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European nations are unlikely to contribute more troops to Afghanistan, the head of the European Commission said on Tuesday, as President Barack Obama considers boosting U.S. forces there.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization's envoy to the South Caucasus, Robert Simmons, asserted on November 6 that NATO is not jockeying over Armenia with its Moscow-led counterweight, the Collective Security Treaty Organization .

Timothy Garton Ash Published on Wednesday, Nov. 04, 2009 5:41PM EST Last updated on Thursday, Nov.

On Nov. 9, 1989, large crowds of German citizens from both East and West Berlin approached the Berlin Wall.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said late Thursday that he was very surprised by his Polish counterpart Radoslaw Sikorski's reported statement that the U.S. should deploy troops in Central Europe.

The United Nations announced Thursday it will evacuate more than half its international staff based in Afghanistan after a deadly Taliban attack on UN workers, prompting a dismayed reaction from NATO .

British deaths in Afghanistan have come with increasing frequency, from snipers, suicide attacks and roadside bombs.

Two NATO soldiers are missing in western Afghanistan after a routine resupply mission, the alliance said Friday.

Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan - North Atlantic Treaty Organization forces said today they were investigating reports that nine civilians were killed in a rocket strike aimed at insurgents in the volatile southern Afghan province of Helmand.

Imagine waking up one fine Sunday morning to learn that they are laying down barbed wire in your city.

Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Helmut Kohl's dream of a united Germany leading to a politically united Europe remains unfinished business.

Russia's foreign minister said Thursday he was surprised by Poland's call for more U.S. troops on Polish soil in response to Moscow's assertiveness, a news agency reported.

The nation's top military officer said Wednesday that he expected the Pentagon to ask Congress in the next few months for emergency financing to support the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, even though President Obama has pledged to end the Bush administration practice of paying for the conflicts with so-called supplemental funds that are outside the ...

Somali pirates moved two British hostages from their hijacked yacht on Thursday to a captured container ship now moored near a pirate haven.

Old buildings mix with a forest of modern satellite dishes in Herat. The Afghan government has shown few signs of turning the country into a functioning democracy.

A suspected U.S. missile strike killed two alleged militants Thursday in northwestern Pakistan, intelligence officials said, while Pakistani soldiers battled the Taliban in an insurgent stronghold elsewhere along the Afghan border.

Q1: Azerbaijan has signed a two-year individual partnership action plan with NATO in 2008.

Alleged 'Butcher Of Bosnia' In U.N. Court Hearing Share + Nov 3, 2009 8:55 am US/Eastern Alleged 'Butcher Of Bosnia' In U.N. Court Hearing THE HAGUE, Netherlands 1 of 6 Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic, seen in this Aug.

The foreign affairs and defense ministries are wrapping up preparations for opening the Serbian mission at NATO HQ, daily Veeernje Novosti writes.

An Afghan policeman opened fire on British soldiers in the volatile southern province of Helmand, killing five, British and Afghan authorities said Wednesday, raising concerns about discipline within the Afghan forces and possible infiltration by insurgents.