NATO diplomat urges Afghan, Iraq efforts
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NATO&#39;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
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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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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 Robert Gates will press NATO nations to provide military and police trainers for Afghanistan and explore Russia's offer to cooperate on missile defense at talks in Brussels on Thursday.
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NOORDWIJK, Netherlands -- The mounting tension on Turkey's border with Iraq and U.S. demands for European allies to do more in Afghanistan are expected to dominate a meeting of NATO defense ministers opening Wednesday in the Netherlands.
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The United States will urge European allies to help speed up a long-promised expansion of Nato's peacekeeping mission in Afghanistan at a meeting of defence ministers starting Wednesday, diplomats said.
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Escalating bloodshed and political  tension in Iraq will shadow President Bush at a NATO summit  this week where he hopes to persuade Europeans to do more to  quell violence in Afghanistan.
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President Bush reaches out to allies this week for help in quelling violence in Iraq and Afghanistan, in a burst of diplomacy from a Baltic summit of NATO partners to Mideast talks with Iraq's prime minister.
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Countries with troops in southern Afghanistan will discuss on Friday how to tackle rising violence by Taliban insurgents and mounting U.S. calls for bigger contributions to NATO's Afghan mission.
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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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NATO will help bring stability to Afghanistan but this must be matched by the international community's commitment to develop the country, the alliance's chief has said.
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U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has urged European nations to commit more troops to help fight extremism in Afghanistan.
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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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Defense Secretary Robert Gates  made a direct appeal to Europeans on Sunday to support the war  in Afghanistan, warning that violence and terrorism could surge  worldwide if NATO was defeated there.
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BRUSSELS - Under intense pressure from Taliban insurgents based in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and short of the troops needed for victory, NATO again is pleading with member states to step up their commitments, casting the fight in Afghanistan as vital for global security.
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NATO envoys neared agreement Wednesday on a limited expansion of the alliance's training mission for the Iraqi military after the United States and France narrowed differences over the scale and command of the ...
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The United States urged NATO countries on Wednesday to assume a bigger role in Afghanistan and to come up with a plan to take over all military operations there, possibly as early as next year.