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Taliban militants fired rockets and mortars at a U.S. base in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing two American troops and wounding several more in a two-hour battle, officials said.

Reminiscent of the famous climactic scene in the classic movie Dr. Strangelove, Canadian General Walt Natynczyk rides a torpedo at the Armed Forces display at the Stampede in Calgary on July 3, 2009.

AMID threats from North Korea to launch a long-range missile towards the US over the July 4 long weekend, the US and Russia are expected to agree to deep cuts in their nuclear arsenals so as to present a united front when they meet next week.

Hundreds of British troops have key seized canal crossings in a Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan, military officials said on Friday, part of a new U.S.-led operation to wrest the initiative from insurgents.

The NATO door is open for anyone, including Georgia and Ukraine - says Michael McFaul, special assistant to the president and senior director for Russian affairs on the National Security Council staff has said before the meeting of the Russian and US president.

The head of U.S. Central Command warned Friday that the thousands of American troops surging into Afghanistan's turbulent Helmand province to battle the Taliban are in for a tough fight.

This was supposed to be Russia 's round in the battle over its backyard. All year, despite its own economic spasms, Moscow has earmarked great chunks of cash for its impoverished post-Soviet neighbors, seeking to lock in their loyalty over the long term and curtail Western influence in the region.

Concrete signs of Washington's new strategy for Afghanistan are taking shape with the final elements of some 8,500 U.S. Marines arriving in southern Helmand province, a Taliban stronghold, to bolster over-stretched British forces.

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NATO's new commander said Thursday that the situation in Afghanistan remains "very challenging," but that the Taliban and other insurgents can be defeated.

U.S. President Barack Obama hopes to reinvigorate Washington's moribund relations with Moscow when he travels to Russia for his first summit meeting with Russian President Dmitri Medvedev on July 6. But the two sides face serious divisions, and few are predicting the visit will produce anything close to a breakthrough.

Pakistani combat helicopters killed 28 militants from a hardline Islamist group during raids on hideouts in the famed Khyber region bordering Afghanistan, the military said on Thursday.

Obama's pursuit of a new U.S.-Russia nuclear arms pact to replace one that expires in December has dominated the attention focused on his trip to Moscow, the first stop in a weeklong trek that also will take him to Italy and Ghana.

Marines launch assault in Afghan valley Wheat and opium fields along the Helmand river are largely in the hands of Taliban fighters who have resisted NATO for years LOWER HELMAND RIVER VALLEY, Afghanistan - Reuters Last updated on Wednesday, Jul.

A Pakistani protester cries out in grief over a killing of prominent anti-Taliban Pakistani cleric by a suicide attacker last month.

Russia Council meeting in which Turkey was represented by Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet DavutoA Ylu ended in Greek island of Corfu on Saturday.

U.S. forces in Afghanistan said air strikes have killed at least 12 militants allegedly involved in sneaking foreign fighters from Pakistan into Afghanistan.

LONDON: Britain must strengthen its European defence alliances, review major defence programmes and reassess its nuclear deterrent in order to focus on rogue security threats, a panel of defence experts warned yesterday.

THOUSANDS of troops, backed by hundreds of tanks, artillery and other heavy weaponry, began rumbling through the North Caucasus yesterday, as Russia began its largest military exercises since last year's war with Georgia.

The new commander of all U.S. forces in Europe on Tuesday said quelling the Afghan insurgency would take more than bullets, calling for efforts to rebuild roads, schools and farms to win local support against the Taliban .