PRAGUE, Czech Republic, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- NATO still believes a proposed Eastern European missile defense shield is an important project worth pursuing, an alliance official says.

BUDAPEST, Hungary, Oct. 10 (UPI) -- NATO says it will send troops to join attacks on the "rampant" Afghanistan opium drug trade.

BUDAPEST, Hungary, Oct. 9 (UPI) -- NATO's Standing Naval Maritime Group will travel to the piracy-plagued waters off the coast of Somalia, a spokesman for the defense alliance said Thursday.

BRUSSELS, June 25 (UPI) -- Kosovo's first phase of developing its own security force will be completed by 2009, NATO officials announced Wednesday.

BRUSSELS, April 30 (UPI) -- NATO repeated its warnings Wednesday to Russia against meddling in the affairs of Georgia as it deals with its two breakaway republics.

BUCHAREST, Romania, April 3 (UPI) -- NATO officials, meeting in Romania, offered membership to two Balkan states but rebuffed bids by two former Soviet states to begin the membership process.

BRUSSELS, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- NATO troops plan to react against any side that might use violence in a bid to resolve the future of Serbia's predominantly ethnic-Albanian Kosovo province.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Nov. 28 (UPI) -- The online video Web site, YouTube, has become the focus of NATO's anti-Taliban efforts in Afghanistan, a spokesman for the international group said.

BERLIN, June 4 (UPI) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin's threat to aim missiles at Europe are "unhelpful and unwelcome," a NATO spokesman said.