NATO troops secure ransacked Kosovo border crossing
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NATO troops and U.N. police secured  Kosovo's northern borders late on Tuesday, facing down a  challenge by ethnic Serbs who ransacked the crossings in  protest at Kosovo's independence.
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NATO and Afghan government forces have   forced Taliban troops out of a southern Afghan district after a   two-week operation in which NATO said hundreds of militants   were killed.
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KFor troops rescue staff from torched border posts amid fears over partition of new state
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NATO assumed responsibility for security across the whole of insurgency-hit Afghanistan on Thursday when it took command in the east of the country from a U.S.-led coalition force.
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NATO-led troops launched an offensive against Taliban militants Tuesday in a volatile southern Afghan province where hundreds of militant fighters have amassed.
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Afghanistan and Pakistan agreed last week to joint patrols of their border, but official crossings remain lax.
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BRUSSELS -- Nearly 2,000 NATO troops, including two &quot;rapid response&quot; battalions from Spain and Italy, began arriving in Afghanistan this week to strengthen the international military presence there in time for the Oct. 9 presidential election, NATO officials said.
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The European Union began its biggest-ever military operation Thursday, formally taking over NATO&#39;s peacekeeping mission in Bosnia with 7,000 troops.
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U.N. police pulled out of a Kosovan  border post that was destroyed on Tuesday by Serbs who vow  never to submit to the authority of Kosovo's Albanian  government and its Western backers.
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NATO thwarted overnight a bid by  Kosovo Serbs to assert their authority in a northern slice of  the newly independent republic, restoring control on the border  with Serbia where crowds had burnt down two crossing points.
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Poland&#39;s 1,200 troops assigned to NATO forces in Afghanistan will not achieve full combat readiness for up to several weeks due to stolen vehicle keys, the defence ministry said on Thursday.
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NATO and Pakistan agreed on Tuesday  that three million Afghan refugees in Pakistan posed a security  threat and needed to be repatriated.
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An Iranian arms shipment destined for the Taliban was intercepted on Sept. 6 by the international force in Afghanistan in what appears to be an escalating flow of weaponry between the two former enemies, according to officials from countries in the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force.
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The European Union began its biggest-ever military operation Thursday, formally taking over NATO's peacekeeping mission in Bosnia with 7,000 troops.
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A smattering of Hamas-affiliated security forces, many of them bearded and dressed in blue camouflage uniforms, fanned out on both sides of the breached Gaza-Egypt border Sunday to jointly police the crossing with Egyptian guards.
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NATO battled Taliban holdouts in the   deserts of southern Afghanistan on Saturday amid a security   crackdown in the capital after at least 16 people were killed   by a suicide bomber.
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NATO peacekeepers once patrolled this Bosnian Serb rebel stronghold in armored personnel carriers, but the town is now so calm an EU force taking over on Thursday could monitor it from the bar.