Afghanistan welcomes extra British troops as FM arrives
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Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett arrived in Afghanistan Tuesday as President Hamid Karzai welcomed London's pledge to send 1,400 more troops ahead of an expected surge in Taliban unrest.
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Britain is to send an additional 800 troops to southern Afghanistan, where they are bracing for a spring offensive by Taliban insurgents, Defence Secretary Des Browne has said.
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The government was to release details Monday of a new deployment to Afghanistan to bolster its 5,600-strong force in the troubled country.
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British forces in Afghanistan will be provided with whatever resources they need, the prime minister says.
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British forces in Afghanistan are due to hand control of Nato's International Security Assistance Force to the US.
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Australia will send an extra 150  troops to Afghanistan due to the deteriorating security  situation, Prime Minister John Howard said on Wednesday,  briefly boosting Canberra's commitment to Afghanistan to more  than 600.
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Top British generals are asking the government for more planes and helicopters to be sent to help Britain&#039;s troops in restive Afghanistan, a newspaper reported.
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Britain may increase the number of troops it has in Afghanistan, according to a Nato spokesman.
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Britain praised Afghanistan's &quot;inspirational&quot; elections, saying the high turnout was a milestone for the central Asian state recovering from decades of conflict.
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The deployment of British troops to the restive southern province of Helmand in Afghanistan has &amp;quot;energised&amp;quot; the Taliban, Britain&#039;s Defence Secretary Des Browne admitted in an interview.
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and British Foreign Secretary David Miliband arrived in Afghanistan on a surprise visit Thursday, an AFP correspondent travelling with them said.
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British troops could be in Afghanistan for decades, the country's Defence Secretary Des Browne said in comments published Sunday.
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Britain will send up to 1,000 extra troops to Afghanistan to fight a resurgent Taliban, media said Friday, only days after the government announced a major reduction in forces in Iraq.
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NATO defense ministers agreed Thursday on an expansion of the alliance's peacekeeping mission in Afghanistan and will send troops into the western parts of the country, the alliance's top official said.
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Foreign fighters are starting to appear   among Taliban forces fighting British troops in southern   Afghanistan, a senior British official said on Wednesday.
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Britain is set to announce that it is sending up to 1,000 extra troops to Afghanistan, according to media reports Friday.
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British forces claimed success on Monday in what they described as NATO's biggest operation yet in the southern part of the restive Afghan province of Helmand.