NATO appeals for reinforcements for Afghanistan
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MONS, Belgium  - NATO's top commander of   operations, General James Jones, acknowledged on Thursday the   alliance had underestimated the level of violence in south   Afghanistan and urged allies to provide reinforcements.
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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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President Bush appealed to NATO allies on Tuesday to provide more troops with fewer national restrictions for the alliance's most dangerous mission in Afghanistan, hours before a summit of allied leaders.
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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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Defense Secretary Robert Gates is asking European allies for more troops to help stabilize Afghanistan, where the government is weak, the insurgency is relentless and casualties are mounting.
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Nato says it needs to do better in its operations in Afghanistan, after a rebuke from President Hamid Karzai.
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The United States will press its  European NATO allies to send more troops to Afghanistan's  violent south in response to Canada's call for reinforcements,  but the Pentagon said it will not commit any more of its own  forces there.
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SEVILLE, Spain  - The United States stepped up pressure on NATO allies on Thursday to send more troops to crush an expected Taliban offensive in the coming weeks.
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NATO allies were considering urgent calls to bolster the size of their force in Afghanistan, where Britain's senior commander described fighting as more ferocious than in Iraq.
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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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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's secretary general says a number of members have offered more military resources for Afghanistan.
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President Bush on Thursday pressed NATO allies to provide a bigger and more aggressive force to protect the fragile Afghan state.
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NATO nations faced renewed calls on   Friday to supply extra troops for Afghanistan, with commanders   stressing a Polish offer of 1,000 soldiers next year did not   plug the shortfalls.
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Military commanders are looking for more surveillance and other intelligence gathering systems to help aid the fight in Afghanistan, the top NATO commander said Monday.
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The NATO chief on Friday called on Afghanistan to improve its government and strengthen its security forces to step up the fight against the Taliban.
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NATO members need to do more to boost   their force in Afghanistan in the growing battle against   Taliban fighters despite significant pledges of more troops,   the alliance's secretary-general said on Thursday.