Poland commits new troops to Afghanistan
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Poland said on Thursday it would send   1,000 new troops to Afghanistan, the first nation to respond to   NATO calls for reinforcements to step up the fight against   Taliban insurgents.
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Britain has decided to send a fresh wave of troops to Afghanistan before an expected spring offensive by the Taliban, which reacted by threatening to step up suicide bomb attacks on NATO forces.
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Britain is to announce that it will send up to 1,000 extra troops to Afghanistan, according to media reports Friday, sparking claims that it is being forced to take up the slack from its NATO allies.
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Thousands of American and Afghan troops unleashed a new offensive against Taliban militants in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday in an effort to expand the government's reach into the volatile Pakistani border region.
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WARSAW, Poland Â Poles began voting Sunday in elections pitting the prime minister's nationalists against a pro-business party that wants to bring the country's 900 troops home from Iraq and get more in return for hosting a U.S. missile defense base.
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In a major disappointment for Washington, Poland says that it aims to withdraw all of its 2,500 troops from Iraq next year. The US administration sees Warsaw as one of its staunchest allies in Iraq.
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Poland would like to host a major  NATO military installation on its soil as part of a deeper  security relationship with the United States, Polish Foreign  Minister Radoslaw Sikorski told Reuters on Thursday.
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Britain plans to send 1,000 more troops to Afghanistan, bolstering the 5,000 it already has there, British lawmakers said Friday.
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NATO is seeking an additional 2,000 troops to bolster its force in Afghanistan amid increasing insurgent violence, a spokesman said Friday in Warsaw, where the alliance's defense chiefs were meeting.
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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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The prime minister of Poland told his Parliament yesterday that he would begin reducing the number of Polish troops in Iraq in January, another blow to the US-led coalition that has lost nearly a third of its ...
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Poland's defense minister, Jerzy Szmajdzinski, told the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza last week that Poland planned a 40 percent reduction of its forces in Iraq by the end of January 2005 and to have all its ...
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SEVILLA, Spain -- The new American commander of NATO presented a new list of military requirements for Afghanistan yesterday that included a request for more combat troops for the country's restive southern provinces.
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Poland's president said Monday he wants his country to be an active broker of world peace and his government could send hundreds more troops than it has already pledged to a U.N. force in Lebanon.
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Britain is expected to announce the  deployment of more than 1,000 extra troops to Afghanistan to  help combat an anticipated offensive by Taliban insurgents in  coming months, the Guardian newspaper reported on Friday.
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Polish Prime Minister Marek Belka is to pay a Christmas visit to Polish troops stationed in Afghanistan ( news - web sites ) and Iraq ( news - web sites ) this week, unofficial sources said.
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Britain will send a wave of extra troops to Afghanistan ahead of an expected spring offensive by the Taliban, government sources said on Friday.