Nato Afghan troops talks continue
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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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MONS, Belgium  - NATO's top operational commander said on Wednesday its force in Afghanistan faced troop shortages and diplomats doubted whether an alliance summit next week would plug the gaps.
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NATO defense ministers were under pressure Thursday to find more troops for the alliance mission in Afghanistan ahead of an expected surge in fighting with the Taliban when the snow melts this spring.
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Defense chiefs from NATO's 26 nations  agreed on Saturday they needed more troops and fewer  limitations on the use of their forces to step up the fight  against insurgents in the violent south of Afghanistan.
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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.
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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.
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi held talks Sunday with President Hamid Karzai and the commander of a NATO force involved in an international effort against Afghanistan's growing and deadly insurgency.
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NATO's plans to send more soldiers to Afghanistan to quell a resurgent Taliban would simply give the rebels more targets, a guerrilla commander said on Thursday.
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Nato-led forces in Afghanistan say they have killed more Taleban, as generals discuss boosting forces there.
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Nato states meet in Belgium to discuss who will provide 2,500 reinforcements for its mission in Afghanistan.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai renewed a call for talks with Taliban insurgents on Sunday, shortly after a security scare forced him to cut short a commemoration speech when gunshots were fired outside the venue.
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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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U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates will press NATO nations to provide military and police trainers for Afghanistan and explore Russia's offer to cooperate on missile defense at talks in Brussels on Thursday.
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates has asked NATO allies and colleagues for more effort in Afghanistan, but it is too early to tell whether his lobbying will pay off.
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Leaders of the 26 NATO nations failed to agree today on President BushÂs demand that member countries with troops in Afghanistan lift their restrictions on how the troops are used.
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NATO pledged on Wednesday to stay the course to restore peace and stability in Afghanistan at a summit where nations offered guarded concessions to improve the mobility of allied forces battling Taliban insurgents.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai, right, talks with US Gen. James L. Jones, left, in the presence of the Supreme Allied Commander Europe, NATO senior civilian representative for Afghanistan, Hikmet Cetin, center