Nato News

Kabul - After a relatively calm start this year, which saw few NATO and US casualties, the Taliban have started their spring offensive, targeting NATO and Afghan Security Forces. The past week has been particularly bloody with a car bomb attack in Kabul.

As if the 80,000 dead in Syria are not the result of a war, Israel warns Russia that shipping missiles to Assad could result in war in the region. Meanwhile, Russia has sent at least 12 warships into the Mediterranean to protect its assets in Tartous.

Kabul - A suicide car bomb has killed 15, including six Americans, four of which were civilian contractors, along with two US soldiers. The attack occurred at 8 am local time, when the streets of Kabul are busy with morning commuters.

Kabul - A suicide car bomber struck a NATO convoy in the Afghan capitol of Kabul, killing 12 people, including 2 NATO troops, and 4 civilian contractors.

Washington - While the US media was engrossed in speculation and in some cases humanizing the Boston terror suspect, Afghanistan was front and center at NATO. A trilateral meeting among the US, Pakistan and Afghanistan was held on April 24 in Belgium.

The possibility of NATO and US intervention in Syria seems to have become more likely today, as a result of revelations by Israeli intelligence about the use of chemical weapons in Syria.

A NATO airstrike in Kunar province has left at least twelve dead, with ten of them being children, according to Afghan officials involved in the operation.

Kabul - As NATO prepares to leave Afghanistan, there is a flurry of activity, warnings and a visit by the US Chief of Joint Chiefs General Martin Dempsey to assess the type and level of training US forces could provide. It is make or break time for Afghan forces.

NATO launched an air strike on Saturday despite Afghan President Hamid Karzai having forbidden his troops to call in foreign air support.

Tallin - A study commissioned by NATO has found that the 2009 US-Israeli cyberattack on Iran's nuclear program was "an act of force" that was likely a violation of international law.