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Pakistani Taliban enter fray around strategic NATO routes

By Taha Siddiqui | 01/31/13

Fighting between rival militant groups near the Khyber Pass has reportedly claimed more than 70 lives over the past week.

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NATO members need to step up, says UK defense minister

By Ben Quinn | 11/02/12

Philip Hammond said that Europe needs to take greater responsibility for its own security and be ready to act abroad. But NATO will have to become more efficient first, he warned.

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NATO vows to back Turkey in Syria clashes. Is a broader war likely?

By Howard LaFranchi | 10/10/12

For the sixth consecutive day, Turkey and Syria have exchanged artillery fire. Neither wants to see the Syrian conflict turn into a regional war, analysts say, but other factors point to rising tensions.

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Joint raids suspended: NATO's Afghanistan strategy hits hurdle

By Tom A. Peter | 09/19/12

The new policy is likely to put even more distance between NATO and Afghan forces, stressing relations at a time when NATO has been working to hand over security to the Afghans.

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Pakistan's black marketers cheer reopening of NATO supply lines

By Aamir Latif | 08/21/12

When Pakistan closed NATO supply routes in November, arms smugglers lost access to one of the easiest sources of materiel.

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Why Turkey is holding back, for now, after Syria downed its jet

By Scott Peterson | 06/27/12

NATO and Turkey talked tough about Syria's shooting down of a Turkish military jet at an emergency summit in Brussels today. But they sought to calm fears of a broader escalation.

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Afghans in uniform kill NATO soldier

By Priyanka Boghani | 06/19/12

Attackers dressed in Afghan police uniforms gunned down a NATO peacekeeping member.

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Suicide bombings in Afghanistan highlight difficult task ahead for US, NATO

By Tom A. Peter | 06/07/12

A twin suicide bombing in Kandahar, Afghanistan’s second largest city, left at least 22 people dead and as many as 50 injured on Wednesday in one of the deadliest bombings so far this summer.

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Why Pakistan still hasn't reopened NATO supply lines

By Mahvish Ahmad, Christian Science Monitor | 05/21/12

Pakistan still has not come to a deal with the US to reopen supply lines for the Afghan war.

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Russia urges NATO to stay in Afghanistan beyond 2014

By Fred Weir, Christian Science Monitor | 04/20/12

Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov urged NATO to keep its forces in Afghanistan beyond President Barack Obama's 2014 deadline for withdrawing from the decade-old war.