrol flights over neutral waters of violating safety rules.
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.
President Bush will seek to persuade reluctant European allies to commit more troops for the fight in Afghanistan at his last North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit this week.
Russia's air force chief has accused NATO fighters escorting Russian bombers on patrol flights over neutral waters of violating safety rules.
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.
President Bush will seek to persuade reluctant European allies to commit more troops for the fight in Afghanistan at his last North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit this week.
A soldier in the NATO-led force in Afghanistan died after an attack on his patrol, the force said Thursday. Another soldier was wounded.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Wednesday that his government is willing to commit more troops to the war in Afghanistan, calling the fight there "crucial" to the NATO alliance.
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.
The United Nations is calling on NATO to do more to stop the Afghan opium trade after a new survey showed how the drug dominates Afghanistan's economy.
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.
NATO ships rescued two survivors and spotted three bodies off the coast of a small Red Sea island Monday morning, following a spectacular volcanic eruption the night before, a NATO commander said.
A Canadian soldier was killed and four others were wounded on Monday in southern Afghanistan, Canadian Forces said in a statement Tuesday.
Two Italian soldiers who were kidnapped in western Afghanistan over the weekend have been freed in an operation by NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), Italy's defense minister said.
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.
With even Hamid Karzai a critic, it's clear that mounting casualties are turning more of the country against the West
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.
NATO troops on Thursday secured the wreckage of a CH-47 Chinook helicopter apparently shot down by Taliban militants, an attack that killed everyone on board
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.
Fifteen suspected Taliban were killed in southern Afghanistan over the last two days, and a NATO service member was found dead on Friday, military officials in Afghanistan said on Saturday.
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.
The commander of NATO's International Security Assistance Forces on Saturday said troops will "kick the Taliban out and defeat them" after Taliban forces took control in the southern Afghan district of Musa Qala overnight, shouldering out a locally raised force of auxiliary police loyal to the Afghan government.
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.
NATO leaders meeting in the Latvian capital Riga have agreed to ease some restrictions governing rules of engagement in Afghanistan, but only in emergency situations.
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.
An Italian soldier serving with NATO's International Security Assistance Forces died late Wednesday when his armored vehicle overturned on a steep incline outside of Kabul, an ISAF statement 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.
NATO members were to discuss on Friday how to raise an additional 2,000 troops to bolster its force in Afghanistan amid increased insurgent violence, a spokesman said in Warsaw, where alliance defense chiefs were meeting.
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.
NATO leaders agreed Tuesday to help the United States train Iraqi forces, President Bush said at the latest stop on his three-nation tour of Europe.
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.
The European Union has formally taken over peacekeeping duties in Bosnia and Herzegovina, replacing NATO's Stabilization Force.
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.
U.S. officials praised NATO's decision Monday to help train Iraqi security forces, as requested by interim Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi.
A small bomb attached to an anti-NATO banner injured a policeman in Istanbul Tuesday, less than a week before a NATO summit meeting begins in the city.
NATO forces have come under fire when at least one rocket exploded outside their headquarters in downtown Kabul, Afghanistan.
President Bush said the Group of Eight leaders were "committed to the success of Iraq's government," but that no more troops from NATO countries would be sent to the country.
All of NATO's diplomacy skills will be needed to calm the fears of Russia over the military alliance's eastward expansion, analysts say.
Seven eastern European countries have been welcomed into NATO as the military alliance said it was turning its attention to new challenges and threats.
U.S. President George W. Bush has formally welcomed the addition of seven new members to the NATO alliance during a ceremony Monday.
The new NATO secretary-general said he believes the Atlantic alliance would be open to a request for a greater military commitment in Iraq after the country regains its sovereignty this summer.
NATO-led peacekeepers captured the former bodyguard to Radovan Karadzic, the ex-Bosnian Serb leader wanted by a U.N. war crimes tribunal for a 1995 massacre of 8,000 men and boys.
NATO's military commander in Afghanistan says operations and troop strength will be ramped up amid an upsurge of violence in the war-torn nation.
NATO-led peacekeepers have been continuing their intensive search for indicted war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic in a Bosnian Serb stronghold.
NATO forces launched a "large-scale operation" Saturday morning in Bosnia to hunt for a wanted war crimes suspect, according to a spokesman with the NATO Stabilization Force.
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