...criminals. Since 2000, most organized tours in Belgrade take foreign visitors to a downtown army headquarters laid to waste by NATO bombs in 1999, giving the inquisitive a chance to click a covert photo when police are not looking. The violent past is giving...
...is euphoric alongside Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles, ambassador in Kabul, who is quoted in a letter to the prime minister as saying NATO strategy in Afghanistan is "doomed to fail." Before either a President Obama or McCain sends 10,000 more troops into Afghanistan,...
..."The Greens' approach is different than any other party's. The NATO mission has to end now, UN forces have to be there instead of NATO (and) we need to start negotiations soon." MacKay said he respected the wishes of Parliament, who voted to keep the mission...
...that sometimes end up being ahead of the curve. He focused on deficiencies in U.S. policy toward Bosnia, he called for NATO expansion before it became fashionable and most recently prodded the Bush administration to back a $1 billion package to rebuild Georgia...
...Obama victory might mean for their mission. Much of what American soldiers now do amounts to a peacekeeping effort, similar to the NATO mission in Bosnia. Can the U.S. safely relinquish the peacekeeping component to the Iraqis while successfully pursuing a...
...a representative for the powerful warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar were also at the meal, Zaeef said. The U.S. has asked Japan and NATO allies who have refused to send troops to Afghanistan to pay $17 bil to help build up the Afghan army, U.S. defense officials...
...feeling anything these days it is isolation as a consequence of its disproportionate use of force in Georgia." In fact, the NATO-Russia Council, which was held at most of the NATO meetings during the past two years, will be effectively suspended this time....
...countries angrily rebuked Russia when it invaded Georgia in August, while Moscow has been enraged by attempts to expand Nato to Russian borders and place a missile defence shield in Eastern Europe. The exercises are part of the Stability-2008 strategic manoeuvres...
...territory by Oct. 11. But Russia plans to keep 3,800 troops in South Ossetia and the same number in Abkhazia _ a presence U.S., NATO and the European Union say violates its obligation under the cease-fire. Ban said there is, as yet, "little clarity" about...
...for more trainers for the Afghan security forces. Currently the U.S. has 33,000 troops in Afghanistan, including 13,000 with the NATO-led force, and 20,000 fighting the insurgency and training Afghan forces. Asked about comments made by a British commander,...