U.S. Seeking Plan for NATO Taking Over Afghan Forces
689431
POIANA BRASOV, Romania  - Washington will ask NATO  to devise a blueprint by February to have the alliance take  over operations in Afghanistan, now split between an American  force and NATO contingent, officials said on Tuesday.
580824
NATO's top commander on Thursday urged allied nations to send reinforcements to southern Afghanistan, where resurgent Taliban militants are inflicting heavy casualties on foreign forces and have captured a remote town for the second time in two months.
170746
NATO countries signaled at a summit in Latvia on Tuesday they could free up more troops to battle Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan by easing restrictions on their forces in emergencies, officials said.
699733
PORTOROZ, Slovenia  - NATO nations agreed on   Thursday to assume command of peacekeeping across all of   insurgency-hit Afghanistan in the next few weeks, a NATO   spokesman said.
494906
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.
665647
NATO troops assumed command Monday of military operations in southern Afghanistan from the U.S.-led coalition, the coalition said.
431808
NATO is likely to begin military planning for a possible takeover of military operations in Afghanistan from US forces as early as next year, US Ambassador to NATO Nicholas Burns said today.
132305
PORTOROZ, Slovenia  - NATO agreed on Thursday to   take command of peacekeeping across all of insurgency-hit   Afghanistan next month after the United States pledged to   transfer an extra 12,000 troops to its force.
368459
CRAWFORD, Tex., May 21 -- President Bush vowed Monday to ask NATO allies to commit more troops and other resources to quell the Taliban resurgence in Afghanistan, calling the success of the alliance's mission there vital to the future security of both the United States and Europe.
11022
Territory in Afghanistan taken in battle by British troops may have to be retaken, the Nato commander warns.
565515
NATO will assume responsibility for  security across the whole of Afghanistan from Thursday when it  takes command in the east from U.S.-led coalition forces, a  senior NATO official said on Tuesday.
48569
In American military parlance, it's gut-check time for NATO in Afghanistan, and French President Nicolas Sarkozy appears ready to answer allies' calls for more forces to fight the Taliban and al-Qaida.
231948
US Defense Secretary Robert Gates arrived here Thursday for talks with allies on a three- to five-year master plan for a NATO-led force in Afghanistan, a senior US defense official said.
138023
The United States is pressing NATO to take over the U.S.-led military mission in Afghanistan, possibly as early as 2005, the U.S. ambassador to the alliance said Tuesday.
624698
NATO allies with troops on the frontline in Afghanistan agreed Friday to develop a master plan for efforts to stabilise the country over the next five years, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said.
521829
NATO defense ministers will on Sept. 28 examine a military proposal that will allow the alliance to rapidly complete its plans to take over command of all peacekeepers in Afghanistan, NATO officials said.Comment
348436
NATO allies with troops fighting in Afghanistan agreed Friday to develop a master plan for efforts to stabilise the country over the next five years, US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said.