http://www.news24.com/Tags/Companies/nato Argotic Syndication Framework, http://www.codeplex.com/argotic http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Thu, 17 May 2012 03:39:04 +0200 Founded in the early days of the Cold War, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation has grown into a collective defence group of 28 nations from North America and Europe. http://www.news24.com/World/News/Nato-The-worlds-biggest-defence-alliance-20120516 Top Pakistani leaders are set to discuss ending a blockade of foreign military supply routes into Afghanistan and repairing US relations. http://www.news24.com/World/News/Pakistan-blockade-of-Nato-supplies-may-end-20120515 Mass protests and an intense security lockdown will greet leaders of 50 countries gathering in Chicago this weekend for the Nato summit, with organisers ever mindful of violence. http://www.news24.com/World/News/Protests-security-to-greet-Nato-summit-20120515 Nato struck only "legitimate military targets" during its 2011 operation in Libya, the military alliance says, responding to a Human Rights Watch report alleging "unlawful attacks". http://www.news24.com/World/News/Nato-legitimate-Libya-military-targets-20120514 US President Barack Obama has welcomed the Kabul government's move to have local forces take control of security in a large new slice of the country as an "important step forward". http://www.news24.com/World/News/Obama-hails-important-Afghan-step-20120514 The Nato chief has expressed the alliance's determination to push ahead with building a missile defence system, following what he called the first successful test of the concept. http://www.news24.com/World/News/Nato-to-push-ahead-with-missile-shield-20120514 Nato airstrikes killed 72 civilians in Libya last year, HRW says, accusing the western alliance of failing to acknowledge the scope of collated damage it caused during the campaign that helped oust Muammar Gaddafi. http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/Nato-underplayed-civilian-deaths-in-Libya-20120514 Two members of the Afghan police opened fire on British soldiers who were mentoring them in the south of the country, killing two, Britain's Defence Ministry says. http://www.news24.com/World/News/Afghan-cops-kill-two-UK-soldiers-20120513 Nato Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and US President Barack Obama have agreed that the conflict in Afghanistan will be one of the topics addressed at the meeting. http://www.news24.com/World/News/Afghanistan-tops-alliance-summit-agenda-20120510 The Afghan government has condemned the recent Taliban announcement of the start of their annual "spring offensive", calling it cowardly and un-Islamic. http://www.news24.com/World/News/Afghan-Taliban-spring-offensive-slammed-20120507 A soldier with Nato's US-led coalition in Afghanistan has been killed by a man in Afghan army uniform, in the latest so-called "green-on-blue" attack. http://www.news24.com/World/News/Man-in-Afghan-uniform-kills-Nato-soldier-20120506 Afghan President Hamid Karzai has hailed a strategic pact with the US but has warned that tough negotiations still lie ahead on the US military presence in Afghanistan after 2014. http://www.news24.com/World/News/Karzai-warns-difficult-US-talks-ahead-20120503 An Afghan soldier has fatally shot an American service member and a local interpreter in southern Afghanistan, say officials. http://www.news24.com/World/News/Afghan-soldier-kills-US-service-member-20120426 Nato foreign and defence ministers will refine plans for withdrawing combat troops from Afghanistan this week in a meeting that comes after an insurgent attack in the heart of Kabul. http://www.news24.com/World/News/Nato-to-grapple-with-Afghan-troubles-20120417 Afghan President Hamid Karzai has blamed intelligence failures, particularly on the part of Nato forces supporting his government, for the worst co-ordinated insurgent attacks in 10 years of war. http://www.news24.com/World/News/Karzai-blames-Nato-for-attacks-20120416 The insurgents who mounted weekend attacks in central Kabul and other parts of Afghanistan carefully rehearsed for months, says a Taliban spokesperson. http://www.news24.com/World/News/Afghan-Taliban-rehearsed-attack-for-months-20120416 Explosions and gunfire have rocked the Afghan capital, Kabul as suicide bombers struck across Afghanistan in co-ordinated attacks in the start of the spring offensive. http://www.news24.com/World/News/Afghanistan-suicide-attacks-co-ordinated-20120415 Nato's commitment to Afghanistan after its troops pull out of the war-torn country in 2014 remains "unchanged", says Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen. http://www.news24.com/World/News/Nato-commitment-to-Afghanistan-unchanged-20120412 Washington and Kabul have hailed breakthroughs towards signing a treaty on relations after 2014 - but it will not cover the issue of the status of US troops remaining in Afghanistan. http://www.news24.com/World/News/US-Afghan-talks-face-hurdle-over-troops-20120412 At least 19 people have been killed and 39 wounded in three suicide attacks in Afghanistan, as spring heralded the "fighting season". http://www.news24.com/World/News/New-Afghan-fighting-season-19-dead-20120410