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PRAGUE * The Czech Republic and the United States will sign a treaty yesterday to build a missile defence radar on Czech soil despite opposition at home and in Russia.

Kabul, Jul 5 Over a dozen civilians, among them women and children, were killed by a NATO air raid in Nuristan province, eastern Afghanistan, the government's sources reported.

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Despite Gaz de France, a French company, being excluded from taking part in the Nabucco consortium due to objections by the Turkish government, the pipeline project to bring Caspian gas to Europe will remain a ...

Every year, the number of troops grows -- and so do enemy attacks. COMMENT Sunday, July 6, 2008; Page B06 EACH YEAR since 2002, the number of U.S. and allied troops in Afghanistan has grown.

Medics treat a battle casualty in Sangin, Afghanistan. Battlefield practices that could come to influence civilian medicine include the revival of tourniquets and the use of remarkable new powders that ... His ...

French diplomat Alain Le Roy was named Monday to succeed Jean-Marie Guehenno as head of the UN department of peacekeeping operations , spokeswoman Michele Montas said.

WARSAW - Poland spurned as insufficient on Friday a U.S. offer to boost its air defenses in return for basing anti-missile interceptors on its soil but said it remained open ...

Daily Press Briefing Tom Casey, Deputy Spokesman Washington, DC July 1, 2008 INDEX: MISSILE DEFENSE U.S. Continues Discussions with the Government of Poland / Negotiation Among Friends U.S. in Negotiations with ...

Islamabad diary Friday, July 04, 2008 Ayaz Amir Go down the list of the leading clowns purporting to run the country's affairs and ask this question again.

Tales from the Black Sea The Abkhaz and the Georgians have reason to resent each other - but both need to rebuild trust if they are to have a prosperous future From The Economist Sukhumi and Tbilisi .

WARSAW: Poland and the United States have not yet reached an agreement to station a US missile shield on the territory of the ex-communist NATO member, Polish Defence Minister Bogdan Klich said Thursday.

Just in time for Independence Day, the bible of the American left, The New York Times , continues to opine that the United States is a 'nation in decline.' Hoping to see a Democrat in the White House, the ...

The Pentagon has extended the tour of 2,200 Marines in Afghanistan, after insisting for months the unit would come home on time.

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French President Nicolas Sarkozy has offered his backing to Macedonia in the country's bid to join NATO and the EU.

General Wesley "Flap-jaw" Clark recently said of John McCain that "riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down" is no qualification to be president, and the immediate accusation was that he was guilty of ...

More helicopters, surveillance aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles are needed in Afghanistan to support the armed forces there, a senior NATO official said Wednesday.

President Bush said Wednesday it has been a "tough month" in Afghanistan, where more U.S. and NATO troops died during the past two months than in Iraq.

By Nick Allen, Tarin Kowt , July 2 : A Dutch soldier snaps a photo of an Afghan elder for his security clearance at the local army base and tells a seated ring of village leaders that he later intends to pass ...