U.S. Allies Don't Want NATO in Afghanistan
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France and Germany spoke out Wednesday against a U.S. proposal to put NATO in charge of the military and reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan, but U.S. and other officials said the alliance would go ahead and develop options for merging the missions.
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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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A U.S. plan to forge a network of  partnerships around NATO from Scandinavia to Asia will get the  thumbs-down at a summit next week from members wary of the  alliance going global, diplomats said on Friday.
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Leaders of the 26 NATO nations failed to agree today on President BushÂs demand that member countries with troops in Afghanistan lift their restrictions on how the troops are used.
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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, saying the next few weeks would be pivotal in battling the insurgency.
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PORTOROZ, Slovenia  - NATO states have failed to forge an agreement on a scheme to share the cost of the alliance's quick-action response force because some rich members, who already face a bigger bill than poorer allies, do not want to pay more, according to U.S. defense officials.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell  accused European allies of undermining NATO on Thursday by  refusing to allow staff seconded to the alliance to take part  in its military training mission in Iraq.
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U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Thursday denied reports of discontent between Washington and NATO allies over Afghanistan, a day after a newspaper quoted him criticizing NATO's counterinsurgency skills.
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President Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice expressed concern Thursday that the commitment of NATO allies in Afghanistan may be flagging and warned against allowing the country to again become a cauldron for extremism.
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Nato could be destroyed if European allied troops are not prepared to fight in Afghanistan, says US
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Tensions are rising between Washington and allies such as Germany over the deployment of troops in Afghanistan
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Europe is in a serious tug of war situation. On one side America wants it in its age-old traditional mode of preserving Western Union of Nations through NATO.
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Australia's new defense minister has warned U.S. and NATO allies that they risk losing the war in Afghanistan without a sharp shift in military and reconstruction efforts, according to his office. While the U.S.-led coalition has been "stomping on lots of ants, we have not been dealing with the ants' nest," Joel Fitzgibbon said.
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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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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and British Foreign Secretary David Miliband made a surprise trip to Afghanistan Thursday calling for NATO allies to step up support for the fight against the Taliban.
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NATO defense ministers discussed a US-backed proposal on Wednesday to merge Afghan peacekeeping and anti-terrorism operations under a joint command, despite criticism of the plan by Germany and France.
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Concern grows over the progress of operations against Taliban and its effects on the unity of Nato