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Ahmed Rashid on a credible U.S. strategy in Afghanistan...excludes Pakistan. Both positions -- throwbacks to the 1990s, when neighboring states fueled opposing sides in Afghanistan's civil war -- are non-starters as far as helping the U.S.-NATO alliance bring peace to Afghanistan. To avoid a... In this article: United States, Afghanistan, Taliban, Pakistan, Pakistani army, India, Washington, and Kabul |
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CNN | 14 hours ago
U.S. won't join landmine ban
...also haven't signed Washington (CNN) -- The United States won't join its NATO allies and many other countries in formally banning landmines, State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said during his midday briefing Tuesday. "This administration...
In this article: United States, State Department, E mail, Human Rights Watch, and CNN
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AP Online | November 11, 2009
Pirate risk forges unlikely high seas alliances
...and many nonaligned countries such as Japan or South Korea also have sent ships to the region. Russia is also supporting the NATO patrols. Cmdr. James Kraska, a professor at America's Center for Naval Warfare Studies, says all except...
In this article: Indian Ocean, Russia, John, EU, United States, and China
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Guardian Unlimited | 2 days ago
Welcome to Albania
...them to last forever. Also, Russia will stand firmly by brother nation Serbia, and even the Chinese (sorry Albania with your love of Mao) because in the 1999 NATO war, NATO bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade. That said, I do support...
In this article: Albania, EU, Heroin, Kosovo, Mafia, Europe, Balkans, Tirana, and Macedonia
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FT.com - World | 5 days ago
Ukraine deal eases gas disruption fears
...2004 presidential elections. Relations with Russia soured under Mr Yushchenko, who pushed hard for Kiev to break free from Russia's orbit by seeking membership in the European Union and Nato alliance. Mr Medvedev last summer publicly...
In this article: Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin, Russia, Gazprom, Europe, Kiev, Natural gas, and Moscow
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Reuters | November 15, 2009
Kosovo's statehood faces first test at local polls
...run-offs in a month's time. Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in 2008, nine years after NATO bombing drove out Serb forces to stop the killing of ethnic Albanians in a two-year counter-insurgency war. More than 60 countries, mainly...
In this article: Kosovo, Serbia, Pristina, Belgrade, Democracy, Unemployment, Democratic League of Kosovo, and Democratic Party of Kosovo
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New Kerala | November 11, 2009
Russia, US should overcome 'stagnation' in bilateral relations
...security treaty legally binding for everyone. ''We will promote our proposal, including within the Russia-NATO Council meetings due to take place in the beginning of December,'' he said. He also said the talks on a new Russia-EU...
In this article: Sergei Lavrov, Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, EU, Moscow, Barack Obama, US, and Vesti
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washingtonpost.com | November 09, 2009
Digest
...fighting in the north this year. The operation took place last week in the Chahar Dara district of Kunduz province against Taliban fighters who had been threatening NATO supply lines from Russia. An estimated 700 Afghan troops and 50...
In this article: Anglicans, Taliban, Hezbollah, Catholicism, The Vatican, Pope Benedict, Xinjiang, China, and Roman Catholic Church
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The St. Petersburg Times | November 02, 2009
Time to Take the Devil Out of NATO
...basis. (Although the INF applied to only two countries - the United States and the Soviet Union/Russia - NATO's European members have observed the treaty limitations to avoid sparking an arms race with Russia.) Surely, Medvedev...
In this article: Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, United States, Krokodil, Barack Obama, Mikhail Margelov, and George W. Bush
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | 1 day ago
Pressure Builds Over Obama's Afghanistan Plan
...to Afghanistan and Pakistan, recently went to Russia to discuss Afghanistan. He has also met with representatives from the NATO countries involved in Afghanistan. He told reporters on Monday, "With the elections now behind us, we're going to...
In this article: Barack Obama, Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, James Appathurai, David R. Obey, On the merits, E mail, and Stanley A. McChrystal
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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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