NATO steps up Kosovo patrols as decision nears
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PRISTINA, Serbia  - NATO stepped up patrols in   Kosovo on Thursday to head off possible violence as a decision   nears on the fate of Serbia's breakaway province.
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NATO defense ministers agreed Thursday on an expansion of the alliance's peacekeeping mission in Afghanistan and will send troops into the western parts of the country, the alliance's top official said.
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Kosovo on Saturday inched closer to its historic declaration of independence, with a growing sense of excitement among its people and the European Union launching a police and judicial mission to smoothen the birth of the world's newest state.
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Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld is checking up on promises for continued support in the war in Afghanistan by checking in with NATO defense leaders in southeastern Europe.
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NATO agreed this week to set up a training mission for the Iraqi military in what the official called a "significant" sign of progress since US-led invasion splintered the alliance last year, but Washington ...
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NATO may be handing peacekeeping duties in Bosnia to the EU this week, but it will continue searching for alleged war criminals, raising questions over who will control the manhunt.
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PRISTINA, Serbia  - NATO is prepared for the worst-case scenario of regional violence in the event Serbs in north Kosovo revolt over an imminent decision on the fate of the province, the NATO commander there said on Tuesday.
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NATO leaders today agreed to step up operations in Afghanistan and lift the rules of engagement, said Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer. A NATO spokesman says this means 26,000 allied troops are now "more usable" for combat in Afghanistan.
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The European Union gave the final approval Saturday for the deployment of a 1,800-member policing and administration mission in Kosovo.
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Nato is to expand its mission in Afghanistan to cover the whole of the insurgency-hit country.
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NATO leaders on Wednesday invited their old enemy Serbia &#151; along with Montenegro and Bosnia-Herzegovina &#151; to join a program considered a first step toward eventual membership in the alliance.
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PRISTINA, Serbia and Montenegro, Nov 10  The United Nations plans to deploy more international police officers to ethnic minority areas in Kosovo, responding to continuing security fears in the U N-run ...
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NATO is set to assume command of US-led troops in eastern Afghanistan, completing its expansion across the country in a move that the alliance describes as the most significant in its history.
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Kosovo has asked NATO to  secure a large reservoir in the north out of concern Serbs  living there might cut vital water supplies if the Albanian  majority declares independence from Serbia within weeks.
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JARINJE, Kosovo  - NATO peacekeepers were being sent to newly independent Kosovo's border with Serbia on Tuesday to defend frontier posts under attack by Serbs who oppose its secession.
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BRUSSELS -- More than a week after NATO's top leaders publicly demanded reinforcements for their embattled mission in southern Afghanistan, only one member of the 26-nation alliance has offered more troops, raising questions about NATO's largest military operation ever outside of Europe and the goal...
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SKOROBISTE, Serbia  - In the sweltering heat of the Balkan summer, the stray dogs cannot even muster a bark as a NATO foot patrol makes its way through the hilltop village of Skorobiste in southwest Kosovo.