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ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan may face probing questions about whether NATO member Turkey is tilting away from the West and toward Iran when he meets U.S. President Barack Obama next week.

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan may face probing questions about whether NATO member Turkey is tilting away from the West and toward Iran when he meets U.S. President Barack Obama next week.

International political and military officials agreed no exit strategy should be set for troops in Afghanistan, while the United States urged Iran to engage the West at a new security forum that wrapped up Sunday.

Top brass from Europe and the Americas, including US Defense Secretary Robert Gates, gather this week in Canada to discuss the future of NATO, the war in Afghanistan and other pressing security matters.

Hillary Clinton to lead US delegation to anniversary of Berlin Wall's fall, travel to Asia. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will lead a U.S. delegation to Germany for next week's 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the White House said Friday.

Eastern Europe, fawned over by Bush, complains of neglect by Obama administration. Czechs feel betrayed, Poles irked, Romanians slighted. Ask them who's to blame, and the answer may come as a surprise: President Barack Obama.

World honors 9/11 heroes but divided over faltering Afghan war effort as casualties rise. On the day to remember the terror of 9/11, the war it spawned in Afghanistan sowed fresh divisions. President Barack Obama, speaking under rainy skies after placing a wreath at the site of the attack on the Pentagon, called on the world to "renew our resolve against those who perpetrated this barbaric act and who plot against us still."

World honors 9/11 heroes but divided over faltering Afghan war effort as casualties rise. On the day to remember the terror of 9/11, the war it spawned in Afghanistan sowed fresh divisions.

Poll finds soaring European support for US policy under Obama compared with Bush. European support for the U.S. president's handling of foreign policy has soared since President Barack Obama took over from former President George W. Bush, but Europeans continue to view major issues including Afghanistan, Iran and global warming differently than Americans view them, a poll released Wednesday found.

European support for US foreign policy has quadrupled since President Barack Ama succeeded George W. Bush, even if transatlantic views differ on Afghanistan and Iran, a poll revealed Wednesday.

BERLIN (Reuters) - German politicians are drawing on the lessons of the U.S. presidential campaign by embracing the Internet and experimenting with townhall meetings, but what worked for Barack Obama seems to be backfiring here.

50 drug barons on US 'kill or capture' list of militants in Afghanistan. A U.S. military "kill or capture" list of 367 wanted insurgents in Afghanistan includes 50 major drug traffickers who give money to Taliban militants, U.S. military commanders told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

US President Barack Obama holds his first White House talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday, in the latest of a flurry of meetings between the leaders dogged by reports of disagreements.