Tag: Nato

BRUSSELS - NATO refused to apologise Friday for a deadly airstrike on Libyan rebel tanks, saying that the military alliance was unaware that the opposition was using such vehicles.
"I'm not apologising," Rear Admiral Russell Harding, deputy commander of NATO's Libya operations, told a news briefing.
"The situation on the ground, as I said, was extremely fluid and remains extremely fluid. Up until yesterday we had no information that the TNC or opposition forces were using

ROME - NATO on Thursday denied bombing Libya's biggest oil field after accusations from Moamer Kadhafi's regime, saying fires at the Al-Sarir field were more likely to be linked to skirmishes in the region.
"The accusation by Colonel Kadhafi that NATO was responsible for fires in the Sarir Oil Fields is false," NATO said in a statement from its base in Naples which is overseeing military operations in Libya.
"Attacks last week by pro-Kadhafi forces have resulted in a number

KABUL - NATO troops hunted down an Afghan policeman who shot dead two American soldiers this week, killing him with the help of intelligence tip-offs, the military said Thursday.
Wearing a border police uniform, the man shot the soldiers inside a police compound on Monday while US military advisers were holding talks with a local colonel. The colonel later identified them as American.

AJDABIYAH - A NATO air strike killed at least five rebels near the Libyan port of Brega on Thursday, medics said, and insurgents reported Muammar Gaddafi's forces killed five more in a bombardment of besieged Misrata.
Wounded rebels being brought to the hospital in Ajdabiyah in rebel-held east Libya said their position was hit by an air strike on Thursday outside the contested port.
"It was a NATO air strike on us. We were near our vehicles near Brega," wounded fighter

QUETTA - Unknown armed men attacked and torched two tankers carrying fuel for NATO forces in Afghanistan near Dhadar area in Bolan district some 125 km east of the provincial capital Quetta on Wednesday.
"About six gunmen riding on bikes attacked NATO oil tankers on National Highway near Dhadar and torched them", Levies sources said adding that later, the assailants managed to escape.
Law enforcement agencies personnel reached the place soon after the incident and cordoned

BRUSSELS - Western air strikes have taken out 30 percent of Muammar Gaddafi's military capacity since the bombing campaign started on March 19, a NATO general said Tuesday.

MAZAR-I-SHARIF - NATO troops killed six civilians during a night raid on a house in northern Afghanistan's Sar-e Pul province late, the provincial governor told Reuters.
The NATO-led force said soldiers on a joint operation with Afghan troops had killed five men who were armed and opened fire on them. They are investigating the identity of the dead men, a spokesman said.
Afghans are allowed by law to own guns, and in rural areas many do, to protect against threats from

LANDIKOTAL - The security forces along with Khyber Agency's political administration, in a raid on two godowns in the Gagra area of Landikotal, seized four cars, charas and wood and arrested two people allegedly involved in damping NATO's stolen items on Sunday.
Reportedly, the security forces and the political administration raided two godowns and recovered four parked motorcars, a huge quantity of charas and wood stolen from NATO containers.

PESHAWAR - Militants early Friday beheaded three security guards at a NATO truck terminal and damaged 10 oil tankers in a restive Pakistani tribal area bordering Afghanistan, officials said.
The murders took place at the NATO supply vehicle hub in Landi Kotal, a town in the restive Khyber tribal district where the bulk of supplies destined for foreign troops in Afghanistan pass through.
"Early Friday we found the beheaded bodies of three security guards from the NATO

KABUL - Continued militancy and skirmishes have claimed the lives of more than 100 soldiers with NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in the first quarter of the current year.
Since the beginning 2011, according to iCasalties, a website tracking the casualties of NATO-led forces in war on terror in Afghanistan, 103 soldiers with majority of them Americans have been killed in the post-Taliban country, a Chinese news agency reported.
The fatalities of

QUETTA - Gunmen in Balochistan opened fire on a tanker carrying oil for NATO forces in Afghanistan on Thursday, killing its driver and setting the vehicle ablaze, officials said. The attack took place near the town of Wadh in Khuzdar district, local police official Jumma Khan told AFP.
Unidentified gunmen flagged the vehicle to stop and opened fire when the driver ignored them, Khan said, adding that the driver was killed and his helper was wounded.

NEW YORK - Pakistan is so busy fighting its own Islamist militants that it can do little more to help NATO forces battling in neighbouring Afghanistan, NATO's top civilian there said on Monday.
Mark Sedwill, senior civilian representative for the Western military alliance in Afghanistan, said Pakistani attitudes were hardening toward guerrilla groups that had previously been supported by the state. "In the past, they had relations with various groups," he told the Asia Society

NEW YORK - Pakistan is so busy fighting its own extremist militants that it can do little more to help NATO forces battling in neighboring Afghanistan, NATO's top civilian there said Monday.
Mark Sedwill, senior civilian representative for the Western military alliance in Afghanistan, said Pakistani attitudes were hardening toward guerrilla groups that had previously been supported by the state.
"In the past, they had relations with various groups," he told the Asia Society

ISLAMABAD - Information Minister Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan Monday claimed that not only the US but NATO forces were also involved in conducting drone attacks inside Pakistani territory. "Pakistan has conveyed its concerns regarding drone attacks not only to the US but also to the NATO forces. The prime minister has told them that the drone attacks were proving counter-productive and were hence promoting extremism rather than countering terrorism," she said while briefing the media on

KARACHI - The supply of commercial and strategic cargo to Afghanistan under Pak-Afghan Transit Trade (PATT) has resumed after witnessing over a month-long suspension, Pakistan Today learnt Monday.
According to importers and transporters, at least 10,000, Afghanistan-bound TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units), carrying commercial and non-commercial cargo, were stuck up at the country's seaports.
The supply of goods to the neighbouring landlocked country had come to a complete

KALAT/PESHAWAR - A driver was injured and two Nato trailers were set alight in Sorab area of Kalat district on Monday. According to Levis sources, the Nato trailers carrying goods were on their way to Afghanistan from Karachi when unidentified armed men intercepted the vehicles at Gewa cross and opened fire, injuring the driver identified as Muhammad Jhangir. The armed assailants later set the trailers on fire and fled away.
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BRUSSELS - The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) agreed on Sunday to take command of military operations in Libya from a US-led coalition, a NATO official said.
"NATO has decided today to implement all aspects of the UN Resolution 1973 to protect civilians and civilian-populated areas under threat of attack from the [Muammer] Gaddafi regime," a NATO official said on condition of anonymity. US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on US television that the country would