France mulls greater role in Afghanistan
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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.
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Afghanistan should have a greater say in spending billions of dollars of aid money, its foreign minister said at the start of a conference on reconstruction of the war-ravaged country.
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Canada sends a high-level delegation to Paris to sound out a possible offer of military help in Afghanistan.
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France is quietly preparing to play a tougher role in the strengthened U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon, rolling out hefty tanks, powerful artillery, and sophisticated radar systems to pinpoint artillery ...
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Nato is to expand its peacekeeping mission in Afghanistan with more troops being sent to western regions.
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France and Germany spoke out Wednesday against a US proposal to put NATO in charge of the military and reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan, but US and other officials
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Leaders of France, Australia and Italy traveled to Afghanistan over the weekend to meet with President Hamid Karzai and visit troops stationed in the conflict-ridden country.
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Afghanistan called on Tuesday for more help to stamp out opium production as donor nations gathered in Tokyo to try to coordinate policy on the struggling nation.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrived in Kabul on Saturday on a suprise trip to Afghanistan, with plans to meet his country's troops here and the Afghan president.
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France is considering sending forces to join the fight against the Taliban in southern Afghanistan and planned talks Friday with Canadian officials requesting 1,000 troops to support its beleaguered soldiers in volatile Kandahar province.
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Australia is considering sending more troops to Afghanistan to counter resurgent Taliban and Al-Qaeda fighters, Defence Minister Brendan Nelson said Thursday.
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Countries with troops in southern Afghanistan will discuss on Friday how to tackle rising violence by Taliban insurgents and mounting U.S. calls for bigger contributions to NATO's Afghan mission.
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Nato chiefs are to meet again to decide who will supply extra troops and equipment for Afghanistan.
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Canada sent senior officials to Paris on Friday to sound out the French government on a possible offer of support for 2,500 Canadian troops in southern Afghanistan, officials said.
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France called on Thursday for a  better, more balanced relationship with Washington as  diplomatic ties between the two recover slowly after they  soured over Iraq.
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Europe should deploy more troops to the dangerous southern regions of Afghanistan, Australia's foreign minister said Friday, as the country mourned its second soldier killed there in three weeks.
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NATO defense ministers discussed a US-backed proposal on Wednesday to merge Afghan peacekeeping and anti-terrorism operations under a joint command, despite criticism of the plan by Germany and France.