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A Pakistani driver steers his trailer carrying NATO forces' trucks bound for Karachi, following their arrival from Afghanistan, in Quetta on May 21, 2013. The US military has started to withdraw equipment from Afghanistan through Pakistan ahead of next year's deadline for combat troops to leave the war against the Taliban. Pakistan is a key transit route for the NATO mission in landlocked Afghanistan, from where it is driven to the border from the Arabian Sea port of Karachi.
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Viewed from across the Atlantic, this is precisely the kind of forward-looking, strategic thinking that Washington should seek to replicate across NATO—and at scale
I believe this is a smart use of technology to further advance the training platform that ECS and Caspian Learning are developing for NATO ACT.
Since then, what kind of situation is Ukraine facing? The integration process with the European Union is frozen. For two years this country has not seen any progress with regard to the European Union or NATO. It has problems in its bilateral relations with every leading European country and the United States.More quotes »
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LI home to a dozen U.S. Army generals
Tovo, Smithtown East '79, had just met with Army helicopter instructors at an installation near Kabul . Tovo is commanding a joint NATO force responsible for training Afghan soldiers so that U.S. troops can withdraw from Afghanistan after more than a decade Read more »
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NATO: 5 Americans killed in Afghanistan
Five U.S. service members were killed on Saturday by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan, the latest deadly attack against international troops since the Taliban announced the start of their spring offensive this week.The coalition did not disclose the Read more »
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NATO: 5 troops killed in southern Afghanistan
by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan -- the first foreign troops killed this month around the country.In a statement, NATO said the five were killed on Saturday. It provided no other details, or the nationalities of those killed.Such information is usually Read more »
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US has a range of military options in Syria
as 300 mobile surface to air missile systems and defense systems, and more than 600 static missile launchers and sites.Some senators have also pressed for the U.S. to set up a narrow, so-called safe zone inside Syria, along its border with Turkey where citizens Read more »
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Joint chiefs chairman in Afghanistan for talks
an overnight flight, said that assessment will inform U.S. decisions about how many American troops should remain after the U.S. and NATO combat role ends in December 2014.The U.S. is expected to keep between 9,000 and 10,000 in a residual force, but no final Read more »
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NATO: F-16 crashes in Afghanistan, killing pilot
-- NATO says an American F-16 fighter jet has crashed in eastern Afghanistan, killing the U.S. pilot.NATO said in a statement Thursday that the cause of Wednesday's crash is still being investigated, but initial reporting indicates that there was "no insurgent Read more »
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German police return smuggled artifacts to Kosovo
experts years to authenticate them and confirm they belong to Kosovo.Serbia relocated some 1,200 artifacts from Kosovo's main museum to Belgrade during NATO 's 78-day bombing that eventually ended the Kosovo war in 1999. Their ownership is hotly debated. Read more »
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Panetta, NATO partner, differ on troop numbers
which left four Americans dead, including the ambassador. There are indications now that Hagel has support from enough senators to be confirmed next week.___Associated Press writers Don Melvin and Julie Pace contributed to this report.___Lolita C. Baldor can Read more »
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NATO chief urges countries to halt defense cuts
and focus instead on training, advising and assisting Afghan forces. But few firm decisions are expected at the meeting, which NATO officials have describes as mostly devoted to taking stock of developments. Pentagon officials said that U.S. Defense Secretary Read more »
