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A NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) soldier keeps watch at the site of a suicide attack in Kabul on May 25, 2013. Explosions rocked central Kabul for several hours on May 24, after Taliban gunmen launched a major suicide and gun attack centred on a compound of the International Organization for Migration (IOM). One police officer was killed and five militants were shot dead as security forces hunted down the attackers, with prolonged bursts of gunfire and grenade blasts heard across the Afghan capital.
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NATO and ISAF have served as a scaffolding of sorts, which has enabled Afghans to rebuild their structures ... But as those structures near completion, the scaffolding is being carefully removed, leaving the finished product to stand freely.
These incidents are a chain reaction to the killings of Muslims in Iraq, Afghanistan and several African countries by US and NATO forces
As Azerbaijan has been participating in NATO’s Partnership for Peace program since 1995 we envision our future security model within the framework of the Nonaligned MovementMore 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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Long-term Western presence in Afghanistan is unacceptable - Patrushev
military presence of Western forces in Afghanistan should not be long, otherwise NATO will have to get a new mandate from the UN, Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev told Interfax in an interview. "We understand complexities that emerge on 6:26 AM from Voice of Russia Read more »
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Gunmen Kill NATO Driver in NW Pakistan
gunmen opened fire Friday on a convoy of NATO containers in northwestern Pakistan, killing a driver and wounding another person. Authorities say the attack took place in the Shagai area, about 20 kilometers southeast of Landi Kotal, the main town of the restive 5/24/13 from Humanitarian News Read more »
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Is 'cyber war' just a scare tactic?
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta talks to the media after a meeting of NATO defense ministers at the NATO headquarters in Brussels on Oct. 10, 2012. ATLANTA, Ga. — A growing legion of cyber war hawks contends that the world faces a mounting threat of hacker-driven 5/24/13 from The Oakland Press Read more »
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No respite: Driver killed in attack on NATO containers
officer. Photo: Express JAMRUD: A driver was killed and another injured when unidentified militants opened fire at a convoy carrying Nato containers in Jamrud tehsil, Khyber Agency on Friday morning. The convoy of containers was headed to Karachi from the 5/24/13 from The Express Tribune Pakistan Read more »
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Secretary General pays visit to Bucharest for talks with Romanian officials
Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen discussed the Allied-led mission in Afghanistan, Smart Defence and NATO's Open Door policy in talks with top Romanian government officials in Bucharest on Friday (24 May 2013). "Romania is a committed Ally and a strong 5/24/13 from GlobalSecurity.org Read more »
