NATO Allies OK Increase in Iraq Training
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NATO allies agreed Wednesday to send hundreds of instructors to run a training center for Iraq's armed forces after addressing French concerns that had delayed a deal for a week.
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The United States will urge European allies to help speed up a long-promised expansion of Nato's peacekeeping mission in Afghanistan at a meeting of defence ministers starting Wednesday, diplomats said.
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Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld told NATO allies Thursday that new commitments to assist U.S.-led efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq make success there more likely.
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US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says Iraqi security forces need equipment as well as training and anything NATO allies can do to support them will be helpful.
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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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NICE, France -- Several NATO nations, encouraged by the Jan. 30 elections in Iraq, are offering to train Iraqi security forces in their own countries, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said yesterday.
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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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Struggling to muster more troops for Afghanistan and to take on an expanded training mission in Iraq, NATO defense ministers will aim this week to advance reforms that would let the alliance mobilize faster for far-flung operations.
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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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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization agreed Wednesday to expand the training of Iraqi security force officers at a facility outside Baghdad in preparation for planned elections in January.
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Overcoming objections by France and Belgium, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has reached a decision to send more help to Iraq.
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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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The Nato alliance agrees to play a major role in training Iraqi security forces, a spokesman says.
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NOORDWIJK, Netherlands  - Germany and France pledged to send more trainers to bolster the national Afghan army on Wednesday but U.S. calls for major troop increases went largely unanswered at NATO talks.
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NATO foreign ministers agreed Thursday to launch the next phase of the alliance training mission in Iraq, a move that should see up to 300 military instructors arrive in Baghdad in the coming weeks.
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After months of haggling over Natoâs role in Iraq, the alliance answered a plea from the US by scraping together a force of 300 to help train Iraqi security forces.
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US appeals to European nations to boost NATO missions in Iraq and Afghanistan have been a success, with the alliance announcing a small expansion of its fledgling military training facility in Baghdad.