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Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, right, and Afghan President Hamid Karzai walk together during an official reception for Karzai in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Thursday, March 6, 2014. Karzai is on a three-day official visit to Sri Lanka. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

NATO airstrike kills 5 Afghan soldiers

By RAHIM FAIEZ and KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

A Russian soldier guards a pier where two Ukrainian naval vessels are moored, in Sevastopol, Ukraine, on Wednesday, March 5, 2014. Ukraine's new prime minister said Wednesday that embattled Crimea must remain part of Ukraine, but may be granted more local powers. Since last weekend, Russian troops have taken control of much of the peninsula in the Black Sea, where Russian speakers are in the majority. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

White House to Putin: Allow international monitors in Crimea

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

From left, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, French President Francois Hollande, Italian Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, talk together during a break of a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Wednesday, March 5, 2014. Top diplomats from the West and Russia trying to find an end to the crisis in Ukraine are gathering in Paris on Wednesday as tensions simmered over the Russian military takeover of the strategic Crimean Peninsula. (AP Photo/Alain Jocard, Pool)

Russia, West try to hammer out Ukraine diplomacy

By LARA JAKES and MARIA DANILOVA - Associated Press

A Russian convoy moves from Sevastopol to Sinferopol in the Crimea, Ukraine, Sunday, March 2, 2014. A convoy of hundreds of Russian troops headed toward the regional capital of Ukraine's Crimea region on Sunday, a day after Russia's forces took over the strategic Black Sea peninsula without firing a shot. The new government in Kiev has been powerless to react. Ukraine's parliament was meeting Sunday in a closed session. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

World scrambles as Russia tightens grip on Crimea

By TIM SULLIVAN and DAVID McHUGH - Associated Press

Pakistan political party ends NATO supply blockade

By RIAZ KHAN - Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel addresses the media after a meeting of NATO defense ministers at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2014. NATO defense ministers, in a second day of meetings, discussed the situation in Ukraine and Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

Hagel urges Russia to act cautiously on Ukraine

By ROBERT BURNS and JOHN-THOR DAHLBURG - Associated Press

From left, defense ministers, Albania's Mimi Kodheli, Netherland's Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, Germany's Ursula von der Leyen, Norway's Ine Marie Eriksen Soreide and Italy's Roberta Pinotti pose for photographers prior to the start of a meeting of defense ministers of the North Atlantic Council at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014. Frustrated with his Afghan counterpart, U.S. President Barack Obama is ordering the Pentagon to accelerate planning for a full U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan by the end of this year. But Obama is also holding out hope that Afghanistan's next president may eventually sign a stalled security agreement that could prevent the U.S. from having to take that step. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

For NATO, a first: 5 female defense ministers

By JOHN-THOR DAHLBURG - Associated Press

Georgia’s P.M. Irakli Garibashvili eyes NATO membership, while keeping Russia at bay

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, center, arrives for a meeting of defense ministers of the North Atlantic Council at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014. Frustrated with his Afghan counterpart, U.S. President Barack Obama is ordering the Pentagon to accelerate planning for a full U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan by the end of this year. But Obama is also holding out hope that Afghanistan's next president may eventually sign a stalled security agreement that could prevent the U.S. from having to take that step. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Pentagon budget cuts won’t bode well for NATO

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, center, arrives for a meeting of defense ministers of the North Atlantic Council at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014. Frustrated with his Afghan counterpart, U.S. President Barack Obama is ordering the Pentagon to accelerate planning for a full U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan by the end of this year. But Obama is also holding out hope that Afghanistan's next president may eventually sign a stalled security agreement that could prevent the U.S. from having to take that step. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Hagel says Europeans should step up NATO support

By ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen speaks during media conference, prior to a meeting of defense ministers of the North Atlantic Council, at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014. Frustrated with his Afghan counterpart, U.S. President Barack Obama is ordering the Pentagon to accelerate planning for a full U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan by the end of this year. But Obama is also holding out hope that Afghanistan's next president may eventually sign a stalled security agreement that could prevent the U.S. from having to take that step. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

NATO head: No Afghan deal means no troops past ‘14

By JOHN-THOR DAHLBURG - Associated Press

FILE - This Jan. 11, 2013 file photo shows President Barack Obama listening as Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks during a news conference in the East Room at the White House in Washington. President Barack Obama has ordered the Pentagon to plan for a full American withdrawal from Afghanistan by the end of this year should the Afghan government refuse to sign a security agreement with the US the White House said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

US general: Grim Afghan future if no security pact

By LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press

FILE - This Dec. 8, 2013 file-pool photo shows a solider standing guard near a military aircraft in Kandahar, Afghanistan. A new assessment of Afghanistan’s future says the country could once again become a terrorist haven unless U.S. and international partners underwrite a much larger Afghan security force than is currently planned beyond 2014. (AP Photo/Mark Wilson, File-Pool)

New study casts doubt on West’s Afghan plan

By ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

** FILE ** Secretary of State John Kerry gestures during a speech on climate change on Sunday, Feb. 16, 2014, in Jakarta. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci, Pool)

Lawmakers want Kerry to take a stand on Georgia’s NATO membership

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Chicago jury acquits 3 NATO summit protesters of terrorism, convicts of lesser arson counts

Associated Press

FILE - This combo made of undated file photos provided by the Chicago Police Department shows from left, Brent Vincent Betterly, of Oakland Park, Fla., Jared Chase, of Keene, N.H., and Brian Church, of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. On Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014, closing are scheduled at Cook County Circuit Court in Chicago for the three men who are charged under Illinois terrorism statutes with plotting Molotov cocktail attacks during the 2012 NATO summit in Chicago. (AP Photo/Chicago Police Department, File)

NATO trial asks question: Who’s a terrorist?

By MICHAEL TARM - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sunday, Oct. 6, 2013 file photo, former Foreign Minister Zalmai Rassoul waves at his supporters after registering his candidacy in the 2014 presidential election in Kabul, Afghanistan. A former foreign minister, Rassoul has been national security adviser to the government and is seen as close to Karzai. He could end up being a consensus candidate among many political factions. A Pashtun like Karzai, he has a medical degree and is fluent in five languages, including French, English and Italian. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

Afghanistan’s presidential campaign to begin

By CASSANDRA VINOGRAD - Associated Press

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin speaks during an interview with Germany's ARD television in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia, Friday, Aug. 29, 2008. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Friday that Russia will not be isolated over its conduct in Georgia and warned the Europe not to "serve" the United States. He also stressed Russia does not fear any Western sanctions, saying that if forced to choose between life and sausage, "we choose life." (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, Pool)

Russia slams West’s support for Ukraine opposition

Associated Press

NATO secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, left, and European Council President Herman Van Rompuy chat during the 50th Security Conference in Munich, Germany, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2014. A three-day security meeting continues. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

NATO leaders say Afghan troops need more training

By DAVID RISING - Associated Press

Illiteracy plagues Afghan forces despite $200M Uncle Sam tutoring program

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times