Gates says Somalia strike possibly ongoing
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U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates declined to comment on Sunday about Friday's U.S. naval strike on targets in Somalia, saying it was possibly an ongoing operation.
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The African Union vowed Wednesday it would not be deterred from sending troops to Somalia, despite a call by a firebrand Somali Islamist commander for an uprising against them.
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Hundreds of protesters in Mogadishu threatened to attack African peacekeepers and burned flags of nations supporting the idea on Friday even as international diplomats urged speedy deployment of such a force.
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday that extending deployments of U.S. troops now in Iraq beyond the current 15 months was a "worst-case scenario" and that he didn't anticipate it happening.
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The United States is not planning for a war with Iran and instead is trying to stop them from contributing to the violence in Iraq, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Friday.
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Robert Gates, seemingly clinching confirmation as the new secretary of defense, said Tuesday the United States is not winning in Iraq and he's confident President Bush will listen to his ideas about forging a new war strategy.
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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates insisted again Friday that, despite persistent reports to the contrary circulating in Washington and around the world, the United States is not planning military action against Iran.
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The president of a semiautonomous region in northeastern Somalia vowed Tuesday to resist the expansion of Islamic militants as more fighting was reported in the chaotic East African nation.
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MUNICH, Germany  - Defense Secretary Robert Gates told Europe on Sunday it must boost defense spending and commit more troops and money to Afghanistan if NATO is to remain a potent military alliance.
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The United States has proposed delaying the activation of parts of its European missile defense shield if Russia cooperates on the project, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Tuesday.
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Thursday denied reports of discontent between Washington and NATO allies over Afghanistan, a day after a newspaper quoted him criticizing NATO's counterinsurgency skills.
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The United States on Thursday condemned as "irresponsible" a threat by Somalia's Islamist movement to attack Ethiopian troops backing the Horn of Africa nation's interim government unless they leave within days.
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U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has urged European nations to commit more troops to help fight extremism in Afghanistan.
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U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates will consider a proposal to send some 3,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan to thwart any spring offensive by Taliban militants, the Pentagon said on Wednesday.
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Terror leader Osama bin Laden will release a new Internet message dealing with Somalia and Iraq, according to a Web posting Friday.
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Survival of the NATO alliance, a cornerstone of American security policy for decades, is at stake in the debate over how the United States and Europe should share the burden of fighting Islamic extremism in Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Sunday.
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European Union experts say the United  States is pushing to get a regional peacekeeping force deployed  in Somalia and this could trigger a wider war in the Horn of  Africa, European Commission sources said on Tuesday.