Bush pleads for more NATO troops for Afghanistan
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President Bush appealed to NATO allies on Tuesday to provide more troops with fewer national restrictions for the alliance's most dangerous mission in Afghanistan, hours before a summit of allied leaders.
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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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SEVILLE, Spain  - The United States raised pressure on NATO allies on Thursday to rush more troops to Afghanistan to crush an expected Taliban offensive, saying the coming weeks would be key in battling the insurgency.
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President Bush signed off on a plan that will keep more troops than previously envisioned in Europe and add large numbers of soldiers to bases in Colorado, Georgia and Texas.
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Nato's top commander urges member states to provide reinforcements to the mission in southern Afghanistan.
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President George W. Bush said on Thursday the United States would keep higher troop levels in Afghanistan in anticipation of fierce fighting against the Taliban this spring after the most violent year since the hard-line group was ousted.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair urged his NATO allies Wednesday to bolster troop contributions for Afghanistan, saying he expected the issue to be raised on the sidelines of this week's EU summit.
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RIGA, Latvia, Nov. 28 -- President Bush today said NATO countries need to boost their ability and willingness to battle extremism in countries such as Afghanistan and Iraq, arguing that the World War II-era alliance has a modern role in helping democracy take root there and elsewhere.
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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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BRUSSELS -- More than a week after NATO's top leaders publicly demanded reinforcements for their embattled mission in southern Afghanistan, only one member of the 26-nation alliance has offered more troops, raising questions about NATO's largest military operation ever outside of Europe and the goal...
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CRAWFORD, Tex., May 21 -- President Bush vowed Monday to ask NATO allies to commit more troops and other resources to quell the Taliban resurgence in Afghanistan, calling the success of the alliance's mission there vital to the future security of both the United States and Europe.
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On a trip to Afghanistan, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called on NATO members to increase the number of troops they commit to the region.
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates is asking European allies for more troops to help stabilize Afghanistan, where the government is weak, the insurgency is relentless and casualties are mounting.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair has urged NATO allies to do more in Afghanistan saying the alliance's credibility and global security were at risk.
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Defense chiefs from NATO's 26 nations   agreed on Saturday they needed more troops and fewer   limitations on the use of their forces to step up the fight   against insurgents in the violent south of Afghanistan.
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NATO pressed its allies at a summit Tuesday to deploy more troops to Afghanistan's volatile south, but Germany resisted any permanently expanded presence and Canada complained of bearing the brunt of an ...Comment
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President Bush on Tuesday asked for more than &#36;80 billion in new funding for military operations this year in Iraq and Afghanistan, shattering initial cost estimates and pushing the total for both conflicts to nearly &#36;300 billion so far.