NATO Struggles to Find Troops for Missions
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NATO foreign ministers pledged Thursday to speed the expansion of alliance peacekeeping in Afghanistan and boost military training for Iraq, but failed to come up immediately with the troops for both operations.
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Russia and NATO states on Wednesday  struggled to find common ground to resolve a row over a  European arms pact, snagged over Moscow&#39;s refusal to close  bases in the former Soviet republics of Georgia and Moldova.
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NICE, France  - The United States will call on its  European NATO allies on Thursday to commit more forces to  alliance missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, as both sides try to  mend ties across the Atlantic.
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BRUSSELS - Under intense pressure from Taliban insurgents based in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and short of the troops needed for victory, NATO again is pleading with member states to step up their commitments, casting the fight in Afghanistan as vital for global security.
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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 increasingly bloody mission.
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NATO planners gave a withering assessment of the West's defense arsenal on Tuesday, saying their forces are sometimes unable to talk to each other on the ground because costly defense systems are not compatible.
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NATO members failed to offer any extra   troops for a tough peacekeeping mission in southern Afghanistan   at talks on Wednesday, an alliance spokesman said.
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Struggling to muster more troops for Afghanistan and take on an expanded training mission in Iraq, NATO defense ministers will aim this week to advance reforms that would let the alliance mobilize faster for ...
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NATO defense ministers were under pressure Thursday to find more troops for the alliance mission in Afghanistan ahead of an expected surge in fighting with the Taliban when the snow melts this spring.
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The US-led NATO campaign in Afghanistan is struggling to cope with insufficient troops and a resurgent Taliban insurgency, claims a parliamentary report published Wednesday.
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RIGA, Latvia -- In a show of solidarity, NATO leaders agreed yesterday to come to one another's aid in emergencies anywhere in Afghanistan, but their summit did not muster significant reinforcements for operations in Taliban strongholds.
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Leading European NATO members were set   to tell military commanders on Wednesday they cannot provide   reinforcements to help quell an insurgency in southern   Afghanistan, alliance sources said.
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Russia and NATO states on Wednesday struggled to find common ground to resolve a row over a European arms pact, snagged over Moscow's refusal to close bases in the former Soviet republics of Georgia and Moldova.
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CHENARI, Afghanistan  - NATO-led troops struggled  on Sunday to reach the icy mountain peak where an Afghan  passenger plane crashed three days ago with 104 people on  board, an official said.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- NATO nations failed to agree on calls by military commanders for 2,500 extra troops to help crush the growing Taliban-led insurgency in Afghanistan, where at least 50 people were killed yesterday in widespread violence.
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NOORDWIJK, Netherlands  - Nine nations including Germany and France pledged to send more military personnel to Afghanistan but U.S. calls for major troop increases were only partly answered at NATO talks on Wednesday.
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In a show of solidarity, NATO leaders agreed Wednesday to come to each other's aid in emergencies anywhere in Afghanistan, but their summit failed to muster significant reinforcements for operations in Taliban strongholds.