Netherlands sends planes to Afghanistan
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Netherlands Air Force F-16 combat jets will reinforce the NATO multinational force in Afghanistan to ensure security during the October elections.
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The United States will provide six helicopter gunships to Afghanistan's fledgling air force in August this year, part of a plan to supply 186 aircraft to the country, the head of the Afghan air force said on Thursday.
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More than 1,000 extra British troops are to be sent to  Afghanistan by the government, the BBC learns.
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Dutch troops forming part of the NATO-led force in Afghanistan probably killed two of their own soldiers while fighting Taliban insurgents, the Dutch Defence Ministry said on Sunday.
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The Dutch cabinet has decided to  bring home the 1,350 Dutch troops in Iraq in March next year,  confirming a decision first made in June, the Dutch news agency  ANP cited Defense Minister Henk Kamp as saying on Friday.
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Nato's secretary general says its members cannot "run away" from Afghanistan, as it hold talks in the Netherlands.
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Poland agrees to send an extra 1,000 troops to Afghanistan to join Nato forces there.
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Poland said on Thursday it would send   1,000 new troops to Afghanistan, the first nation to respond to   NATO calls for reinforcements to step up the fight against   Taliban insurgents.
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A British Airways (BA) plane en route from Berlin to London made an emergency landing at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport after a bomb threat was received.
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A Dutch military helicopter on Saturday found the wreckage of an Afghan passenger plane that went missing two days ago with 104 people on board after turning away from the capital Kabul in a snow storm.
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MILITARY fighters escorted a London-bound British Airways flight as it was diverted to land in Amsterdam yesterday in what turned out to be the third aircraft bomb hoax this week.
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Afghan and NATO forces launched a ground and air search operation Friday for an Afghan passenger jet carrying 104 people that disappeared from radar screens during a snowstorm near the mountain-ringed capital. Three Americans were believed to have been on board.
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Afghan and NATO troops on Saturday  resumed their efforts to confirm the crash site of an Afghan  passenger plane carrying 104 people after it disappeared off  radar screens, a Presidential Palace official said.
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An ambulance of the International Security Assistance Force carrying the body of Turkish Engineer Eyup Orel leaves Kabul airport in Kabul, capital of Afghanistan, Dec. 15, 2004.
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The US military announced Tuesday it was sending 3,200 additional troops to Afghanistan to help counter an expected offensive by the Taliban militia and help train Afghan national soldiers.
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NATO leaders today agreed to step up operations in Afghanistan and lift the rules of engagement, said Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer. A NATO spokesman says this means 26,000 allied troops are now "more usable" for combat in Afghanistan.
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Nato-led peacekeeping troops reach the wreckage of an Afghan airliner that crashed on Thursday, reports say.