Afghans ask US to help cool conflict
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KABUL The Afghan government appealed for US help to end fierce fighting that was continuing in western Afghanistan for a fourth day. The fighting moved closer to the city of Herat on Tuesday, causing significant casualties and anxiety among residents, ...
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Countries with troops in southern Afghanistan will discuss on Friday how to tackle rising violence by Taliban insurgents and mounting U.S. calls for bigger contributions to NATO's Afghan mission.
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US President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair have urged NATO countries to send extra troops to insurgency-hit Afghanistan, and drop conditions on the use of their forces which are complicating the mission.
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The top US official in Afghanistan called on the Taliban to give up their three-year insurgency, pledging Thursday that most who surrender will be left in peace
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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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US officials broker a truce between rival factions in the south-western Afghan city of Herat after heavy fighting.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai, right, talks with US Gen. James L. Jones, left, in the presence of the Supreme Allied Commander Europe, NATO senior civilian representative for Afghanistan, Hikmet Cetin, center
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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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The United States called on Taliban guerrillas to lay down their arms Thursday, saying Afghans had voted against violence and those who gave up their insurgency would not be punished unless they were guilty of major crimes.
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The United States will lead pressure on European allies to supply more troops and equipment to fight Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan at NATO talks on Wednesday but could come away frustrated, alliance sources said.
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The US ambassador here called on Japan Wednesday to maintain support for forces in Afghanistan, saying that ending the mission would hurt its alliance with Washington and send a bad message to the world.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Government troops intervened in Afghanistan's latest outbreak of deadly fighting among warlords, flying from the capital to the far west on US and NATO airplanes to retake an air base contested in the violence, officials said yesterday.
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Tension among allies over the war in Afghanistan spilled into the open on Wednesday as NATO rejected U.S. criticism that some of its troops did not know how to fight a guerrilla insurgency.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai wants  Pashtuns on both sides of the Pakistan border to work together against the Taleban.
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U.S. Defense Secretary Robert  Gates sought on Saturday to soothe tensions with Germany over  NATO's Afghan mission, saying relations would not suffer if  Berlin did not provide more troops.
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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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SEVILLE, Spain  - The United States stepped up pressure on NATO allies on Thursday to send more troops to Afghanistan to crush an expected Taliban offensive, saying the next few weeks would be pivotal in battling the insurgency.