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Just a few days before Ronnie O’Sullivan cued his way to a fifth World Championship; against the odds, an Afghan player lifted the Asian Championship trophy – it was his and Afghanistan’s first major snooker success. NATO TV talks to Saleh Mohammad, Afghan snooker player and recent winner of the Asian Championship. Despite a lack of funding, Saleh has competed against (and often beaten) some of th...

Drug addiction continues to be a problem in Afghanistan along with the escalating cultivation and production of opiates in the country. Now ministries are tackling the problem of addiction head on, by rounding up addicts and encouraging them into rehabilitation. Teaser: Ministries in Kabul try to tackle the growth and production of opiates in Afghanistan, as well as the addicted people who use the...

We illustrate the importance of implementing UN Security Council Resolution 1325 and related resolutions on Women, Peace & Security in Bosnia and Herzegovina. During the Bosnian War, sexual violence was used as a weapon of war. We talk to Vanja Matic, who works for NATO HQ Sarajevo, helping to promote gender awareness within the Bosnian army and within Bosnian society at large. We also interview M...

At an IT Security Conference in Amsterdam, hackers and IT security professionals talk to NATO Channel about how best to defend against cyber threats. The experts believe in keeping knowledge free and in defending networks through collaboration with all stakeholders - public, private, government, non-government and the military.

Standing tall for over 800 years, the Minaret of Jam is one of Afghanistan’s most ancient archaeological treasures. Hidden among the mountains of Ghor Province in central Afghanistan, it is virtually inaccessible. The NATO Channel braves 100 kilometres of dusty, dangerous, desert highway to reach this iconic monument. Also available in high definition.

Back in 2010, Sergeant Gates arrived in Afghanistan for the first time. His company, tasked to push deep into enemy territory were getting hit daily and getting into constant firefights. This time around his mission is very different. Working alongside Afghan security forces, Gates says he has noticed a “massive change” in their capability and attitude, and are actually “taking care of their own.”...

Aviation in Afghanistan has undergone huge transformation over the past decade. With several new airports under development and new Afghan airline companies opening more and more routes, air travel is connecting the country to itself and the rest of the world. Also available in high definition

Georgia provides the biggest non-NATO contribution to ISAF forces in Afghanistan. Soldiers provide assistance to the mission by conducting patrols, bomb clearance and engaging with locals in the volatile district of Musa Qala in Helmand Province. Includes sound bites from Captain Jemal Tsitadze, Chief of Staff, 12th Battalion, 1st Infantry, Georgian Armed Forces and Captain Nate Warthen, Officer i...

Over 9000 spectators poured through the gates of the Kabul National Cricket Stadium to watch their heroes battle it out wicket by wicket at the largest national tournament Afghanistan has seen. Members of the national team captained five regional teams in a tense play-off over six days. The excitable crowd came to Kabul from all over the country, defying ethnic and tribal differences in a united f...

Supplying drinking water is a major issue during a military operation. Drawing and treating the water require a considerable logistic effort. The nations do their best to pool their skills. During Exercise Capable Logistician at Lest in Slovakia, NATO member and partner nations tested their skills in providing drinking water. This version includes voiceover and graphics.

Risking (and not entirely avoiding) a million little stings – NATO Channel heads into the Afghan countryside to meet the bee-keepers who are doing more for Afghan agriculture than simply producing honey. Honey, wax, fruit pollination and venom - the benefits to beekeeping in Afghanistan are wide and varied. In some of the southern provinces, national and international bee-keeping initiatives are e...

Afghans across the country gather at registration centers, collecting their voter cards in order to have their say in the next presidential elections coming in April 2014. Soundbites from Gul Habib, Samim, Sukriya Barekzai. Produced by Sayed Mansoor.

The Afghan postal service was established in 1870 and, had developed, by 1970, into a modern service that allowed Afghans to send letters around the world. But years of war, followed by the Taliban regime, have set the postal service back in time. A building boom since 2001 across the country has added to the service’s problems. In Kabul, the city’s population has grown in size by nearly five time...

Afghanistan’s Dog’s of war are coming home with the help of a former British Royal Marine. A veteran of Helmand province in 2006, Pen Farthing has since returned to Afghanistan on his own animal rescue. Produced by Joe Sheffer.

Monsoon rains have swept away a bridge near the mountainous Khost-Gardez pass in Paktia province, Afghanistan. The road has also been badly damaged, leaving the Salerno bowl and both Afghan and ISAF bases cut off. Redeployment activities from Forward Operating Base Salerno have already been disrupted and local people are struggling to cross the riverbed. A team of combat engineers from Kandahar ar...

On 20 August 2013, history was made as the national football teams of Afghanistan and Pakistan played a friendly match in Kabul at the Afghan Football Federation (AFF) stadium, just two days prior to the start of the Roshan Afghan Premier League's (RAPL) 2013 tournament. The last match between the two nations was 37 years ago. Also available in high definition

Show Danish and German Forward Air Controllers being trained by Belgian and British officers during a large multinational NATO exercise in the Czech Republic (Ramstein Rover 2013). Highlights the challenges of counter-insurgency operations in urban areas featuring a realistic training scenario. Also available in high definition.

It’s been eight years since Lithuania first sent troops to Ghor Province in central Afghanistan. Their mission now complete, they’re soon to return to Lithuania. Apart from improving combat capability, Lithuanian funded projects have also developed the area and helped the local people. This is their story. As Lithuania prepares to withdraw from Afghanistan after eight years in the country, NATO TV...

Imagine seeing a suspected suicide bomb car approaching. What are your options? Signal, shoot, flee? Now there’s a new option. A technology is being tested at a secret location in Norway that can make a car’s engine cut out using high-intensity jammers. Better still, it can also take out drones, jet skis, and any other vehicle used to deliver bombs. And it has also positively tested disrupting rem...

The NATO-led combat mission in Afghanistan will end in 2014. Nations have started the redeployment of their equipment. The British Army started the redeployment process in October 2012. Expensive and sensitive pieces of equipment, such as helicopters and vehicles, are sent by air to an air base in the United Arab Emirates and then shipped by sea to the military port of Marchwood in Southampton. Th...

Forward Air Controllers are responsible for guiding pilots onto ground targets. NATO’s mission in Afghanistan has shown the importance of allies being able to provide Close Air Support for each other safely and reliably. Maintaining this capability through multi-national training is a key priority for the Alliance. Also available in high definition

In Helmand Province, Afghanistan, police have taken a significant step towards regional autonomy by unveiling a police training facility. The Lashkar Gah Training Centre (LTC), opened by the British in 2009, will now see Afghan police trainers teach a variety of courses as they look to take on one of the biggest challenges in Afghanistan – policing Helmand. Also available in high definition

As Afghan pilot instructors graduate from Shindand air base in western Afghanistan and Afghan-only flight crews embark on active missions across the nation, the Afghan air force is once again developing into an important part of the Afghan security forces. In the early 1980s Afghanistan had a strong and capable air force. But in the civil war all that changed. Today, Afghanistan’s air force is sti...

Over the past 12 years, Kabul’s fire department has grown from just two operating fire engines to a fully functional fire service. Between March and July there were 56 fires in Kabul alone. These are some of the men who put them out. Also available in high definition.

The Applied Physics Science and Technology Centre (APSTEC) in St. Petersburg, Russia has been working with NATO to develop a technology to detect explosives concealed on suicide bombers in mass transport locations. Eighteen scientists and engineers are working on this project for the “Stand-Off Detection of Explosives”, known as STANDEX. This version includes graphics and voiceover.