The country’s role in Africa has diminished somewhat since the Thabo Mbeki era and Ramaphosa is losing relevance

Russia and local experts have said the ammunition and weapons manufactured in South Africa is of Nato and not Russian military standard

Simmering tensions could see the country partitioned between east and west

Today, the whole world stands where Europe was in 1945. Europe recovered then thanks to massive international assistance. That same attitude of cooperation and solidarity is…

The UK is preparing to pull 1 500 troops out of Afghanistan next year before rapidly accelerating its withdrawal at the beginning of 2014.

The US says the Taliban are set to retake control of Afghanistan when Nato withdraws, raising fears of a failure of Western policy after a costly war.

Nato has ended its training mission in Iraq. Hopes for an extension deal collapsed as Baghdad refused to grant the troops immunity from prosecution.

Nato will end its seven-year troop training mission in Iraq at the end of December — coinciding with the withdrawal of US troops from the country.

Pakistan has warned it could end its support for the US-led war on terror if its sovereignty is violated again after a Nato attack that saw 24 dead.

Nato has denied a report that one of its aircraft carriers left 61 migrants to die in the sea after they fled the conflict in Libya.

North Atlantic Treaty Organisation foreign ministers gathered on Thursday in Berlin amid calls for increased air strikes on Muammar Gaddafi’s forces.

Libyan rebels ceded ground to Muammar Gaddafi’s advancing forces on Monday as the US came under increasing pressure to arm the opposition.

Russian president-elect Dmitry Medvedev maintained pressure on Nato on Tuesday not to grant membership to Ukraine and Georgia, saying a week before an alliance summit that it…