NATO General Tells of Taliban Setbacks
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A top NATO alliance general said yesterday that Afghanistan's Taliban militia has lost its ability to control large swaths of territory, even if the hard-line Islamic movement remains strong in "small pockets" of the country.
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British soldiers in Afghanistan are involved in some of the worst and most prolonged fighting since World War II, the British commander of NATO forces in the country said.
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The resurgent Taliban militia poses a tactical problem for the U.S.-led coalition but it cannot take over Afghanistan again, a top U.S. general said.
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A NATO-led airstrike in southern Afghanistan this week killed up to 30 Taliban fighters including two commanders, the governor of the troubled Kandahar province said.
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A top American general said Sunday that attacks along the Afghan-Pakistan border have dropped more than 40 percent since July and the U.S. and its allies are making progress in the fight against the Taliban.
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Taliban opposition to NATO forces in  Afghanistan is far tougher than was expected when alliance  troops were initially deployed, British Defense Minister Des  Browne said on Tuesday.
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A Taliban commander killed in southern Afghanistan last week had rejoined the hardline militia after his release from Guantanamo Bay earlier this year, according to an Afghan provincial governor.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 17 -- Since winter, the Taliban had been promising a spring offensive. It didn't come. Instead, NATO and U.S. forces have pounded the group's positions and killed its senior leadership.
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Taliban opposition to NATO forces in   Afghanistan is far tougher than was expected when alliance   troops were initially deployed, British Defense Minister Des   Browne said on Tuesday.
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A top Nato general urges member states to send more troops to Afghanistan, as clashes continue in the south.
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The British-led NATO force in  Afghanistan does not have enough troops to carry out its  mission and the Taliban show worrying signs of growing  stronger, a report by Britain&#39;s parliament has found.
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NATO forces inflicted a "tactical defeat" on the resurgent Taliban movement in southern Afghanistan in an offensive that ended last weekend, but a growing illegal narcotics trade that helps fund the insurgency is gaining ground, NATO's top military command said today.
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Continuing violence and economic instability could lead to social breakdown in Afghanistan if military strategy does not change, according to former Nato commander
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NATO generals struggled Wednesday to persuade allies to provide an extra 2,000 troops urgently sought by commanders because of the ferocity of Taliban resistance to the alliance push into southern Afghanistan.
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates believes NATO forces operating in the Taliban stronghold of southern Afghanistan do not know how to fight a guerrilla insurgency, a newspaper reported on Wednesday.
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The British-led NATO force in southern Afghanistan does not have enough troops to carry out its mission and the Taliban show worrying signs of growing stronger, a report by Britain's parliament has found.
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MONS, Belgium  - NATO's top commander of   operations, General James Jones, acknowledged on Thursday the   alliance had underestimated the level of violence in south   Afghanistan and urged allies to provide reinforcements.