Category: NATOSource

Talks on Iraq NATO mission stall over immunity

By Rebecca Santana and Slobodan Lekic, the AP

From Rebecca Santana and Slobodan Lekic, the AP:  The issue of legal immunity for foreign troops in Iraq, which already torpedoed plans to keep a U.S. military presence in the country, has emerged as a key stumbling block in talks over the extension of a NATO training mission here.

Russia may drop NATO summit over missile defense

By Russia Today

Can NATO Adapt to Cyber Warfare?

By Robin Tim Weis, FrumForum

From Robin Tim Weis, FrumForum:  What is the likelihood that NATO would invoke Article Five–NATO’s collective defense clause–in response to a cyber attack? The possibility first entered media discourse back in October 2010 when the German Süddeutsche Zeitung reported on an internal memo in which NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen discussed the use of Article […]

Russia threatens to cut off NATO supply routes

By Joshua Kucera, the Bug Pit

From Joshua Kucera, the Bug Pit:  Russia has threatened to cut off NATO supply routes to Afghanistan if the alliance doesn’t compromise on its missile defense plans, Moscow’s NATO envoy, Dmitry Rogozin, has said.

Russian aircraft carrier may not reach Syria until 2012

By Andy Young, Siberian Light

From Andy Young, Siberian Light:  The Russian Navy has confirmed that its aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov, will visit the Syrian port of Tartus, where Russia has its only Mediterranean naval base.

Russia sending aircraft carrier to its base in Syria

By Thomas Grove, Reuters

Russia’s NATO envoy to visit China, Iran over missile defense

By RIA Novosti

2 NATO peacekeepers wounded in Kosovo

By Zvezdan Djukanovic, the AP

From Zvezdan Djukanovic, the AP:  A German NATO officer and a soldier were shot and wounded in a clash with Serb protesters in northern Kosovo on Monday after the military alliance’s troops used heavy machinery to remove trucks and buses blocking a main road in the tense region, an official said.