NATO begins Afghan spring offensive
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NATO began its spring offensive against the Taliban on Tuesday, launching its biggest offensive since the 2001 war targeting the rebels and drug lords.
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PASHMUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 3 -- Warplanes and artillery pounded Taliban fighters hiding in orchards Sunday during a NATO-Afghan offensive in southern Afghanistan that the alliance said killed more than 200 insurgents in its first two days. Four Canadian soldiers were also killed.
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The European Union began its biggest-ever military operation Thursday, formally taking over NATO's peacekeeping mission in Bosnia with 7,000 troops.
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NATO is set to assume command of US-led troops in eastern Afghanistan, completing its expansion across the country in a move that the alliance describes as the most significant in its history.
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NATO-led troops launched an offensive against Taliban militants Tuesday in a volatile southern Afghan province where hundreds of militant fighters have amassed.
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NATO will take command of up to 12,000 U.S. troops and the territory they control in Afghanistan in "few days," a spokesman for the alliance said Sunday.
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The Taliban will launch an offensive within months once the snows melt, but they are effectively a beaten force, according to the outgoing head of NATO forces in Afghanistan.
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PORTOROZ, Slovenia -- NATO said yesterday that it would take control of military operations across all of Afghanistan in what US Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld hailed as a ``bold step forward."
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NATO assumed responsibility for security across the whole of insurgency-hit Afghanistan on Thursday when it took command in the east of the country from a U.S.-led coalition force.
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The Nato alliance is to assume charge of security over the entirety of Afghanistan on Thursday.
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In its largest offensive yet, thousands of NATO troops moved Tuesday into the mountains of southern Afghanistan where hundreds of hardcore Taliban insurgents hold sway &#151; an operation in the world's biggest opium-producing region aimed at winning over a population long supportive of militant fighters.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- U S and NATO commanders say they have blunted the Taliban's threatened spring offensive, killing almost 40 commanders and 2,000 insurgents. But suicide bombings and civilian deaths inflicted by international forces are all on the rise, threatening to derail the five-year mission to pacify and rebuild Afghanistan.
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NATO leaders will declare their determination on Wednesday to prevail over Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan while offering only small increases in troop levels and flexibility.
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NATO forces cornering Taliban guerrillas   killed 50-60 fighters in artillery and air strikes and ground   battles on Tuesday in a major offensive to crush a revitalized   Taliban in southern Afghanistan, the alliance said.
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Nato and Afghan forces launch their largest combined offensive so far against Taleban militants in southern Helmand province.
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PASHMUL, Afghanistan -- Warplanes and artillery pounded Taliban fighters hiding in orchards yesterday during a large Afghan-NATO offensive that the alliance said killed more than 200 militants in its first two days. Four Canadian soldiers also were killed.
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NATO-led forces will face "hard fighting" this spring in Afghanistan's volatile south and west, where the Taliban is gearing up for increased suicide and roadside bomb attacks, an alliance spokesman said Wednesday.