Allied ministers push for help on Afghan frontline
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Allied defence ministers with troops on the front line in southern Afghanistan held talks Friday on how to fill gaps in forces and hammer out a strategy for the next half a decade.
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Taliban opposition to NATO forces in   Afghanistan is far tougher than expected when alliance troops   were initially deployed to aid reconstruction, British Defense   Minister Des Browne will say on Tuesday.
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Nato's top commander urges member states to provide reinforcements to the mission in southern Afghanistan.
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British, US and other allied defense ministers gathered here Friday to start crafting a five-year strategy to combat a growing Taliban insurgency and to press for more NATO troops.
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Nato ministers begin a second day of talks, after getting more resources for security efforts in Afghanistan.
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In the hours after President Hamid Karzai announced his cabinet at least five people were killed in a burst of Taliban-led violence across Afghanistan, officials said, highlighting how authorities have yet to quell an insurgency.
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NATO defense ministers will review procedures in Afghanistan on Thursday as part of efforts to halt a wave of civilian casualties threatening to undermine public support for foreign peacekeepers there.
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NATO military chiefs were set to wrap up a first meeting on Afghanistan amid urgent calls to boost their deployment in the south of the country where they have been surprised by the ferocity of the Taliban resistance.
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday that NATO allies must provide the troops and equipment needed to battle an expected increase in violence by Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan this spring.
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The United States is urging NATO allies to lift restrictions on the use of their forces in Afghanistan, casting it as matter of allied solidarity, a senior State Department official said.
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SEVILLE, Spain  - The United States stepped up pressure on NATO allies on Thursday to send more troops to Afghanistan to crush an expected Taliban offensive, saying the next few weeks would be pivotal in battling the insurgency.
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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 cabinet agreed to send Tornado jets to Afghanistan ahead of a NATO meeting at which the United States will press its allies to commit more troops to battle the Taliban.
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SEVILLE, Spain  - The United States stepped up pressure on NATO allies on Thursday to send more troops to crush an expected Taliban offensive, saying the next few weeks would be pivotal in battling the insurgency.
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NATO defence ministers were set Friday for a second day of contentious talks on Afghanistan amid calls led by the United States and Britain for more frontline combat troops to fight resurgent Taliban forces.
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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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NATO generals struggled Wednesday to persuade allies to provide an extra 2,000 troops urgently sought by commanders because of the ferocity of Taliban resistance to the alliance push into southern Afghanistan.