Nato agrees to expand Iraq role
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The Nato alliance agrees to play a major role in training Iraqi security forces, a spokesman says.
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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld  will lobby NATO allies at a meeting in France this week to chip  in more to help train Iraqi security forces, a U.S. official  said on Monday.
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NATO member states reached agreement Wednesday on launching a full-blown training mission for Iraqi security forces, an official said.
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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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BRUSSELS -- NATO allies agreed yesterday to create a military training academy in Iraq, expanding the alliance's small presence in the country after two years of feuding over the US-led war.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization agreed Wednesday to the outlines of a military officer training program in Iraq, expanding the alliance&#39;s presence there after overcoming
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NICE, France -- Several NATO nations, encouraged by the Jan. 30 elections in Iraq, are offering to train Iraqi security forces in their own countries, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said yesterday.
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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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Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld told NATO allies Thursday that new commitments to assist U.S.-led efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq make success there more likely.
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Iraq&#39;s interim President Ghazi al-Yawer asked NATO on Tuesday for additional help in military training as part of the efforts to rebuild his country.
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NATO allies on Wednesday approved detailed plans to send up to 300 military instructors backed by hundreds of guards and support staff to Iraq in an expansion of the alliance's military training program.
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PRAGUE/MUNICH- The Czech Republic is ready to send three to five military instructors to the emerging mission of NATO in Iraq, Defence Minister Karel Kuehnl told CTK on Saturday.
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NATO ambassadors have agreed on a plan to expand the alliance training mission in Iraq. A NATO spokesman says the accord provides for the dispatch of instructors to staff a military training academy for Iraqi trainees.
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President Bush plans to propose an expanded partnership with NATO for five countries including Japan, Australia and South Korea at a summit of the alliance next week in Latvia.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair said  on Tuesday he expected an agreement on the training of Iraqi  security forces at an upcoming NATO summit that could see more  countries send troops.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization agreed today to substantially enlarge the number of forces stationed in Baghdad to train Iraqi soldiers, although leaders of six countries said they refused to participate.
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PORTOROZ, Slovenia  - NATO defense chiefs agreed   on Thursday to assume command of peacekeeping across all of   insurgency-hit Afghanistan next month despite some allies'   concerns over tactics and troop shortfalls.