Afghanistan strains NATO ties
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Secretary of State Rice arrives in London Wednesday to address tensions among key allies.
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Tension among key allies over the war in Afghanistan spilled into the open on Wednesday as NATO rejected U.S. criticism that some of its troops did not know how to fight a guerrilla insurgency.
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NICE, France  - The United States will call on its  European NATO allies on Thursday to commit more forces to  alliance missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, as both sides try to  mend ties across the Atlantic.
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Nato can prevail in Afghanistan - but only if members boost their commitment, the alliance's head warns.
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One issue will dominate this week's NATO summit &#151; Afghanistan.
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The United States will lead pressure on European allies to supply more troops and equipment to fight Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan at NATO talks on Wednesday but could come away frustrated, alliance sources said.
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NATO pressed its allies at a summit Tuesday to deploy more troops to Afghanistan's volatile south, but Germany resisted any permanently expanded presence and Canada complained of bearing the brunt of an ...Comment
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VILNIUS/KABUL  - NATO's top official rejected on Thursday U.S. concern that some member countries were not pulling their weight in the fighting in Afghanistan.
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BRUSSELS -- More than a week after NATO's top leaders publicly demanded reinforcements for their embattled mission in southern Afghanistan, only one member of the 26-nation alliance has offered more troops, raising questions about NATO's largest military operation ever outside of Europe and the goal...
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Tensions among key allies over the war in Afghanistan spilled into the open on Wednesday as NATO rejected U.S. criticism that some of its troops did not know how to fight a guerrilla insurgency.
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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and the top U.S. commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan yesterday issued a blunt assessment of the alliance's shortcomings in that country, arguing that the unwillingness of some member states to risk combat casualties is threatening NATO's future and undermining...
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Iran gives political and material support to President Hamid Karzai's Western-backed government, but it also may be aiding the Taliban as a way of hedging its bets in neighboring Afghanistan, NATO's top general here said Monday.
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and British Foreign Secretary David Miliband made a surprise trip to Afghanistan Thursday calling for NATO allies to step up support for the fight against the Taliban.
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SEVILLE, Spain  - The United States stepped up pressure on NATO allies on Thursday to send more troops to Afghanistan to crush an expected Taliban offensive, saying the next few weeks would be pivotal in battling the insurgency.
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KABUL, Afghanistan  - NATO urged Afghanistan on  Sunday to fix a date for parliamentary elections as soon as  possible to give the alliance time to plan reinforcements to  send to the country for the vote.
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NATO military chief General Ray Henault pressed alliance member states to send men and equipment to Afghanistan, where NATO troops are battling a revived Taliban insurgency.
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In a show of solidarity, NATO leaders agreed Wednesday to come to each other's aid in emergencies anywhere in Afghanistan, but their summit failed to muster significant reinforcements for operations in Taliban strongholds.