Photo Gallery NATO Turns 60
American troops in Afghanistan: NATO is facing huge challenges in Afghanistan and elsewhere as it celebrates its 60th birthday.
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A Canadian troop enters an armored vehicle during a patrol in Kandahar province, Afghanistan. More than 1,000 Western soldiers have already lost their lives in Afghanistan, including 152 Britons, 116 Canadians and 30 Germans.
US Vice President Joe Biden (center) speaks at a NATO meeting in Brussels on March 10, next to Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer (right).
The alliance was established on April 4, 1949 with a ceremony held in Washington D.C.
The men who brought down the Berlin Wall: Former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev are seen in this 1990 photo.
German soldiers in uniform take part in an anti-nuclear demonstration in West Germany in 1983. The NATO Double-Track Decision prompted hundreds of thousands of people in the peace movement to take to the streets.
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