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A series of air, land and maritime exercises are taking place this fall to prepare next year’s NATO Response Force. During the air exercise Brilliant Arrow in Norway, 800 personnel from nine air forces trained to NATO standards putting their interoperability to the test. Includes rare flight footage of fighter jets and helicopters, as well as sound bites with Exercise Director from NATO’s Single A...

The Peace Music Festival took place in Kabul, as musicians from Afghanistan, India and Pakistan came to the famous Babur Gardens to play for a large crowd, while many more watched on television across the country. In a week that also saw another suicide attack on Kabul, the concert's message was clear; Afghans want peace. Also available in high definition

In 2006, the NATO-Russia Council nations launched a counter-narcotics training project. The aim: to improve the skills of counter-narcotics officers from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Central Asia. In September 2013, the North-West Institute of Advanced Studies of the Russian Federal Drug Control Service in St Petersburg hosted some 20 Afghan police officers. Also available in high definition

At a ceremony in Uruzgan Province in Afghanistan, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott and leader of the opposition Bill Shorten announced the closure of the Australian-led provincial reconstruction team or PRT in Uruzgan, marking an important milestone in the Australian mission in Afghanistan. This version includes graphics and voiceover.

Last June, the stand-off detection of explosives (STANDEX) project, which is being developed in the NATO-Russia cooperation framework, was tested in the underground railway of a European capital. This innovative system combines three different detection technologies into a data merging and tracking system, and may help NATO countries and Russia to counter terrorist attacks more effectively. This v...

NATO ships sail from the port of Gdynia in Poland to take part in the week long exercise “Steadfast Jazz”. Includes interviews with Dutch, Italian and Polish naval officers and file footage from the pre-runner exercises “Brilliant Arrow” in Norway and “Brilliant Mariner” in Italy. Interviewees: Lt. Col. Harold Liebregs, Commanding Officer of HNLMS De Ruyter; Col. Fabio Agostini, Commanding Officer...

Next year, the command of the NATO Response Force will pass to Allied Joint Force Command, which is based in Brunssum in the Netherlands. We learn how its staff are being put to the test during Exercise Steadfast Jazz 2013. They need to demonstrate that they are able to run joint operations involving land, sea and air forces in response to the full range of crisis situations. This version includes...

Teenage girls in Afghanistan are often caught between two conflicting worlds; tradition and modernity, but after the recent successes of the Afghan national football team on the world stage, a new generation of teenage girls in Kabul is kicking against old traditions and taboos and paving the way for the future.

Shows highlights from SFJ13 Media day, including live fire demonstration in Poland, and NATO Secretary General meeting troops. Includes soundbite with NATO Secretary General and Commander JFC Brunssum, General Hans-Lothar Domröse. This version includes graphics and voiceover.

In Afghanistan mines are quite literally everywhere. Along with other explosive remnants of war or ERWs, they are responsible for the serious injury or death of more than thirty Afghan civilians every month. NATO TV ventures to Parwan province in central Afghanistan to meet the men whose job it is to unearth and destroy an enemy that lives beneath the ground. Teaser: In Afghanistan, mines are a pl...

Mazar-e Sharif in Regional Command North (ISAF). Germany has been lead nation in RC-North since 2003. NATO Channel interviews the Commander of RC-North, Major General Jörg Vollmer. He gives his views on progress in this region, since his first deployment back in 2009. Teaser: The German commander of NATO-led forces in the north of Afghanistan, Major General Jörg Vollmer, gives his views on progres...

Afghan medics are now treating their injured soldiers and police in a newly built trauma center, a first for the country, based in Helmand in the country’s south. In the past, any Afghan security forces wounded on the battlefield were taken to ISAF’s hospital at Camp Bastion but now, local medics at the field hospital for the 215 Corps, are treating their own.

It’s been five years since Poland first sent troops to Ghazni. Here the 10th Armoured Cavalry Brigade take over from the 25th Air Cavalry Brigade in the same week as the Polish side of the joint Provincial Reconstruction Team closes. Apart from improving combat capability and instilling confidence in the Afghan National Security Forces, Polish-funded projects have also developed areas of the provi...

Two and a half thousand Afghan leaders gathered in Kabul, to discuss the country’s pending Bilateral Security Agreement with the United States, which will be the basis for a US presence in-country post-2014 and pave the way for the planned NATO train, advise and assist mission due to start in 2015.

NATO’s ARRCADE Fusion 13 exercise brought together 2,500 military and civilian personnel from 16 NATO and partner nations. This report shows how the UK-based Allied Rapid Reaction Corps trains and develops its ability to command the NATO Response Force by simulating a large-scale deployment from a temporary command and control centre in Cornwall, England.

War and art have been interlinked since the dawn of time, and the war in Afghanistan is no different. War artist Anna Redwood visits the 7th Armored Brigade, also known as ‘The Desert Rats’ in Camp Bastion; her mission, along with metalsmiths from the Royal Electrical Mechanical Engineers (REME), is to build a giant ten-foot rat out of old armored vehicle parts.

Bags of ammonium nitrate, explosive remnants of war, modern improvised explosive devices (IEDs). Unexploded ordnance is still a huge problem in Afghanistan and the largest cause of civilian casualties. With counter-IED now an integral part of the NATO training mission in Afghanistan, the battle against explosives remains a top priority for both the international community and the Afghan forces. Al...

In the last presidential elections, women voters and MPs faced persecution, death threats and violence. With 2014’s elections drawing near, NATO Channel speaks to female MPs who discuss the real issues facing female voters. With 2014’s elections drawing near, NATO Channel looks at the problems many Afghan women are still facing and what measures are being implemented to ensure free and fair electi...

In November 2013, fourteen selected Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) operators, commanders and staff officers from the Iraqi Armed Forces started a series of basic and specialised “Train the Trainers” course to learn new techniques to counter the threat of improvised explosive devices. The aim of the course was to teach the Iraqi experts to recognize, visually identify and defeat improvised explo...

In 2001, after the fall of the Taliban, there was little in the way of a functional police force in Afghanistan. Instead armed militias carried out their own brand of justice. Now, police figures have surpassed 150,000, and building, training and improving the Afghan National Police or ANP is a priority. Produced by Jake Tupman.

After three decades of conflict, many young Afghans have only ever known war. But for the first time since its inception, The Afghan National Army has recruited a new breed of soldiers for a year of rigorous training at the new Afghan National Army Officer Academy modeled on the British Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. NATO TV meets three of tomorrow’s leaders and finds out what motivates them to...

NATO Channel visits the surgery of Dr Mohammad Shirzad who is a doctor offering alternative treatment for skin diseases like vitiligo and epilepsy in Parwan, Afghanistan. The doctor who claims thousands of satisfied patients, uses the venom which he extracts from scorpions and snakes in his medicines. The doctor and his family have been working as alternative medical practitioners for over 215 yea...

Package about handing over security for religious heritage sites in Kosovo. Produced by Mike Muhlberger.

In Afghanistan eleven candidates are vying to win the next Presidency. Campaigning is now officially underway with posters and billboards up all around the country. The candidates have two months to win over the voters. Six thousand eight hundred polling booths are expected to open. Election day is April 5 April. Also available in high definition

A profile of the CEO and founder of one of the biggest construction companies in Afghanistan, Ishaq Sadat. Insights into the Afghan construction industry, in particular his company’s work on fire stations and ANA/ANP bases. His thoughts on the future of the Afghan economy. Teaser: An Afghan refugee who drove taxis to support his family, Ishaq Sadat returned to Afghanistan after the fall of the Tal...