Rice: NATO may seek more Afghan forces
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday she will raise with Afghanistan's U.S.-backed president the case of an Afghan reporter sentenced to death for insulting Islam, a case that has not drawn the same wide U.S. outrage or administration intervention as one involving a Muslim condemned to death for converting to Christianity.
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The United States will urge European allies to help speed up a long-promised expansion of Nato's peacekeeping mission in Afghanistan at a meeting of defence ministers starting Wednesday, diplomats said.
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates  told Europe on Sunday it must boost defense spending and commit  more troops and money to Afghanistan if NATO is to remain a  potent military alliance.
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NATO allies must fulfill their  commitment to the future stability of Afghanistan by  dispatching more troops to fight insurgents, Washington's  ambassador to the alliance said on Wednesday.
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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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Top diplomat Condoleezza Rice Wednesday played down fears that Afghanistan could become a lost cause but admitted the United States was in a "bumpy" bid to press more allies into sharing the burden there.
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NATO allies must fulfill their   commitment to the future stability of Afghanistan by upping   their fighting capability and putting more troops on the   ground, Washington's ambassador to the alliance said on   Wednesday.
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By Kristin RobertsPORTOROZ, Slovenia - NATO states will probably offer more troops and equipment to meet shortfalls in Afghanistan when their defense ministers meet on Thursday, but holes will remain, a U.S. ...Comment
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EYES AND EARS: NATO's top military commander said Monday there is a need for more intelligence-gathering and surveillance systems for the fight in Afghanistan.
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates will press NATO nations on Thursday to provide military and police trainers for Afghanistan and also plans to express interest in Russia's offer to cooperate on missile defense.
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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 is to expand its peacekeeping mission in Afghanistan with more troops being sent to western regions.
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NATO military authorities told allied defence ministers that two more battalions and support forces are needed to put down a Taliban-led insurgency in Afghanistan, officials said.
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice flew in to London Wednesday to discuss the stakes in Afghanistan as the United States and Britain pressed their allies to do more to crush a resurgent Taliban.
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The United States will press its European NATO allies to send more troops to Afghanistan's violent south in response to Canada's call for reinforcements, but the Pentagon said it will not commit any more of its own forces there.
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SEVILLE, Spain  - NATO's top operational commander will urge the alliance on Thursday to step up efforts to crush an expected Taliban offensive in Afghanistan but many allies remain reluctant to come forward, officials said.
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President George W. Bush said on Thursday 3,200 more U.S. troops being deployed to Afghanistan will help NATO forces launch a spring offensive against the Taliban.