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. | A NATO airstrike killed 10 Afghan civilians, including five children, in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, local officials said, a toll that if confirmed is likely to raise tension between President Hamid Karzai’s government and U.S.-led NATO forces.
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. | The first of six Patriot missile batteries being sent to defend Turkey from possible attack from Syria is now operational, NATO has said.
The battery, provided by the Netherlands, “will help to protect the (southern) city and people of Adana against missile threats,” it said in a statement on Saturday. |
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. | Turkish police have broken up a violent mob in the port town of Iskenderun, after nationalist activists attacked three German soldiers.
28 protesters from the Turkish Union of Youth have been detained. The ultra |
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. | EUCOM deputy commander Charles Martoglio said the Patriot batteries would fall under NATO command “when set-up is complete and the systems are operational in the next several weeks”.
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. | The Special War Department within the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) trained hundreds of thousands of civilians, who later carried out murders and then buried the weapons they used underground, according to a report by a parliamentary commission to investigate coups.
The commission, titled the parliamentary Coup and Memorandum Investigation Commission, has stated in its report about its findings about past coups in the country that the weapons |
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. | Refuting news reports that Turkey plans on purchasing Patriot’s from the U.S., Erdo?an said that they have also made no such requests for missiles to be stationed along the border with Syria to NATO.
Prime Minister Tayyip Erdo?an has rejected claims that Turkey plans to purchase Patriot missiles from the States to secure the Syrian border in Turkey. Erdo?an also stated “We have also |
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. | NATO-member Turkey has already bolstered its own military presence along the 910-km (560-mile) border and has been responding in kind to gunfire and mortar shells hitting its territory from fighting between Syrian rebels and Syrian government forces.
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. | NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen plans to visit Azerbaijan on September 7, APA reports.
The NATO Secretary General will hold meetings with Azerbaijani |
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. | German forces began preparing for their withdrawal from Afghanistan at the start of the year. The number or Bundeswehr troops stationed in the country is already down to around 4,800 from a peak deployment of 5,350.
De Maiziere, who was making his seventh visit to Afghanistan since taking over the defense portfolio 16 months ago, expressed cautious optimism about the |
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. | The primary decision that NATO officials reached in Chicago this week was to leave behind an Afghanistan contaminated by a decade of hazardous military waste. The plan is for NATO to wash its collective hands of their toxic handiwork. There are estimated to be more than a thousand NATO dumpsites located in Afghanistan, holding thousands of tons of buried hazardous waste. If these NATO officials did the same in Germany or the United States they |
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. | “We have no intention of interfering in the internal situation in Syria. I don’t think that military intervention is capable of solving the problem,†Rasmussen said. |
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. | Turkey has blocked Israel’s participation in NATO’s upcoming Chicago summit in a sign of Turkey’s determination to maintain demands that stemmed from a deadly ship raid.
Turkish and Israeli relations worsened in May 2010 and have remained strained since then after Israeli naval commandos stormed the Mavi Marmara, a ship carrying humanitarian aid to |
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. | “NATO’s Afghanistan exit strategy is based on the withdrawal of the International Security Assistance Force [ISAF] from the country in 2014 after power is transferred to Afghans,†Pszel said in an interview with the Ekho Moskvy radio.
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. | One person was killed in Kabul, one in the eastern city of Jalalabad and at least four in Parwan province.
US officials apologised on Tuesday after Korans were “inadvertently” put in an incinerator at Bagram airbase. |
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. | Television stations showed the coffins of the soldiers draped in green and white Pakistani flags in a prayer ceremony at the headquarters of the regional command in Peshawar attended by army chief General Ashfaq Kayani.
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