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Afghan govt would fall if NATO withdraws: UK ministerLONDON (Reuters) - The Afghan government would quickly be overthrown if NATO troops pulled out of the country now, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said Friday. "If international forces leave, you can choose a time -- five minutes,... In this article: David Miliband, NATO, Britain, British troops, Afghanistan, Taliban, Hamid Karzai, and Gordon Brown |
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AP Online | 2 days ago
NATO delays talks on new forces for Afghanistan
...holds regular meetings to raise troops and other resources for all its operations. The next one is scheduled for Monday. But NATO spokesman James Appathurai says that meeting will now be split into two parts. On Monday, allied nations...
In this article: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Kosovo, Brussels, and Somalia
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washingtonpost.com | 2 days ago
Pierre Harmel, creator of key 1967 NATO policy, dies at 98
Pierre Harmel, 98, a former Belgian foreign minister who wrote a 1967 strategy that led the NATO allies to seek detente with the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact, died Nov. 15, it was reported from Brussels. The cause of death was not reported. His...
In this article: Pierre Harmel, Brussels, Warsaw Pact, Europe, Helsinki, Berlin, Soviet Union, and Germany
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Slovakia to add 250 NATO troops to Afghan mission
LONDON (AP) - Slovakia pledged about 250 extra soldiers to the NATO-led force in Afghanistan Tuesday, the first of what British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said would be a series of international reinforcements. The central European...
In this article: Gordon Brown, Afghanistan, Robert Fico, Slovakia, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Barack Obama, London, Taliban insurgents, and European country
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NATO chief confident of big Afghan troop increase
...strategy or to narrow it to a counter-terrorism drive against al Qaeda. "In a few weeks, I expect we will decide, in NATO, on the approach, and troop levels needed, to take our mission forward," Rasmussen told a meeting in...
In this article: Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Afghanistan, United States, Stanley McChrystal, Al Qaeda, Barack Obama, Edinburgh, David Miliband, and Taliban
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Reuters | 3 days ago
NATO chief confident of big troop increase
By Adrian Croft NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Tuesday he was confident the alliance would substantially increase its forces battling Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan. U.S. President Barack Obama is weighing...
In this article: Anders Fogh Rasmussen, United States, Barack Obama, Robert Gates, Joe Biden, Al Qaeda, Afghanistan, Stanley McChrystal, and Taliban insurgents
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NATO says insurgents killed during search
KABUL -- NATO and Afghan forces killed several insurgents, including an armed woman, in a search operation in western Afghanistan on Saturday, the alliance said. The governor of Shindand district in Herat, where the operation took place,...
In this article: Afghanistan, U.S., Zabul, Taliban, Herat, and Kabul
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO; pronounced: /ˈneɪtoʊ/, )); Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique Nord (OTAN)), also called "the (North) Atlantic Alliance", is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949. The NATO headquarters are in Brussels, Belgium, and the organization constitutes a system of collective defence whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party.
For its first few years, NATO was not much more than a political association. However, the Korean War galvanized the member states, and an integrated military structure was built up under the direction of two U.S. supreme commanders. The first NATO Secretary General, Lord Ismay, famously stated the organization's goal was "to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down". Doubts over the strength of the relationship between the European states and the United States ebbed and flowed, along with doubts over the credibility of the NATO defense against a prospective Soviet invasion – doubts that led to the development of the independent French nuclear deterrent and the withdrawal of the French from NATO's military structure from 1966.
- Name:
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization
- Type:
- Military alliance
- Headquarters:
- Brussels, Belgium
- Founding Date:
- April 04, 1949
- Language:
- English
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