Nato concedes Afghan shortfalls
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Nato says it needs to do better in its operations in Afghanistan, after a rebuke from President Hamid Karzai.
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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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The Nato summit ends with pledges for a  boost in troop numbers in Afghanistan but fails to transform the alliance, says the BBC's Jonathan Marcus.
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NATO's top commander has said there were not enough international troops in Afghanistan to control the border and maintain the steady military presence needed to underpin reconstruction efforts.
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Nato can prevail in Afghanistan - but only if members boost their commitment, the alliance's head warns.
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The NATO force in Afghanistan does not have enough troops or equipment to secure advances made against Taliban insurgents and to guarantee a successful end to its mission, a lawmakers' report concluded on Friday.
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A helicopter from the NATO-led force in Afghanistan went down late Wednesday, causing casualties, the force said as the Taliban claimed to have shot down a chopper.
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No longer threatened by the Soviets, NATO is now a global force. But Afghanistan shows that the enlarged alliance is not comfortable in its new role
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- NATO nations failed to agree on calls by military commanders for 2,500 extra troops to help crush the growing Taliban-led insurgency in Afghanistan, where at least 50 people were killed yesterday in widespread violence.
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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.
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Seven NATO soldiers were killed when a helicopter came down in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, the NATO-led force said, after the Taliban claimed to have brought down the chopper.
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Nato's secretary general says a number of members have offered more military resources for Afghanistan.
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Britain warned that the credibility of NATO was at stake in Afghanistan after it was surprised by the strength of resisitance from the Taliban, the country's hardline former rulers.
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NATO said one of its helicopters went down in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday evening, and a Taliban spokesman claimed the militant group had shot it down.
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A top NATO alliance general said yesterday that Afghanistan's Taliban militia has lost its ability to control large swaths of territory, even if the hard-line Islamic movement remains strong in "small pockets" of the country.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- NATO forces killed more than 60 suspected insurgents in the last several days in an increasingly volatile southern Afghan province while suffering no casualties, the military alliance said yesterday .
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PORTOROZ, Slovenia, Sept. 28 -- NATO agreed Thursday to take command of military operations across all of insurgency-hit Afghanistan next month after the United States pledged to transfer 12,000 American troops in the country to the NATO force.