PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A government official says gunmen in northwest Pakistan attacked a convoy carrying NATO troop supplies to Afghanistan, killing one driver and wounding two other people. It was the first attack on a NATO convoy in Pakistan since Islamabad reopened the supply route earlier in July after a blockade of over seven months. Faraz Khan says Tuesday’s attack occurred in Jamrud town in the Khyber […]
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NATO Chief: Troops Show ‘Remarkable Restraint’ in Afghanistan
February 29, 2012 
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NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has praised coalition forces in Afghanistan for showing what he called remarkable “restraint and professionalism” in the face of anti-coalition violence following the burning of copies of the Quran on a U.S. military base. During a NATO seminar in Washington Tuesday, Rasmussen said that despite the wave of violent […]
Read moreAfghan soldier fatally shoots four NATO troops
January 20, 2012 Comments Off
REUTERS — An Afghan army soldier killed four foreign soldiers in eastern Afghanistan on Friday, said a spokesman for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). An Afghan intelligence security source said four French soldiers were killed and 17 others wounded by an Afghan soldier in the Taghab valley of eastern Kapisa province. The […]
Read morePakistan officials to meet on rules for US, NATO
January 14, 2012 Comments Off
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s top military and civilian leaders were set to meet Saturday in a closed-door session to discuss new rules on coordinating with the United States and NATO, officials said. Islamabad’s uneasy alliance with the U.S. was brought to the brink of collapse by November airstrikes which killed Pakistani soldiers. The meeting could also provide […]
Read moreObama meets NATO chief, discusses Afghan transition
November 8, 2011 Comments Off
WASHINGTON — US President Barack Obama met NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen, and the two men discussed how next year’s alliance summit in Chicago would shape a planned withdrawal from Afghanistan. Obama and Rasmussen spoke in the Oval Office in a meeting opened briefly to still photographers but closed to reporters, and the White House said the two men also reviewed NATO’s […]
Read moreObama to hold talks with top-level NATO official
November 7, 2011 Comments Off
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is starting the week with a routine White House day highlighted by talks withAnders Fogh Rasmussen (AHN’-derz fohg RAHS’-moo-sihn), the secretary-general of NATO. Rasmussen recently hailed the alliance for successful completion of its mission in Libya, where longtime strongman Moammar Gadhafiwas located and killed and the nation is making a transition to a […]
Read moreNATO chief to meet Obama in Washington
November 7, 2011 Comments Off
Washington — NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen will hold talks with US President Barack Obama in Washington on Monday, one week after the alliance ended its mission in Libya. Rasmussen will also meet US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Defence Secretary Leon Panetta, National Security Advisor Tom Donilon and members of the US Senate, his press office […]
Read moreNATO peacekeepers attacked in northern Kosovo
July 28, 2011 Comments Off
KOSOVO, July 28, 2011 (KATAKAMI.COM / RIA NOVOSTI) — Unknown gunmen attacked NATO peacekeepers in northern Kosovo for the second time in the past few hours, the Kosovo Force (KFOR) said in a statement, RIA NOVOSTI reported on Thursday. NATO peacekeepers have been deployed to Kosovo’s Serb-dominated north after clashes broke out in the […]
Read moreRussian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov hopes summit to confirm strategic partnership between Russia, NATO
July 4, 2011 Comments Off
RUSSIA, July 4, 2011 (KATAKAMI.COM / RIA NOVOSTI) — Moscow is counting on the reinforcement in the common focus of a true strategic partnership during the NATO-Russia Council meeting (NRC) in Sochi, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday. The meeting will take place later on Monday in the Black Sea resort city […]
Read morePhotostream : NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen meets Afghan President Hamid Karzai
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NATO Says Arming Libyan Rebels Not an Option
April 1, 2011 Comments Off
April 1, 2011 (KATAKAMI.COM) — As NATO assumed full control of military operations targeting Libya, the alliance’s chief said the body does not support the idea of arming the rebel forces, VOA reported. Hours after NATO took over the Libyan operations, the alliance’s Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen laid out the goals: to protect the […]
Read moreRussia urges NATO to fulfil Libya resolution without excess creativity
March 29, 2011 Comments Off
BRUSSELS, March 29 (KATAKAMI.COM ) – Russia has called on NATO to fulfil the UN Security Council’s resolution on Libya without excessive creativity. Russian Ambassador to NATO Dmitry Rogozin said on Tuesday after a meeting of the NATO-Russia Council (NRC) on the situation in Libya, ITAR TASS reported. “Russia has the right to have full […]
Read moreRussia-NATO Council to discuss conflict settlement in Libya
March 29, 2011 Comments Off
RUSSIA,March 29, 2011 (KATAKAMI.COM) — The Russia-NATO Council will discuss on Tuesday in Brussels the current state of affairs in Libya and ways to resolve the ongoing conflict, RIA NOVOSTI reported. Russia’s envoy to NATO Dmitry Rogozin said late last week that the Council will meet “to confirm the limits that the UN Security […]
Read moreRussia-NATO Council to discuss situation in Libya ; Russian Ambassador Dmitry Rogozin
March 29, 2011 Comments Off
Russian Ambassador to NATO Dmitry Rogozin BRUSSELS, March 29 (KATAKAMI.COM / Itar-Tass) – The situation in Libya will be in the focus of attention at a session of the Russia-NATO Council at the level of ambassadors on Tuesday, Russia’s Ambassador to NATO Dmitry Rogozin told Tass. According to Rogozin, the Russian side intends to emphasize […]
Read moreHamid Karzai to NATO: ‘Your Fight Is Not in Afghanistan’
March 13, 2011 Comments Off
AFGHANISTAN, March 13, 2011 (KATAKAMI.COM) — Afghan President Hamid Karzai says international troops should leave Afghanistan and take their fight against terrorism across the border into Pakistan. As reported by VOA News on Sunday, Mr. Karzai delivered his latest criticism of NATO efforts Saturday in Asadabad, capital of eastern Kunar province, where he was visiting […]
Read moreAfghan President Hamid Karzai seeks end to NATO operations
March 13, 2011 Comments Off
AFGHANISTAN, March 13, 2011 (KATAKAMI.COM) — Afghan President Hamid Karzai says US-led forces must stop operations in his country amid growing discontent between Kabul and Washington over civilian causalities, Iranian Television PRESS TV reported on Saturday. Karzai made the remarks in the city of Asadabad where a recent NATO attack left over 70 […]
Read moreNATO has no military plans in Libya – Russian envoy
March 3, 2011 Comments Off
March 3, 2011 (KATAKAMI.COM / RIA Novosti) — NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said that the alliance does not plan any military actions against riots-hit Libya, Russia’s envoy to NATO, Dmitry Rogozin, said on Wednesday. Commenting on Wednesday’s ambassadorial Russia-NATO Council meeting, held in Brussels, Rogozin said Rasmussen was not considering […]
Read moreRussia-NATO Council may discuss Libyan crisis on Wednesday
March 2, 2011 Comments Off
March 2, 2011 (KATAKAMI.COM / RIA NOVOSTI) — Russia and NATO could discuss the situation in Libya during a meeting of the Russia-NATO Council in Brussels on Wednesday, Russia’s envoy to NATO Dmitry Rogozin said, as reported by RIA Novosti. “I am not ruling out the possibility that the situation in Libya may […]
Read moreNATO vows to stay out of Libyan conflict
February 24, 2011 Comments Off
KIEV, Ukraine, Feb. 24 (KATAKAMI.COM / AP) – NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen says the Western military alliance will not intervene in the Libyan conflict. Fogh Rasmussen said Thursday the alliance has received no such requests and that in any case any intervention must be based on aUnited Nations mandate. He made the comments in Kiev where he was on […]
Read moreNATO: 740 trainers still needed for Afghan forces
February 13, 2011 Comments Off
KABUL, Afghanistan, Feb 13 (KATAKAMI.COM / AP) – More nations are pledging support, yet NATO still faces a shortage of 740 trainers needed to get Afghan soldiers and policemen ready to take the lead in securing their nation, the coalition’s top training official says. Needed most are 290 police trainers, including those to work […]
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