NATO agrees on Iraq trainers
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BRUSSELS NATO allies agreed on Wednesday to send hundreds of instructors to run a training center for Iraq&#39;s armed forces. This comes after it addressed French concerns that had delayed a deal for a week.
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In a fresh sign of lingering tensions over the Iraq war, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell Thursday rapped European allies who declined to assist a NATO-led Iraq training
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NATO and the Belgian government signed an agreement Wednesday to build new alliance headquarters adjacent to the current site, confirming Brussels as the home of the military bloc and underscoring improved relations between the host and the United States.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization agreed Thursday to increase its forces training soldiers in Baghdad, but six member countries refused to take part, prompting expressions
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Italian Defense Minister Antonio Martino said Friday Italy will play its part in a NATO program to train Iraqi soldiers and police to help bring peace and security to the country, local reports said.
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Defense chiefs from NATO's 26 nations   agreed on Saturday they needed more troops and fewer   limitations on the use of their forces to step up the fight   against insurgents in the violent south of Afghanistan.
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NATO will send military trainers to Iraq before the end of the year in response to appeals by Iraqi leaders for speedy action, US ambassador to NATO Nicholas Burns said Wednesday.
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They gathered in Brussels to try to agree on the terms for expanding the alliance&#39;s small military training mission in Iraq. Officials said before the meeting that they believed an accord would be possible
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The United States said it expected  European countries to come up with offers of help in Iraq and  Afghanistan at a NATO meeting on Thursday to discuss the  alliance's role in the insurgency-hit countries.
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Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and other NATO defense ministers will meet in this small mountain resort on Wednesday to discuss increased training and contributions toward strengthening Iraqi security forces.
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The Iraqi military academy that NATO plans to set up outside Baghdad should be able to train about 1,000 officers a year, the alliance's top commander in Europe said Thursday.
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NATO ambassadors have agreed on a plan to expand the alliance training mission in Iraq. A NATO spokesman says the accord provides for the dispatch of instructors to staff a military training academy for Iraqi trainees.
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NATO foreign ministers pledged Thursday to speed the expansion of alliance peacekeeping in Afghanistan and boost military training for Iraq, but failed to come up immediately with the troops for both operations.
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The U.S. military plans to speed up the training of Iraq's army by tripling its number of embedded trainers to about 9,000, while keeping a close eye on units' sectarian loyalties, a U.S. general said on Sunday.
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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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Poland will provide the Iraqi army with weapons and equipment worth 236 million dollars, including helicopters and small arms, and train Iraqis to use them, officials said Wednesday.
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All U.S. military units sent to Iraq as part of a troop increase ordered by President George W. Bush will be fully trained and equipped, commanders promised on Tuesday, after Democratic contentions that the Pentagon could not afford to do so.