Army chief backs RAF Afghan role
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The head of the British Army defends the "exceptional" RAF after an e-mail criticises its performance in Afghanistan.
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Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett arrived in Afghanistan Tuesday as President Hamid Karzai welcomed London's pledge to send 1,400 more troops ahead of an expected surge in Taliban unrest.
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British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett said that British troops were &quot;stretched but not over-stretched&quot; in Afghanistan after the country's highest ranking officer spoke out against criticism of the air force.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai plays down tensions over the role of Nato powers operating in his country.
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Britain's new army chief warned that the country's military was stretched to its very limits, as authorities reeled from a deadly weekend plane crash and a new attack by Taliban insurgents.
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NATO will not be deterred by the   resurgence of the Taliban in southern Afghanistan and will go   ahead with its planned takeover from U.S.-led forces in the   volatile east, the alliance's head said on Wednesday.
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KABUL, Feb. 4 -- The highest-ranking U.S. general to lead troops in Afghanistan took command of 35,500 NATO soldiers Sunday after nine months of British command.
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Britain&#039;s Defence Secretary Des Browne said he was considering &amp;quot;as a matter of urgency&amp;quot; whether to send additional troops to Afghanistan, where six British soldiers have died in the last month.
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Nato's top commander urges member states to provide reinforcements to the mission in southern Afghanistan.
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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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An RAF serviceman has been killed in an explosion in Afghanistan, says the Ministry of Defence.
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The deployment of British troops to the restive southern province of Helmand in Afghanistan has &amp;quot;energised&amp;quot; the Taliban, Britain&#039;s Defence Secretary Des Browne admitted in an interview.
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Pakistan's president is to stay on as head of the army, despite an earlier pledge to stand down by January.
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Britain defended its role in Afghanistan   and the reliability of its equipment on Sunday after the   country's worst military air crash in years sparked growing   criticism of the British mission in the country.
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ISLSMABAD Dec 30 : President General Pervez Musharraf has declared that he would retain the office of Chief of the Army Staff as mandated by the Parliament for continuity of national policies and appealed to the Opposition to accept verdict of the
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Britain may increase the number of troops it has in Afghanistan, according to a Nato spokesman.
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Pakistan&#39;s President Pervez Musharraf says he will stay on as army chief, in defiance of earlier commitment to give up the post by the end of this year.