Extend Afghan tour, Canada urged
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Nato's secretary general calls on Canada to keep soldiers in Afghanistan beyond the current 2009 deadline.
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Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, reinforcing an ultimatum over Afghanistan, told U.S. President George W. Bush on Wednesday that Ottawa would withdraw its military mission next year unless NATO sent in more troops, officials said.
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German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder called Wednesday for an extension of the German Army's 2,100-man United Nations mission in northern Afghanistan.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- The leaders of France and Australia met with Afghan President Hamid Karzai Saturday, each pledging their countries' long-term commitment to Afghanistan.
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Canada's government offered its congratulations to Afghanistan following landmark presidential elections there this weekend.
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The NATO chief on Friday called on Afghanistan to improve its government and boost support for its security forces to step up the fight against the Taliban.
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TORONTO, Sept. 11 -- Prime Minister Stephen Harper sought to bolster flagging public support for the five-year-old war in Afghanistan, where 32 Canadian soldiers have been killed.
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International forces should expect to stay in Afghanistan for "10 to 20 years," according to a Canadian commander who helped lead foreign troops in Kabul until February.
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Gordon Brown asks the international community to share the burden of the conflict in Afghanistan.
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NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer urged Canada on Thursday to keep its military mission in Afghanistan beyond the scheduled February 2009 date for withdrawal.
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ZORMAT, Afghanistan  - U.S. troops in east Afghanistan might be eager for their 15-month tour to end but even as they wait they say would have achieved little had they stayed only six months like NATO troops elsewhere.
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Canadian soldiers are among those helping form a cordon around Kabul in advance of Tuesday&#39;s inauguration of President-elect Hamid Karzai.
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Australia urged more European nations  on Tuesday to let their troops move into southern Afghanistan  to help fight a resurgent Taliban, but said its own commandos'  deployment there was due to end shortly.
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BERLIN: The German government will ask parliament to extend a peacekeeping mission of 2,100 soldiers in Afghanistan for another year but expects to keep troops in the country much longer than that.
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NATO's top commander renewed an appeal Friday for allies to urgently provide up to 2,500 troops for the battle with Taliban insurgents in southern Afghanistan, but officials said it likely would take two weeks before governments reply.
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OTTAWA - President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan pleaded with Canada yesterday not to withdraw its 2,500 troops when their mission ends in early 2009, saying to do so would only help deliver his country back to the Taliban, the Globe and Mail newspaper reported. Karzai made his comments to a special meeting of all Canadian reporters based in Afghanistan.
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A handful of European NATO countries offered minor concessions on Afghanistan Tuesday, suggesting they'll allow their troops to reinforce the bloodied Canadian contingent in Kandahar in emergency circumstances.Comment