WASHINGTON, May 20, 2012 Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari is in Chicago for a crucial NATO summit where he is set to discuss the reopening of the Afghan supply routes, but a top U.S. official said the resolution would still take time amid signs of friction between the two sides. The summit is expected to make important decisions with regard to the future of Afghanistan, and the presence of the Pakistani President was being seen as a sign of improved U.S.-Pak ties. While the ...
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BRUSSELS, April 18, 2012 The United States and its NATO allies are readying plans to pull away from the front lines in Afghanistan next year as President Barack Obama and fellow leaders try to show that the unpopular war is ending. Top military and diplomatic officials from the U.S. and NATO allies are meeting this week to finalize the combat handover program and a strategy for world support to the weak Afghan government and fledgling military after 2014. At the same time, the ...
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KABUL, March 16, 201 The U.S. campaign in Afghanistan suffered a double blow on Thursday when the Taliban broke off peace talks and President Hamid Karzai demanded NATO troops immediately pull out of rural areas because of anger over a U.S. soldier’s alleged killings of 16 civilians. The setbacks effectively paralyse the two main tracks for ending the 10-year-old war. Part of that exit strategy is to gradually transfer authority to Afghan forces while another tack is to pull ...
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ISLAMABAD, February 2, 2012 Pakistan on Wednesday dismissed the secret report of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), which again flagged links between the ISI and the Afghan Taliban, as “old wine in an even older bottle”. Interacting with journalists in Kabul after her meetings with the Afghan political leadership — including non-Pashtun leaders — Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar sought to disregard the reports on the ‘secret' NATO document, ...
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ISLAMABAD, January 14, 2012 (Tehelkanews) Pakistan’s top military and civilian leaders were set to meet on Saturday in a closed-door session to discuss new rules on coordinating with the United States and NATO, officials said. Islamabad’s uneasy alliance with the U.S. was brought to the brink of collapse by November air-strikes which killed Pakistani soldiers. The meeting could also provide an opportunity for reconciliation between the military and the civilian government ...
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KABUL, May 30, 2011 (AP) The top U.S. generals in Afghanistan are apologising for an airstrike that killed civilians in south-western Afghanistan. Gen. David Petraeus, Lt. Gen. David Rodriguez and the commander of the southwest say NATO’s top priority is to prevent civilian casualties and it takes such cases very seriously. In a joint statement issued early Monday by U.S. Marine Maj. Gen. John Toolan, they said the airstrike took place after a U.S. Marine was killed and five ...
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TRIPOLI: France and Britain, who first launched air attacks on Libya in coalition with the United States, on Tuesday criticized Nato's bombing campaign, saying it must do more to stop Muammar Gaddafi bombarding civilians. But at Nato headquarters in Brussels, Dutch Brig Gen Mark Van Uhm responded that the alliance was successfully enforcing an arms embargo against Libya, patrolling a no-fly zone and protecting civilians in the North African nation. Nato took over air operations from the ...
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BENGHAZI: Nato launched air strikes against Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's troops in the stricken port city of Misrata on Sunday after regime forces killed at least 11 people there over the weekend , rebels said. And in Brussels, an alliance official said that Nato warplanes had destroyed 11 regime tanks on the road to the eastern Libyan town of Ajdabiya and another 14 tanks near Misrata. On the diplomatic front, a high-ranking African Union delegation was on its way to Libya on Sunday to ...
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Brussels, April 8, 2011 At least five rebel fighters were killed on Thursday when their combat convoy was hit by a NATO airstrike. Rear Admiral Harding, deputy commander of the NATO operation, says the military alliance will not appologize for those deaths. NATO says its planes have struck rebels using tanks in their fight with the government forces in eastern Libya. Rear Admiral Russell Harding, the deputy commander of the NATO operation, says NATO had no previous information the ...
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Washington, March 24, 2011 As U.S. prepares to hand over the command and control of the military operation in Libya in the next few days, the Obama Administration has said that NATO would have a very important role to play in this regard. “There is an agreement that NATO is going to play a very important role in the command and control,” said Ben Rhodes Deputy National Security Advisor, adding that the terms and timeline of the transition is still being discussed at NATO. “The ...
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DEAUVILLE, France — Russian President Dmitry Medvedev agreed on Tuesday to attend next month's NATO summit and said Moscow was prepared to discuss the Alliance's proposed anti-missile shield. Medvedev was speaking in the elegant French seaside resort of Deauville after talks with French and German leaders that were partly overshadowed by news of a bloody separatist attack in the Russian republic of Chechnya. President Nicolas Sarkozy and Chancellor Angela Merkel hosted Medvedev in order ...
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KABUL: At least 45 civilians, many women and children, were killed in a rocket attack by the NATO-led foreign force in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province last week, a spokesman for the Afghan government said on Monday. The incident happened in Helmand's Sangin district on Friday when civilians crammed into a mud-built house to flee fighting between NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) troops and Taliban insurgents, Siyamak Herawi told Reuters. "The investigation ...
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