New push for Afghan disarmament
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Afghan authorities launch a new push to get people to hand over Stinger missiles from the 1980s war.
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NATO countries, under pressure from the U.S. and military leaders, may soon come through with additional troops and equipment needed to fight the escalating violence in Afghanistan.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon sought increased backing on Sunday for efforts to impose peace and order in Afghanistan from representatives of key countries involved there.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE -- Haiti's government and UN peacekeepers will launch a major campaign seeking to persuade hundreds of gangsters to disarm with promises of money, food, and job training, but top gang leaders will not be eligible, UN special envoy Edmond Mullet said yesterday. This is the most sweeping effort to persuade well-armed gangsters to stop violence since UN troops arrived ...
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President Karzai's rival gains ground by appealing to Afghanistan's former anti-Soviet resistance fighters.
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Concern grows over the progress of operations against Taliban and its effects on the unity of Nato
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Presidential campaigning in Afghanistan is shadowed by a new insurgent group plan for disruptions.
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China and Russia challenged the United States at a disarmament debate Tuesday by formally presenting a plan to ban weapons in space Â a proposal that Washington has called a diplomatic ploy by the two nations to gain a military advantage.
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The Afghan government is  tracking the country's private militias with international  help, and hopes to begin disarming them before parliamentary  elections, a U.N. official said on Monday.
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Defense and foreign ministers from eight NATO countries were gathering Friday in Scotland for a two-day conference to discuss Afghanistan's future, where the U.S. defense secretary plans to press allies to commit more resources to the fight there.
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Nato's secretary general says a number of members have offered more military resources for Afghanistan.
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The US-led militarycoalition in Afghanistan has beguna big offensive against militants loyal to the ousted Taliban regime in an attempt to quash any attempt to disrupt parliamentary elections next spring.
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Convincing Afghans to oppose the Taliban depends on fulfilling promises of aid and reconstruction.
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Momentum is building in Congress to revamp and expand a program credited with destroying thousands of nuclear weapons from Soviet stockpiles and keeping them out of terrorists' hands.
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NATO will hold two more conferences aimed at pushing member states to commit more troops to the alliance's mission in Afghanistan as it faces tough resistance from insurgents there, a spokesman said Saturday.
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U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates will press NATO nations to provide military and police trainers for Afghanistan and explore Russia's offer to cooperate on missile defense at talks in Brussels on Thursday.
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There has been more violence in Afghanistan where one of the country&#39;s vice presidents has narrowly avoided assassination. Attacks are escalating as Afghanistan prepares