NATO leaders see progress on Afghanistan troops
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NATO leaders reported progress on Tuesday in freeing up more troops to fight Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan, signaling that some nations had agreed to drop limits on their forces as an alliance summit opened in Latvia.
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PORTOROZ, Slovenia  - NATO nations agreed on   Thursday to assume command of peacekeeping across all of   insurgency-hit Afghanistan in the next few weeks, a NATO   spokesman said.
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NATO leaders today agreed to step up operations in Afghanistan and lift the rules of engagement, said Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer. A NATO spokesman says this means 26,000 allied troops are now "more usable" for combat in Afghanistan.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair is hopeful that his NATO allies will pledge to do more to help British-led troops in southern Afghanistan at an alliance summit in the Latvian capital.
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NOORDWIJK, Netherlands  - Nine nations including Germany and France pledged to send more military personnel to Afghanistan but U.S. calls for major troop increases were only partly answered at NATO talks on Wednesday.
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Britain may increase the number of troops it has in Afghanistan, according to a Nato spokesman.
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Struggling to muster more troops for Afghanistan and take on an expanded training mission in Iraq, NATO defense ministers will aim this week to advance reforms that would let the alliance mobilize faster for ...
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U.S. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Wednesday he is confident NATO nations will provide sufficient peacekeeping troops in Afghanistan, though it may take some prodding.
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NATO leaders could agree to move troops around Afghanistan in emergency cases, as commanders demand more flexibility to fight the Taliban-led insurgency, the alliance's secretary general said.
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NATO leaders will declare their determination on Wednesday to prevail over Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan while offering only small increases in troop levels and flexibility.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai, right, talks with US Gen. James L. Jones, left, in the presence of the Supreme Allied Commander Europe, NATO senior civilian representative for Afghanistan, Hikmet Cetin, center
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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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MONS, Belgium  - NATO's top operational commander said on Wednesday its force in Afghanistan faced troop shortages and diplomats doubted whether an alliance summit next week would plug the gaps.
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Despite a rise in insurgent violence this spring, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Sunday he is convinced that American and NATO forces are making steady progress against the Taliban.
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PORTOROZ, Slovenia  - NATO defense chiefs were set   on Thursday to agree to assume command of peacekeeping across   all of insurgency-hit Afghanistan next month despite some   allies' concerns over tactics and troop shortfalls.
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NATO countries are not giving the  international force securing Afghanistan enough support and  there are worrying signs that the Taliban are growing stronger,  a detailed study by Britain&#39;s parliament has found.
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PORTOROZ, Slovenia, Sept. 28 -- NATO agreed Thursday to take command of military operations across all of insurgency-hit Afghanistan next month after the United States pledged to transfer 12,000 American troops in the country to the NATO force.