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ISLAMABAD - Pakistan announced Monday it will host navies from 45 countries, including the United States, China and Russia, for a joint military exercise in the North Arabian Sea later this month. It will be the first time in a decade that Russian naval ships have attended drills with multiple ...

A senior US defense official cited by Reuters Monday said Donald Trump's desire to get US troops "home by Christmas" had featured in a "flurry of calls" among NATO allies.  From Brussels, NATO spokewoman Oana Lungescu said the alliance's stance in conflict-ravaged Afghanistan "hasn't changed." NATO's mission Resolute Support comprises, according to its website, around 16,000 ...

On 5 November, a rally was held in Vienna, Austria, commemorating the victims of Monday's massacre that claimed the lives of four and left 22 more wounded. French politician Karel Vereycken has explained how Europe found itself in Islamism's crosshairs and why the EU urgently needs to team up ...

Source link www.rferl.org Pakistani officials say several armed men have attacked a convoy transporting four armored vehicles for the NATO forces in Afghanistan and set them alight. The October 16 attack happened on the outskirts of the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, police official Zaheer Afridi told RFE/RL. Afridi ...

Article content continuedHowever, Islamabad has denied reports that its forces are deployed inside Azerbaijan.Turkey’s Erdogan denounced the call for a ceasefire and, according to reports, has lent its US-supplied F-16s to Azerbaijan’s forces along with drones that are equipped with Canadian technology.We apologize, but this video has failed to ...

Greece and Turkey agreed Thursday to safety measures aimed at preventing standoffs between their warships and military aircraft in the Mediterranean Sea from breaking out into open conflict, NATO said.Read more: Turkey marks 1922 victory over Greece amid eastern Mediterranean tensionsTensions between the neighbors and alliance members ran high ...

Although Moscow’s calls to discuss close encounters with the US and NATO have fallen on deaf ears, it will retrain troops to make sure these frequent mid-air incidents don’t get out of hand, a top Russian general has said. Russian armed forces have registered “almost 30 NATO strategic aircraft ...

Source link www.rferl.org The Taliban's burgeoning financial might could make the militant group immune to pressure from the international community as it negotiates a role in postwar Afghanistan, according to a confidential report commissioned by NATO and obtained by RFE/RL. The Taliban “has achieved, or is close to achieving, ...

President Donald Trump has been nominated for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, just weeks after helping to broker peace between Israel and the United Arab Emirates.He was nominated by Christian Tybring-Gjedde, a member of the Norwegian Parliament, who praised Trump for his efforts towards resolving conflicts worldwide.'For his merit, ...

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said it is important that India's military power is based on indigenous technology which will enable it to exercise "strategic autonomy". It will be Singh's second visit to Moscow since June. He had represented India at the Victory Day Parade in Moscow on June 24 ...