Read more NATO stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/183/nato.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 11:32:45 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74617/backing-afghan-militias-makes-nato-allies-queasy.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe US hasn’t given its Western allies the details of its plan to recruit and fund tribal militias to fight the Taliban in Afghanistan, fearing, correctly, that they won’t like it, the Guardian reports. The strategy is already under way in 14 areas, with a budget of some $1.3...http://www.newser.com/story/74617/backing-afghan-militias-makes-nato-allies-queasy.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 23 Nov 2009 9:43:18 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74554/us-recruits-allies-for-afghan-surge.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPresident Obama isn't planning to go it alone: The administration has hopes that from 3,000 to 7,000 NATO troops will be committed to joining the US troop surge in Afghanistan by the time he rolls out his new strategy after Thanksgiving. Advanced talks are underway, the Wall Street...http://www.newser.com/story/74554/us-recruits-allies-for-afghan-surge.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 21 Nov 2009 8:39:35 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73537/nato-airstrike-kills-7-afghan-soldiers.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA NATO airstrike in the western province of Badghis mistakenly hit a joint base housing coalition troops and Afghan security forces, killing four Afghan soldiers and three policemen, Afghan officials said today. An Afghan army commando unit, district police members and foreign forces were in the base in the Bala...http://www.newser.com/story/73537/nato-airstrike-kills-7-afghan-soldiers.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 07 Nov 2009 8:30:16 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73499/2-american-nato-troops-missing-in-afghanistan.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTwo NATO soldiers have been missing in Western Afghanistan since Wednesday after a routine supply mission went awry. “We continue exhaustive search and rescue operations to locate our missing service members,” a NATO spokesperson tells the BBC . “We are doing everything we can to find them.” That part of Afghanistan...http://www.newser.com/story/73499/2-american-nato-troops-missing-in-afghanistan.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 06 Nov 2009 11:44:25 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73043/in-adoring-kosovo-clinton-gets-statue.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThousands of ethnic Albanians braved low temperatures and a cold wind in Kosovo's capital Pristina to welcome former President Bill Clinton today as he attended the unveiling of an 11-foot statue of himself on a key boulevard that also bears his name. Clinton is celebrated as a hero by Kosovo's...http://www.newser.com/story/73043/in-adoring-kosovo-clinton-gets-statue.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 01 Nov 2009 12:41:27 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/70851/arctic-thaw-may-lead-to-nato-russia-chill.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagNATO’s new European commander is wary of Russian intentions in the Arctic, where climate change is opening up trade routes and access to billions of barrels of oil. James Stavridis looks “at the high north and I think it could either be a zone of conflict, I hope not, a...http://www.newser.com/story/70851/arctic-thaw-may-lead-to-nato-russia-chill.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 02 Oct 2009 14:00:54 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69726/nato-chief-lets-combine-us-russian-missile-defenses.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagOne day after the US decided to scrap a missile-defense system that Russia opposed, NATO wants to make relations with Moscow even cozier. Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen proposed combining Russia's anti-missile defenses with those of NATO and the US, Reuters reports. He pitched it as a shared interest: "If North...http://www.newser.com/story/69726/nato-chief-lets-combine-us-russian-missile-defenses.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 18 Sep 2009 6:38:56 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/68852/suicide-bomb-rocks-nato-base-at-kabul-airport.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA suicide bomber blew up his car outside a NATO military base at Afghanistan's main airport today, killing at least two civilians and wounding six others, Reuters reports. Eyewitnesses saw huge flames rising from the airport, which has endured Taliban rocket attacks and suicide bombs in the past. An Afghan...http://www.newser.com/story/68852/suicide-bomb-rocks-nato-base-at-kabul-airport.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 08 Sep 2009 5:48:50 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/68627/nato-probes-disastrous-air-strike-90-dead.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagNATO will conduct a "thorough investigation" into the air strike on two Taliban-hijacked fuel tankers in Afghanistan that killed 90 people today, many of them believed to be civilians, the alliance's secretary general said. An investigation team has already been sent to the area as reports trickle in of horrific...http://www.newser.com/story/68627/nato-probes-disastrous-air-strike-90-dead.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 04 Sep 2009 8:27:05 CDT