Do more to fight Taliban, Australia tells Europe
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Australia urged more European nations  on Tuesday to let their troops move into southern Afghanistan  to help fight a resurgent Taliban, but said its own commandos'  deployment there was due to end shortly.
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Australia's new defense minister has warned U.S. and NATO allies that they risk losing the war in Afghanistan without a sharp shift in military and reconstruction efforts, according to his office. While the U.S.-led coalition has been "stomping on lots of ants, we have not been dealing with the ants' nest," Joel Fitzgibbon said.
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Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf told European Union officials Tuesday that the Taliban was now a bigger danger for the West than al-Qaida because it enjoys broad support in Afghanistan.
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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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SEVILLE, Spain  - The United States raised pressure on NATO allies on Thursday to rush more troops to Afghanistan to crush an expected Taliban offensive, saying the coming weeks would be key in battling the insurgency.
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Australia's new government has warned NATO and its allies they will lose the war against hardline Taliban forces in Afghanistan unless they change tactics urgently, a report said Monday.
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NATO countries are sending thousands more troops to Afghanistan to help battle a surprisingly violent Taliban resurgence in the south -- the alliance's first test in ground combat for "a long, long time," NATO's top commander said yesterday.
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European nations need to think more seriously about how terrorism affects them, even in such far-off places as Afghanistan, NATO's secretary-general said Thursday.
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Australia is in Afghanistan for the "long haul," Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said on a surprise visit Saturday to the country, which is battling an intensifying insurgency led by Taliban extremists.
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Violence in the Netherlands is under control and is no worse than elsewhere in Europe, but the continent must do more to deal with radical Muslims and share intelligence, the Dutch foreign minister said on ...
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Afghanistan's Taliban plan to abduct and kill more nationals from foreign countries whose troops serve under NATO and the U.S. military in the country, a spokesman for the Islamic movement warned on Monday.
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Nato military chiefs are set to make a further request from member states for more troops to fight the Taleban.
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Â· US presses Europe to strengthen fighting forceÂ· Alliance could split as credibility is threatened
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Afghanistan's defense minister asked on Thursday for more money and equipment to fight soaring Taliban violence as America's Pentagon chief criticized NATO allies for failing to deliver promised aid.
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Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has said Afghanistan must stop blaming his country for the Taliban-led insurgency, while NATO's top commander asked for more troops to battle the violence.
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Australia will send an extra 50 police  to East Timor as a multinational force tries to quell violence  between feuding army and police units and gangs of youths,  Prime Minister John Howard said on Sunday.
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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.