NATO begins Afghan spring offensive in Helmand
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NATO began its spring offensive against the Taliban on Tuesday, launching its biggest attacks since the 2001 war on Taliban rebels and Afghan drug lords.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) reinforced its security forces in Afghanistan Friday as part of international efforts to safeguard the presidential election on October 9.
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NATO launched its biggest offensive in Afghanistan since the 2001 war on Tuesday, targetting the Taliban and drug lords as hundreds of people rallied in the east against U.S. soldiers killing civilians.
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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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The commander of British forces in Afghanistan says Nato troops have won a tactical victory in Helmand.
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NATO began its spring offensive against the Taliban on Tuesday, launching its biggest offensive since the 2001 war targeting the rebels and drug lords.
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NATO assumed responsibility for security across the whole of insurgency-hit Afghanistan on Thursday when it took command in the east of the country from a U.S.-led coalition force.
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Voting has begun in Afghanistan for the first direct presidential election in the country's history.
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Thousands of Afghan and foreign security forces kicked off a major new offensive against the Taliban in eastern Afghanistan as a NATO-led operation wound down in the south.
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A top Taliban commander said Wednesday the group has 4,000 fighters bracing to rebuff NATO's largest-ever offensive in southern Afghanistan, now in its second day. Suicide bombers are ready, land mines have been planted and helicopters will be targeted, Mullah Abdul Qassim, a top Taliban commander in Helmand province told The Associated Press.
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NATO forces launched a new military operation Wednesday in Afghanistan's most violent southern province, while the alliance said it was investigating a shipment of weapons intercepted near the border with Iran this month.
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The Taliban will launch an offensive within months once the snows melt, but they are effectively a beaten force, according to the outgoing head of NATO forces in Afghanistan.
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As Afghanistan prepares to swear in its first popularly elected president, Afghan and US forces are launching a winter operation to contain anti-government insurgents threatening the new government.
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One soldier dead and two others injured after operation with Afghan troops in Helmand province.
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Nato-led troops in southern Afghanistan say they have killed up to 10 militants in Helmand province.
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RIGA, Latvia, Nov. 29-- NATO leaders on Wednesday declared that securing peace and security in Afghanistan is now the "key priority" for the alliance formed to combat Soviet military power in the Cold War, signaling a new political embrace of a mission that has divided member nations over how to...
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Signs of a new spring offensive by Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan have begun to emerge, but NATO commanders are still short more than 1,000 combat troops, despite repeated requests to allied nations, the top commander said Friday.