U.S. NATO envoy calls for more troops in Afghanistan
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NATO allies must fulfill their  commitment to the future stability of Afghanistan by  dispatching more troops to fight insurgents, Washington's  ambassador to the alliance said on Wednesday.
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Military commanders are looking for more surveillance and other intelligence gathering systems to help aid the fight in Afghanistan, the top NATO commander said Monday.
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NATO allies must fulfill their   commitment to the future stability of Afghanistan by upping   their fighting capability and putting more troops on the   ground, Washington's ambassador to the alliance said on   Wednesday.
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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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Defense chiefs from NATO's 26 nations   agreed on Saturday they needed more troops and fewer   limitations on the use of their forces to step up the fight   against insurgents in the violent south of Afghanistan.
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SEVILLE, Spain  - The United States stepped up pressure on NATO allies on Thursday to send more troops to crush an expected Taliban offensive, saying the next few weeks would be pivotal in battling the insurgency.
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NATO defense ministers agreed Thursday on an expansion of the alliance's peacekeeping mission in Afghanistan and will send troops into the western parts of the country, the alliance's top official said.
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All 26 NATO nations have soldiers in Afghanistan and all agree the mission is their top priority. But the refusal of European allies to send more combat troops is forcing an already stretched U.S. military to fill the gap, and straining the Western alliance.
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NATO's top operational commander wants more troops to help crush an expected Taliban offensive in Afghanistan but is facing widespread reluctance among allies to come forward, alliance officials said on Tuesday.
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NATO risks a split between countries that are willing to fight and those that are not because some European states refuse to send more troops to Afghanistan, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Wednesday.
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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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President Bush appealed to NATO allies on Tuesday to provide more troops with fewer national restrictions for the alliance's most dangerous mission in Afghanistan, hours before a summit of allied leaders.
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NATO allies were considering urgent calls to bolster the size of their force in Afghanistan, where Britain's senior commander described fighting as more ferocious than in Iraq.
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NATO's top commander on Thursday urged allied nations to send reinforcements to southern Afghanistan, where resurgent Taliban militants are inflicting heavy casualties on foreign forces and have captured a remote town for the second time in two months.
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates will  press NATO allies this week for more troops and aid to relieve  shortfalls in Afghanistan as commanders prepare a spring  offensive against the Taliban, a senior U.S. defense official  said.
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NATO's top commander renewed an appeal Friday for allies to urgently provide up to 2,500 troops for the battle with Taliban insurgents in southern Afghanistan, but officials said it likely would take two weeks before governments reply.
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NATO's top diplomat urged allied foreign ministers Thursday to boost their commitment to Afghanistan and Iraq, where the 26 allies are struggling to muster hundreds of troops needed to expand training or peacekeeping missions.