US wants NATO to take over Afghan security
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ISN SECURITY WATCH (13/10/04) - The US government is trying to convince its European partners to do more in Afghanistan and to put NATO in charge of overall responsibility for peacekeeping and reconstruction in the country.
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NATO troops assumed command Monday of military operations in volatile southern Afghanistan from the U.S.-led coalition, marking the first time the alliance has conducted land combat operations.
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PORTOROZ, Slovenia, Sept. 28 -- NATO agreed Thursday to take command of military operations across all of insurgency-hit Afghanistan next month after the United States pledged to transfer 12,000 American troops in the country to the NATO force.
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Europe needs convincing that Nato's Afghan mission is part of a wider war on terror, says the US defence secretary.
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SEVILLE, Spain  - The United States stepped up pressure on NATO allies on Thursday to send more troops to crush an expected Taliban offensive in the coming weeks.
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Germany wants the US to include its Nato allies in talks on a missile defence shield in Europe.
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NATO forces should be able to hand over responsibility to Afghanistan's security forces gradually in 2008, the alliance's secretary-general said on Tuesday.Comment
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NATO could order the start of military planning for a possible takeover of operations in Afghanistan from US forces as early as next year, the US ambassador to the alliance said.
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After launching wars in Afghanistan and Iraq while largely bypassing NATO, the Bush administration is now pressing for an expanded role for the alliance in both countries and signaling a new readiness to work more closely with its NATO allies.
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NATO assumed responsibility for security across the whole of insurgency-hit Afghanistan on Thursday when it took command in the east of the country from a U.S.-led coalition force.
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The United States is urging NATO allies to lift restrictions on the use of their forces in Afghanistan, casting it as matter of allied solidarity, a senior State Department official said.
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Robert Gates, US defence secretary, on Sunday emphasised the direct threat posed to European security by extremists in and around Afghanistan in a speech reflecting growing American concerns that weak public support in Europe risked undermining Nato's mission in the country.
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Almost three years to the day after it took command of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), NATO takes charge of security operations from the US-led coalition, which forced out the fundamentalist Taliban regime.
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The Nato alliance is to assume charge of security over the entirety of Afghanistan on Thursday.
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POIANA BRASOV, Romania  - NATO defense ministers  will discuss on Wednesday a controversial call by the United  States under which the alliance would take over military  operations in Afghanistan.
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The United States urged NATO on Wednesday to produce plans to take control of all military operations in Afghanistan, possibly from next year, in a call which spooked some of its alliance partners.
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President Bush appealed to NATO allies on Tuesday to provide more troops with fewer national restrictions for the alliance's most dangerous mission in Afghanistan, hours before a summit of allied leaders.