Merkel warns NATO against divisive Afghan debate
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Chancellor Angela Merkel vowed on Wednesday to keep German peacekeepers in northern Afghanistan and resist attempts to transfer them to the more violent south.Comment
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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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Nato's chief warns of big challenges in Afghanistan, as top US and UK diplomats visit the country.
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Russia warned NATO on Tuesday against policies that could destabilise security in Europe, but both sides agreed to continue talks on deep divisions between the former Cold War foes.
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Australia's new government has warned NATO and its allies they will lose the war against hardline Taliban forces in Afghanistan unless they urgently change tactics, a report said.
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates criticized NATO on Monday for failing to send enough troops and other resources to Afghanistan, setting the stage for tense alliance discussions later this week.
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Government officials urged parliament Thursday to keep Germany's 3,000 troops and six reconnaissance jets in Afghanistan for another year, saying a pullout now would endanger progress made since the overthrow of the Taliban in 2001.
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Leading European NATO members were set   to tell military commanders on Wednesday they cannot provide   reinforcements to help quell an insurgency in southern   Afghanistan, alliance sources said.
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Nato says it needs to do better in its operations in Afghanistan, after a rebuke by President Hamid Karzai.
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Criticism aimed at Britain and allies by Afghanistan's government threatens to undermine public backing for military action, lawmakers warned Thursday.
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Germany on Friday rejected a call from the United States to send combat troops to dangerous parts of southern Afghanistan and said there were no plans to change its deployment of troops in the less violent north.
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"Let's wait for the parliamentary debate, and then we will certainly have bridges to cross, which we will certainly cross"  NATO is urging Canada not to pull its troops out of Afghanistan's dangerous Kandahar province. via 900 CHML AM
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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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Tension among allies over the war in Afghanistan spilled into the open on Wednesday as NATO rejected U.S. criticism that some of its troops did not know how to fight a guerrilla insurgency.
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US Defence Secretary Robert Gates warns the future of Nato is at risk due to differences over 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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Chancellor Angela Merkel vowed on  Wednesday to keep German peacekeepers in northern Afghanistan  and resist attempts to transfer them to the more violent south.