U.N. renews NATO troop mandate in Afghanistan
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The U.N. Security Council authorized NATO-led troops to stay in Afghanistan for another year on Wednesday and gave the Japanese government support in its domestic dispute over refueling U.S. and other ships in the Indian Ocean.
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A plan approved Thursday to extend NATO's military control across all of Afghanistan would put as many as 12,000 U.S. troops under foreign battlefield command, a number that U.S. officials said could be the most since World War II.
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Britain may increase the number of troops it has in Afghanistan, according to a Nato spokesman.
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The U.N. Security Council agreed Wednesday to an Iraqi request to extend the mandate of the U.S.-led multinational force after the country's foreign minister said the troops were "vitally necessary."
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NATO foreign ministers December 9 reiterated the alliance's commitment to peace, stability and democracy in Afghanistan, to expanding training assistance for Iraq, and to maintaining a robust presence in ...
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KABUL - NATO-led peacekeepers and US-led forces in Afghanistan are stepping up security for Tuesday&#39;s swearing in ceremony for President Hamid Karzai in Kabul.
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The United States urged NATO countries on Wednesday to assume a bigger role in Afghanistan and to come up with a plan to take over all military operations there, possibly as early as next year.
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The United States and Britain, the nations with the most troops fighting in Afghanistan, made a renewed push Thursday to portray the war as winnable and worthy of international support despite a so-far-unsuccessful struggle to get more allies to commit frontline forces.
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KABUL -- Four years after NATO began an expanded mission in Afghanistan, members of the 26-nation alliance are divided over anti-drug and reconstruction policies, rising civilian casualties and what some say is heavy-handed U.S. leadership, according to interviews with military officials and dipl...
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NATO will soon assume direct control over most military operations in Afghanistan, a move that will place 12,000 more U.S. troops under its authority, a spokesman for the alliance said Sunday.
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The government is to announce that it will send up to 1,000 extra troops to Afghanistan, sparking claims that it is being forced to take up the slack from its NATO allies.
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The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Thursday to extend the U.N. mission in East Timor for a year and beef up the international police force ahead of upcoming elections.
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The UN Security Council votes to extend the mandate of the multinational force in Iraq for another year.
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UNITED NATIONS  - The UN Security Council voted unanimously Friday to extend the authorization for the NATO-led security force in Afghanistan through October 2005.
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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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The U.N. Security Council voted  on Tuesday to extend the mandate of U.S.-led foreign forces in  Iraq for one year, as requested by Iraq for what Baghdad said  was the last time.
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The German Cabinet on Wednesday approved a one-year extension to the country's increasingly unpopular role in the NATO mission in Afghanistan, a decision that must now be passed by parliament.