NATO

Russia would allow NATO to use its territory to withdraw international troops from Afghanistan, the French Ambassador to Moscow said Thursday.

A helicopter of the NATO-led ISAF force crashed Monday in eastern Afghanistan, without causing casualties, the organization said.

Europe remains a key partner to US efforts to achieve global security, the US secretaries of state and defence assured the Munich Security Conference on Saturday.

Afghan and NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) during a joint operation on Friday in Helmand province 555 km south of Afghan capital Kabul captured a Taliban local leader, a statement released by the alliance here said

NATO expects Afghan forces to take full responsibility for their country's security by mid-2013

NATO's decade-old involvement in Afghanistan was set to dominate a meeting Thursday of the military alliance's defence ministers, amid increased attention on French withdrawal plans and alleged links between Pakistan and the Taliban.

NATO and the U.S. experts are scheduled to visit Baku on Feb.14.

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Monday the military alliance was sticking to the transition plan in Afghanistan mapped out in 2010, despite French proposals to speed up NATO's handover of security to Afghan forces.

A soldier with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was killed in the Taliban-linked attack in Afghanistan on Friday, bringing the number of casualties to four since Thursday, a statement of the alliance said

2011 has been an important year in Georgia’s integration into NATO and the EU, Georgian Deputy Prime Minister Giorgi Baramidze said on Thursday.

A man in Afghan army uniform shot dead two NATO soldiers in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, the military alliance said.