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NATO Rapid Reaction Force: Response to Russian military aggression in Ukraine – Video

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NATO Rapid Reaction Force: Response to Russian military aggression in Ukraine
NATO has held drills to test out its new rapid reaction force - the detachment which was created last year in response to Russian military aggression in Ukraine. Soldiers from 11 nations gathered...

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NATO Reconnaissance Flights: AWAC aircraft monitor Turkey, Eastern Europe amid tension with Russia – Video

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NATO Reconnaissance Flights: AWAC aircraft monitor Turkey, Eastern Europe amid tension with Russia
NATO #39;s Airborne Warning and Control System radar aircraft continued routine flights over eastern Europe and Turkey in an effort participants said was to reassure allies. Check out our website:...

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NATO downsizing Russian delegation, says it's a "practical measure" not aimed at Moscow

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BRUSSELS NATO is downsizing the Russian delegation to the U.S.-led defense alliance, cutting the maximum staff allowed to 30.

NATO deputy spokeswoman Carmen Romero said Friday the new ceiling on personnel from NATO partner countries applies to all 41 nations concerned.

However, Russia is believed to be the only nation whose delegation, now around 50, tops that limit.

Romero said the new staff limits, to go into effect over the next nine months, are a "practical measure" not aimed at Russia, whose relations with NATO have deteriorated since the Kremlin's 2014 annexation of Crimea. She said Russia's ambassador and three other delegation members will continue to enjoy unescorted access to NATO premises.

In 2009, NATO expelled two Russian diplomats from its Brussels headquarters over accusations of espionage.

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NATO conducts 1st drill to test new rapid response force created to face Russian challenges

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Czech Republic's soldiers from the 43rd airborne battalion take part in the NATO drill "The Noble Jump" at the airport in Chrudim, Czech Republic, Thursday, April 9, 2015. NATO is completing an initial exercise and first testing of its new rapid response force that has been created to face new challenges from Russia. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)(The Associated Press)

Czech Republic's soldiers from the 43rd airborne battalion take part in the NATO drill "The Noble Jump" at the airport in Pardubice, Czech Republic, Thursday, April 9, 2015. NATO is completing an initial exercise and first testing of its new rapid response force that has been created to face new challenges from Russia. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)(The Associated Press)

Czech Republic's soldiers from the 43rd airborne battalion line up to board an aircraft during the NATO drill "The Noble Jump" at the airport in Pardubice, Czech Republic, Thursday, April 9, 2015. NATO is completing an initial exercise and first testing of its new rapid response force that has been created to face new challenges from Russia. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)(The Associated Press)

CHRUDIM, Czech Republic NATO is completing a first testing of its new force created to face new challenges from Russia.

Some 150 soldiers from the Czech army's 43rd airborne battalion have been training to be ready for deployment within 48 hours "as NATO reevaluates the risks," Maj. Gen. Jiri Baloun said Thursday. The previous NATO standard times for that were between 10 and 80 days, Baloun said.

In the Netherlands, 900 German and 200 Dutch soldiers have been doing the same. The units will be moved for further trials to Poland in June while some 25,000 NATO troops will complete the exercise of the new force in Italy, Portugal and Spain in October and November.

The units belong to NATO's new Very High Readiness Joint Task Force.

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US soldier killing in Afghanistan: Inside attack on NATO forces kills American soldier – Video

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US soldier killing in Afghanistan: Inside attack on NATO forces kills American soldier
A U.S. soldier and an Afghan soldier died during a firefight in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, according to an Afghan military official. A group of U.S. army soldiers was leaving a provincial...

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NATO soldier killed in firefight between US, Afghan forces

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Jalalabad (Afghanistan) (AFP) - An American soldier was killed Wednesday in a firefight between US and Afghan troops in eastern Afghanistan, the first apparent insider attack since Washington announced a delay in troop withdrawals from the country.

So-called "green-on-blue" attacks -- when Afghan soldiers or police turn their guns on international troops -- have been a major problem during NATO's long years fighting alongside Afghan forces.

Wednesday's attack marked the second such fatal incident since the start of the year, highlighting long-simmering tensions between Afghan and foreign forces.

The gunfight erupted after an Afghan soldier opened fire on an American delegation outside the governor's compound in Jalalabad, the capital of the militant-infested province of Nangarhar.

"US soldiers returned fire, killing the shooter and wounding two other members of the Afghan National Army. We are investigating to find out the motive behind the shooting," Nangarhar police chief Fazel Ahmad Shirzad told AFP.

An American soldier, who was part of a unit devoted to training and advising Afghan forces, was also killed, US officials told AFP.

The "incident in Jalalabad today resulted in the death of one Resolute Support service member", said a brief statement from Resolute Support, the new name for the NATO mission in Afghanistan.

Monica Cummings, the US embassy spokeswoman, said the incident occurred after a senior US official held a meeting with the provincial governor in Jalalabad.

"All Chief of Mission personnel of the visiting party are accounted for," she added in a statement, without offering any more details.

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US soldier killed in firefight between NATO and Afghan troops, sources say (+video)

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Jalalabad, Afghanistan An American soldier and an Afghan soldier were killed when a firefight broke out between Afghan and NATO coalition forces at a compound where a senior US diplomat met a provincial governor in eastern Afghanistan, police and US sources said.

A handful of others from both sides were wounded in the shooting, which erupted shortly after the diplomat left the compound aboard a helicopter, according to US and Afghan sources.

The NATO soldiers involved in the incident were American, according to Afghan police, and had been leaving the venue to return to Camp Gamberi in east Afghanistan where they were stationed.

NATO issued a statement saying one of its soldiers had been killed, without divulging the nationality, though a US source told Reuters that the dead soldier was American and two Americans had been wounded in the clash.

Two Afghan soldiers were also injured in the shoot out and it was unclear who had fired first, police said, adding that an Afghan soldier was being questioned. They had no other details on the American casualties.

The US embassy in Kabul issued a statement on the incident without referring to casualties.

"We are aware that there was an exchange of gunfire involving Resolute Support service members... All Chief of Mission personnel of the visiting party are accounted for," the US embassy said.

The frequency of "insider attacks" in Afghanistan has fallen sharply this year as most foreign forces withdrew from the country in 2014.

A small contingent of around 12,000 NATO troops remains in Afghanistan to train Afghan forces after the combat mission officially ended last year.

Wednesday's incident was the first since January, when three US military contractors were killed by an Afghan soldier in the capital Kabul.

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