The spokesman's perspective:

Continuing our new series of video commentary, NATO Spokesman James Appathurai gives his personal perspective on recent articles discussing NATO. He invites you to write in with your own comments and opinions, which could be featured in the next installment.

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Military authorities charged six Polish soldiers with murdering civilians in Afghanistan during an August incident involving Polish troops from a NATO-led security force.

Canadian Gen. Ray Henault, NATO's top soldier, says recent efforts to overcome shortfalls in the alliance's force in Afghanistan have made only limited progress, holding back efforts to improve security in the country.

NATO's shortage of police and military trainers in Afghanistan is slowing efforts to build security forces capable of combating the nation's resurgent Taliban militants in Afghanistan.

Forces from the 26-member North Atlantic Treaty Organization - or NATO - are encountering stiff resistance from Taliban insurgents in southern Afghanistan.

The United Nations is calling on NATO to do more to stop the Afghan opium trade after a new survey showed how the drug dominates Afghanistan's economy.

Setting up separate NATO-run jails to hold battlefield detainees who might otherwise be tortured is out of the question, the alliance's military chief says.

Two NATO soldiers and their interpreter were killed when their vehicle was blown up in Afghanistan Saturday while officials reported that 33 Taliban-linked rebels died in new operations.

A suicide bomber driving an explosive-laden car targeted a convoy of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan's restive Helmand province Sunday, killing himself and damaging a military vehicle, police said.

The head of the United Nations Offices on Drug and Crime, Antonio Maria Costa urged the US-led NATO forces to help destroy drug trade in Afghanistan, which would cut off the Talibans main funding source.