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Wednesday, December 3, 2014 - 04:43
At the NATO Wales Summit in September 2014, Allied leaders approved a Readiness Action Plan to ensure the Alliance is ready to respond swiftly and firmly to new security challenges. The plan provides a comprehensive package of measures to respond to the changes in the security environment in and near Europe. It responds to the challenges posed by Russia. It also responds to threats emanating from the Middle East and North Africa.
Wednesday, December 3, 2014 - 04:41
NATO foreign ministers agreed on Tuesday to launch a new training mission for Afghanistan next year, replacing combat troops who pull out by the end of the year after 13 years of war.
Wednesday, December 3, 2014 - 04:37
Russia’s Ministry of Defense has unveiled plans to acquire more than 150 new aircraft and helicopters in 2015 as part of plans to bolster and modernize the country’s Air Force.
Wednesday, December 3, 2014 - 04:31
A new study by the antigraft group Transparency International (TI) suggests that corruption remains rampant across much of the former Soviet Union and the Balkans.
Wednesday, December 3, 2014 - 04:29
NATO will contribute to a planned Georgia-NATO training centre with embedded NATO trainers, secretary general of the alliance Jens Stoltenberg said following the meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels on December 2.
Tuesday, December 2, 2014 - 07:03
The first troops of a high-speed NATO reaction force designed to meet the sort of crisis highlighted by Russia’s Ukraine intervention should be ready early next year, officials said Monday.
Tuesday, December 2, 2014 - 07:02
India will fast-track the finalization of the US $12 billion plan to purchase 126 Dassault Rafale jets, according to a senior Indian Defense Ministry official, almost three years after India made Dassault its preferred bidder.
Tuesday, December 2, 2014 - 07:01
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan Abdulaziz Kamilov met on December 1 with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Nisha Biswal, reports the MFA press service.
Tuesday, December 2, 2014 - 06:59
Turkey is continuing to push the Obama administration to impose a no-fly zone or safe area along the Turkish-Syrian border, administration officials said Monday, but obstacles remain to the United States’ committing to what would be a significant increase in American military engagement in the area.
Tuesday, December 2, 2014 - 06:59
Three months after NATO agreed to set up a rapid-reaction force to ease its eastern allies’ fears about Russia, the task is providing an object lesson in the limitations of Europe’s military capabilities.