'Real test' for NATO in Afghanistan: Rice
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NATO is facing a "real test" in Afghanistan but progress is being made to tackle the Taliban insurgency, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on a visit to London on Wednesday.
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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and the top U.S. commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan yesterday issued a blunt assessment of the alliance's shortcomings in that country, arguing that the unwillingness of some member states to risk combat casualties is threatening NATO's future and undermining...
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Tony Blair has said that the "credibility of NATO" rests on the alliance doing more to improve security in Afghanistan.Comment
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Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Wednesday he is confident that NATO nations will provide sufficient peacekeeping troops in Afghanistan, though it may take some prodding.Comment
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"If you look at the Afghanistan of 2001 and the Afghanistan of now there is a remarkable difference for the better"  Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday she has seen progress in Afghanistan during the past few years, despite a determined Taliban insurgency that has disrupted security and prompted concerns that the NATO-led military campaign is faltering.And Defense Secretary Robert Gates, seeking more military contributions from NATO members, said he's disappointed that some countries haven't sent combat troops to Afghanistan. But he also said he doesn't think the alliance is at a point of risking failure in the country. Read more
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PORTOROZ, Slovenia -- NATO said yesterday that it would take control of military operations across all of Afghanistan in what US Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld hailed as a ``bold step forward."
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CRAWFORD, Tex., May 21 -- President Bush vowed Monday to ask NATO allies to commit more troops and other resources to quell the Taliban resurgence in Afghanistan, calling the success of the alliance's mission there vital to the future security of both the United States and Europe.
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TALLIN, Nov. 27--President Bush will seek fresh troops and equipment for the fight in Afghanistan and fewer restrictions on how they can be used when he sits down this week with NATO allies to review the state of the dangerous mission there, according to senior U.S. officials.
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The Bush administration is confident that Afghanistan's first presidential election will be deemed valid despite protests from candidates that the balloting was marred by fraud, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice said Sunday.
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NATO allies with troops on the frontline in Afghanistan agreed Friday to develop a master plan for efforts to stabilise the country over the next five years, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said.
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called Sunday on President Pervez Musharraf to ensure campaigning ahead of Pakistan's elections in January was conducted freely and fairly.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday she will raise with Afghanistan's U.S.-backed president the case of an Afghan reporter sentenced to death for insulting Islam, a case that has not drawn the same wide U.S. outrage or administration intervention as one involving a Muslim condemned to death for converting to Christianity.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, countering criticism that the Bush administration has fundamentally broken with past U.S. foreign policy, asserted in a speech last night that the administration's policies are instead part of a 100-year-old tradition that she labeled "American realism."
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and British Foreign Secretary David Miliband arrived in Afghanistan on a surprise visit Thursday, an AFP correspondent travelling with them said.
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates will press NATO nations on Thursday to provide military and police trainers for Afghanistan and also plans to express interest in Russia's offer to cooperate on missile defense.
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Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld is checking up on promises for continued support in the war in Afghanistan by checking in with NATO defense leaders in southeastern Europe.
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Thursday began two days of talks with allied defense and diplomatic officials on how to re-energize and reinforce NATO efforts in southern Afghanistan