Miliband: No plans for Afghan surge
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Foreign secretary rejects proposals for more troops.
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Pakistani President Pervez   Musharraf on Wednesday angrily rejected Afghan charges that he   was being soft on the Taliban and said Kabul should be doing   more to stamp out the militant threat.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair&#39;s office yesterday dismissed a newspaper report that he had ordered the military to prepare 3,000 troops for a possible mission to Sudan&#39;s violence-torn Darfur region.
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Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett arrived in Afghanistan Tuesday as President Hamid Karzai welcomed London's pledge to send 1,400 more troops ahead of an expected surge in Taliban unrest.
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Foreign Secretary David Miliband on Monday gave the strongest hint yet that the British government does not want Zimbabwe's planned cricket tour of England next year to go ahead.
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Foreign Secretary David Miliband has insisted that "deep concerns" about mistakes in Iraq and Afghanistan should not stop Britain from championing democracy around the world.
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23 August 2004 -- President Pervez Musharraf promised visiting Afghan leader Hamid Karzai today that Pakistan will not allow Islamic militants to use Pakistani soil to disrupt Afghanistan&#39;s presidential elections this fall.
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper, under  fire at home for a troop commitment to Afghanistan that has  cost 70 lives, said on Tuesday he would not abandon the  country.
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France has no plans to pull its troops out of Afghanistan and will remain loyal to its allies serving in a multinational force there, Prime Minister Francois Fillon said Tuesday
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Britain is to announce that it will send up to 1,000 extra troops to Afghanistan, according to media reports Friday, sparking claims that it is being forced to take up the slack from its NATO allies.
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LONDON, England -- Prime Minister Tony Blair&#39;s government has dismissed opposition claims that a redeployment of British troops in Iraq would be a &quot;political gesture&quot; to the White House ahead of next month&#39;s US presidential election.
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France will not send troops to help NATO  in southern Afghanistan because it has its hands full in Kabul,  Defense Minister Michele Alliot-Marie said on Thursday.
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NATO military commanders request 2,500 more soldiers to fight Taleban No formal offers from any other alliance members as yet Blair appeals for countries to do their 'duty' Key quote "If we are going to ...
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Taliban suicide attacks are setbacks but will not prevent coalition forces from squeezing insurgents out, the British commander in Afghanistan told BBC radio on Tuesday.
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown signalled Wednesday there would be no change of policy on Iraq and Afghanistan and no rush to withdraw troops.
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Improving security in Afghanistan can only be done by political, rather than military, means, Britain's top military officer said Thursday as NATO offered more troops.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair said Friday that he had pressed his fellow EU leaders to bolster troop contributions for Afghanistan, but would not be drawn on whether any offers had been made.