McNeil Takes Over Command of NATO Troops in Afghanistan
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KABUL, Afghanistan  -- The highest-ranking U.S. general to lead troops in Afghanistan took command of 35,500 strong NATO-led force Sunday, putting an American face on the international mission after nine months of British command.
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A NATO air strike has killed a Taliban commander behind an insurgent takeover of a small southern Afghanistan town, as a US general took command of the 35,000-strong NATO-led force.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan &#151; NATO-led troops suffered their eighth fatality since taking command of southern Afghanistan when a road accident Saturday killed a Canadian soldier and injured three others.
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PORTOROZ, Slovenia  - NATO defense chiefs were set   on Thursday to agree to assume command of peacekeeping across   all of insurgency-hit Afghanistan next month despite some   allies' concerns over tactics and troop shortfalls.
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One of two NATO soldiers killed in separate clashes in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday was British, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said.
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PORTOROZ, Slovenia  - NATO defense chiefs agreed   on Thursday to assume command of peacekeeping across all of   insurgency-hit Afghanistan next month despite some allies'   concerns over tactics and troop shortfalls.
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Territory in Afghanistan taken in battles by UK troops may be re-taken by the Taleban, the Nato commander warns.
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The commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Europe, Marine Corps Gen. James Jones, arrived Tuesday in Bulgaria to inspect military sites that could host American troops as part of a Pentagon plan to create new, ...
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  - NATO forces killed a Taliban commander in southern Afghanistan on Sunday during an offensive to retake a town from the militants, residents said.
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The US is to urge Nato to take overall responsibility for peacekeeping and reconstruction in Afghanistan.
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MONS, Belgium  - U.S. General Bantz Craddock, the soldier who oversaw the Guantanamo prison for terrorism suspects, took over as NATO's supreme allied commander for Europe on Thursday.
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A NATO soldier was killed and four wounded during an operation in southern Afghanistan early Saturday, while U.S.-led coalition and Afghan forces detained a Taliban commander and two suspected al-Qaida militants in the east, officials said.
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POIANA BRASOV, Romania  - The United States urged  NATO on Wednesday to produce plans to take control of all  military operations in Afghanistan, possibly from next year, in  a call which spooked some of its alliance partners.
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NATO has assumed responsibility for security across the whole of Afghanistan, taking over from U.S.-led forces that toppled the Taliban regime five years ago.
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In the final hours of British General David Richards' command of NATO forces in Afghanistan, a much-vaunted and equally criticized truce with tribal elders fell apart as the Taliban overran a key southern town.
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ARGHINDAB RIVER VALLEY, Afghanistan  - British-led armored columns of NATO troops swept into southern Afghanistan's Kandahar province on Friday, launching one of the biggest operations in months.
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Islamabad, Pakistan, March 6 -- NATO and Afghan forces launched what commanders described as a major operation in a key province of southern Afghanistan Tuesday morning, part of a bid to win back territory that has become a haven for insurgents.