Germany says no plans to boost Afghan troops
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MUNICH, Germany  - German Chancellor Angela Merkel has no plans to boost the number of German troops in Afghanistan or shift them to other parts of the country despite mounting U.S. pressure, a government spokesman said on Saturday.
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France and Germany spoke out Wednesday against a US proposal to put NATO in charge of the military and reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan, but US and other officials
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The Spanish government for now has no plan to send any more troops to Afghanistan as requested by theNorth Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Spanish Defense Minister Jose Bono said Wednesday.
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NATO's top operational commander wants more troops to help crush an expected Taliban offensive in Afghanistan but is facing widespread reluctance among allies to come forward, alliance officials said on Tuesday.
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The German foreign ministry on Wednesday said two German nationals had been reported missing in Afghanistan.
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NATO members failed to offer any extra   troops for a tough peacekeeping mission in southern Afghanistan   at talks on Wednesday and it could be weeks before   reinforcements are committed, an alliance spokesman said.
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HERAT, Afghanistan  - Afghanistan said on Friday it had no evidence the government of Iran was behind a shipment of weapons to Taliban insurgents.
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BERLIN, Feb. 1 -- Germany on Friday rejected a formal request from the United States to send forces to war zones in southern Afghanistan, the latest setback to the NATO alliance as it tries to scrape together enough troops to battle resurgent Taliban forces and stabilize the country.
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Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling coalition plans to discuss raising the upper limit on the number of troops Germany can send to Afghanistan under its parliamentary mandate, a paper reported on Thursday.
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Germany denied allegations on Friday  that prominent al Qaeda prisoners, including an accused  mastermind of the September 11 attacks, may have been secretly  questioned at a U.S. base on its soil.
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Chancellor Angela Merkel vowed on Wednesday to keep German peacekeepers in northern Afghanistan and resist attempts to transfer them to the more violent south.Comment
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The German parliament has voted to extend for another year the mandate of the country&#39;s 2,000-troop contribution to the NATO peacekeeping force in Afghanistan.
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Germany said Wednesday it could not rule out sending troops to Iraq, dropping its firm refusal to consider any deployment to the country whose invasion last year it staunchly opposed.
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France and Germany rejected any merger of the NATO and U.S-led missions in Afghanistan on Wednesday after Washington urged the alliance to study taking command of all military operations there.
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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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Germany will not seek extradition of suspected CIA agents in an alleged kidnapping case, officials say.
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ISN SECURITY WATCH (14/10/04) - Germany and France have rejected calls for merging the NATO-led International Stability Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan with other Western forces serving under the auspices of âOperation Enduring Freedomâ, the