NATO

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• LI home to a dozen U.S. Army generals

  Tovo, Smithtown East '79, had just met with Army helicopter instructors at an installation near Kabul . Tovo is commanding a joint NATO force responsible for training Afghan soldiers so that U.S. troops can withdraw from Afghanistan after more than a decade   Read more »

• NATO: 5 Americans killed in Afghanistan

  Five U.S. service members were killed on Saturday by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan, the latest deadly attack against international troops since the Taliban announced the start of their spring offensive this week.The coalition did not disclose the   Read more »

• NATO: 5 troops killed in southern Afghanistan

  by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan -- the first foreign troops killed this month around the country.In a statement, NATO said the five were killed on Saturday. It provided no other details, or the nationalities of those killed.Such information is usually   Read more »

• US has a range of military options in Syria

  as 300 mobile surface to air missile systems and defense systems, and more than 600 static missile launchers and sites.Some senators have also pressed for the U.S. to set up a narrow, so-called safe zone inside Syria, along its border with Turkey where citizens   Read more »

• Joint chiefs chairman in Afghanistan for talks

  an overnight flight, said that assessment will inform U.S. decisions about how many American troops should remain after the U.S. and NATO combat role ends in December 2014.The U.S. is expected to keep between 9,000 and 10,000 in a residual force, but no final   Read more »

Around the web

• Extra police in London after terror death

  their actions in an Islamist tirade to passers-by. The victim, who has a two-year-old son Jake, was a machine gunner who served with NATO-led forces in Afghanistan in 2009, the defence ministry said. The Sun newspaper on Friday reported that the victim's girlfriend 3:24 AM from Herald Sun Read more »

• Metra reassigns official who oversaw agency's NATO security, police force

  Although she had no law enforcement background, she was in charge of coordinating Metra's security procedures during the May 2012 NATO summit at McCormick Place. Metra was "very pleased with how she handled the NATO summit," Metra spokesman Michael Gillis 2:06 AM from Chicago Tribune Read more »

• Talking Turkey about Obama

  Prime Minister Erdogan to the White House last week with warmth appropriate for the leader of a strategically located ally which is NATO's only Muslim member, enjoys a booming economy, and holds elections which appear democratic. But Turkey brings to this 2:01 AM from American Thinker Read more »

• Obama picks Victoria Nuland for assistant state secretary, Douglas Lute for NATO

  he plans to nominate Victoria Nuland as assistant secretary of state for Europe and retired Gen. Douglas E. Lute as ambassador to NATO. Nuland, the former State Department spokeswoman, has been accused by Republicans of helping mislead Congress and the public 5/23/13 from The Washington Post Read more »

• For India, worries of another 1989 moment in the region

  NATO troops solve the logistical challenges of a draw-down from Afghanistan, there is a sense of déjà vu among foreign policymakers in New Delhi. When the Soviet troops left Afghanistan in 1989, and US attention turned elsewhere, Pakistan used the militant 5/23/13 from Christian Science Monitor Read more »