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/ 4 February 2009
A senior British officer serving in Afghanistan has been arrested on suspicion of leaking official secrets, the Ministry of Defence said on Wednesday.
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/ 4 February 2009
Pakistani engineers on Wednesday opened an alternative supply route for Nato in Afghanistan after militants blew up a key bridge and torched trucks.
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/ 20 January 2009
Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Tuesday the killing of civilians by foreign troops was a main source of instability in Afghanistan.
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/ 30 December 2008
This week’s eruption of violence pitting Israelis against Palestinians in Gaza could be seen as a metaphor for the unpredictable year of 2008.
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/ 16 December 2008
In Afghanistan, a deadly Taliban insurgency, rampant crime and an unchecked drugs trade show no sign of abating.
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/ 26 November 2008
President Hamid Karzai has criticised the US and other foreign countries for creating a ”parallel government” in Afghanistan’s countryside.
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/ 27 October 2008
Experts argue that a handful of warships can do little to stamp out the lucrative Somali piracy business.
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/ 23 October 2008
A Nato flotilla sailing toward the Somali coast will begin anti-piracy operations within the next few days, according to officials.
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/ 21 October 2008
The failure of Nato countries to send more combat troops to Afghanistan revealed a ”wavering” political will, says the supreme military commander.
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/ 17 October 2008
British defence officials were on Thursday investigating reports that civilians were killed in an air strike by Nato forces in Afghanistan.
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/ 15 October 2008
Nato warships were steaming through the Suez Canal on Wednesday en route to Somalia to help combat piracy off the lawless African country’s coast.
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/ 10 October 2008
A ship laden with cement was hijacked in the pirate-ridden waters between Somalia and Yemen, a government official said on Friday.
The US called on Nato on Thursday to allow the alliance to attack the Afghan opium trade, which it said was bringing the Taliban up to -million.
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/ 20 September 2008
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev accused Nato of provoking the conflict with Georgia but said this did not mean Russia planned to isolate itself.
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/ 19 September 2008
Ukraine’s chances of joining Nato have been ”considerably weakened” by the country’s political crisis, says Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.
Russia lashed out at the West on Wednesday for ratcheting up tensions in the Black Sea with an increased Nato naval presence.
President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Wednesday he had no regrets about sending 700 more troops to Afghanistan, after insurgents killed 10 soldiers
European leaders warned Russia on Sunday to withdraw its forces rapidly from Georgia or face unspecified consequences.
Moscow has to take some of the blame. But it is the West’s policy of liberal interventionism that has fuelled war in Georgia.
The Kremlin on Tuesday night dictated humiliating peace terms to Georgia as the price for halting the Russian invasion of the small Black Sea country.
A Russian envoy called on Nato to hold an extraordinary Russia-Nato council on Tuesday to discuss the dire situation in Georgia.
Georgia and South Ossetian separatists reported a heavy battle involving artillery on Thursday in the breakaway region.
Nato killed dozens of Taliban insurgents in an air strike on Sunday in Afghanistan’s south-eastern province of Khost, the provincial governor said.
The Nato-led effort to subdue the Taliban suffered one of its heaviest blows since the 2001 invasion on Sunday when nine US soldiers were killed.
Afghan police backed by Nato air strikes killed 14 Taliban insurgents after the militants attacked a small town in eastern Afghanistan.
A suicide attack on a Nato convoy in southern Afghanistan on Friday killed 10 civilians and wounded some Nato soldiers.
Afghan and Nato-led forces killed or wounded hundreds of Taliban on Thursday in an offensive to clear the militants from the outskirts of Kandahar.
Nato on Wednesday accused Russia of ramping up tensions with neighbour Georgia and said Moscow’s rapid build-up of troops in the breakaway republic of Abkhazia threatened Georgia’s territorial integrity. The alliance called on Russia and Georgia to resolve their differences over Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Georgia’s two rebel republics.
United States President George Bush set the stage for a clash at his last Nato summit on Wednesday by pressing reluctant West European allies to set former Soviet republics Georgia and Ukraine on a path to membership. He also urged allies to follow the example of France and host nation Romania in providing extra troops for Nato’s battle against Islamist insurgents in Afghanistan.
France will not support bids by the former Soviet republics of Georgia and Ukraine to become members of Nato, putting it at odds with the United States, French Prime Minister Francois Fillon said on Tuesday. ”France will not give its green light to the entry of Ukraine and Georgia,” Fillon told France Inter radio.
The prospect of France returning to Nato’s military command after more than four decades of estrangement is tilting the balance of transatlantic relations. The United States is courting France as a new partner in leadership, overshadowing Britain and Germany, diplomats and analysts say, even though President Nicolas Sarkozy is likely to skirt the reintegration issue at this week’s Bucharest summit.
Hundreds of Serbs in north Kosovo clashed with United Nations police and Nato peacekeepers on Monday in the worst violence since the Albanian majority declared independence last month. Riots erupted in the town of Mitrovica after several hundred UN special police backed by French Nato peacekeepers stormed a UN court in the town and arrested dozens of Serbs.