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Pakistan Cuts Key NATO Supply Route

(Sept. 30) -- Pakistan halted NATO deliveries along a key supply route into Afghanistan today, in apparent retaliation for a coalition helicopter strike hours earlier that killed three Pakistani soldiers at a border post. NATO and Pakistani officials gave differing accounts of the missile strike. Unidentified Pakistani...

Pentagon Bounces Rolling Stone Reporter: What Embed Ground Rules Actually Say

(Aug. 4) -- The pen is mighty, but the Pentagon has ways to keep it in check. So learned Rolling Stone writer Michael Hastings on Tuesday when the military announced it would not allow him to embed with the U.S. army in Afghanistan. The decision comes a month and a half after the release of his explosive article on Gen....

Missing US Sailor Found Dead in Afghanistan

(July 27) -- NATO has recovered the body of one of the two U.S. servicemen who disappeared in Afghanistan last week, the international force said today, and a search continues for his comrade who's believed to have been kidnapped by the Taliban. The grisly discovery comes as NATO is already mired in controversies over a...

Taliban Attack NATO Base in Eastern Afghanistan

(June 30) -- Taliban fighters set off a suicide car bomb and fired rocket-propelled grenades at the gate of a sprawling NATO air base in eastern Afghanistan this morning, and eight of them were killed after failing to breach security. Two NATO troops suffered minor injuries in a gun battle that lasted hours and disrupted...

Background on ISAF

The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) is a NATO-led security mission in Afghanistan established by the United Nations Security Council on 20 December 2001 by Resolution 1386 as envisaged by the Bonn Agreement.

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