Afghanistan missions expose political rift in Germany
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BERLIN -- Differences have developed in Chancellor Angela Merkel's governing coalition over German troops in Afghanistan, with her Social Democratic partners joining opposition parties in demanding an end to German participation in the US counterinsurgency mission there.
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Germany fears further attacks on its troops in northern Afghanistan like the one that killed three of its soldiers on May 19, according to a foreign office report seen by a German newspaper.
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NOORDWIJK, Netherlands  - Germany and France pledged to send more trainers to bolster the national Afghan army on Wednesday but U.S. calls for major troop increases went largely unanswered at NATO talks.
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France and Germany spoke out Wednesday against a US proposal to put NATO in charge of the military and reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan, but US and other officials
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Germany&#39;s Greens, one of the most influential ecologist parties in the world, risk being split in two by deep divisions over the country&#39;s role in Afghanistan.
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FRANKFURT -- While the British public reacted to the latest terrorist strike there with stoicism and a practiced determination to get on with life, Germany has erupted in a rancorous dispute over how to deal with a terrorist threat that has yet to materialize here.
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A German citizen is believed to have been kidnapped in Afghanistan, a German foreign ministry spokesman said Wednesday.
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BERLIN, Sept 30  - The German parliament agreed overwhelmingly on Thursday to back the government and extend the army&#39;s peacekeeping mission in Afghanistan by a further 12 months.
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NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said Thursday he was counting on Germany to operate in any volatile part of Afghanistan in case of need, not just in the more peaceful northern sector.
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Several European dailies today focus on the role of international troops in Afghanistan as clashes with the Taleban intensify. Elsewhere, French presidential hopeful Nicolas Sarkozy comes under fire, EU expansion comes under scrutiny and an Austrian daily fears that Muslim schools in Europe could be forced underground.
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The German parliament has voted to extend for another year the mandate of the country&#39;s 2,000-troop contribution to the NATO peacekeeping force in Afghanistan.
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POIANA BRASOV, ROMANIA - Germany and France have rejected an appeal by the United States to have NATO take over the American-led combat mission in Afghanistan.
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BERLIN, Feb. 1 -- Germany on Friday rejected a formal request from the United States to send forces to war zones in southern Afghanistan, the latest setback to the NATO alliance as it tries to scrape together enough troops to battle resurgent Taliban forces and stabilize the country.
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Islamic militants threatened to attack Germany and Austria unless the two European nations break ranks with the U.S. and withdraw their personnel from Afghanistan, according to a Web statement.Comment
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Afghan Taliban rebels have killed two German hostages after the German government did not respond to demands to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan, a Taliban spokesman says.
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BERLIN: The German government will ask parliament to extend a peacekeeping mission of 2,100 soldiers in Afghanistan for another year but expects to keep troops in the country much longer than that.
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U.S. Defense Secretary Robert  Gates sought on Saturday to soothe tensions with Germany over  NATO's Afghan mission, saying relations would not suffer if  Berlin did not provide more troops.