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Google News - Top Stories (Free subscription) | yesterday
Globe and Mail NATO Chief: Allies Must Send More Troops to Afghanistan Voice of America NATO's secretary general says NATO member states must follow the lead of the United States and send more troops to Afghanistan. Anders Fogh Rasmussen told reporters in Berlin Thursday it is critically important that a US announcement of additional ... us allies must send more troops to Afghanistan: NATO Reuters...
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Sify (Free subscription) | yesterday
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Thursday that European states would have to send more troops to Afghanistan, as a scandal over civilian casualties in the country rocked the German government.
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Berlin- NATO must work harder in Afghanistan now if it wants to pull out sooner, the defence alliance's secretary general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, said in Berlin on Thursday. Paying his first official visit to the German capital in his new role, the D...
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The Torch (Free subscription) | yesterday
Further to this post , NATO/US "surge" in Afstan? the latest : U.S. Seeks 10,000 Troops From Its Allies in Afghanistan ... Germany and France have balked at committing any more forces to a war that has so little public support that they can barely maintain current troop levels. The Netherlands and Canada have begun discussing plans to pull out. Canadian defense officials told reporters traveling...
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People Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Wednesday wrote a letter to NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, saying that he was optimistic that more countries are expected to increase their troops deployed in Afghanistan. Earlier this month, Brown met with the NATO chief in London, focusing on Afghanistan and recent political developments in the country. The two leaders agreed that the international...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
PM paves way for US troop surge in Afghanistan, saying he has assurances from Nato countries Gordon Brown paved the way today for the announcement next Tuesday of a large US troop surge in Afghanistan by saying he had received assurances from Nato countries that they would contribute an extra 5,000 troops. The assurances are significant because both Brown and Barack Obama have said they will not commit...
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Mouth of the Potomac (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
As the inevitable leaks of President Obama’s new Afghanistan policy begin dribbling out, it’s becoming clear that at least some NATO allies will chip in with more troops, well-placed sources tell The Mouth. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs won’t say whether Obama formally plans to ask allies for more forces for Afghanistan, but there are backchannel discussions on that possibility....
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Military Times - News (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
LONDON — British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said today that several NATO nations will jointly offer 5,000 more troops for Afghanistan, as London and Washington push allies to take on a greater share of the war burden.Brown wrote to NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen to confirm that many of 10 other nations consulted by British officials in recent weeks have pledged to send reinforcements.“Following...
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Nasir Khan blog (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Morning Star Online , Monday 23 November 2009 Printable Email US troops occupy an Afghan village as local children look on NATO has called on allied nations to send more troops to Afghanistan in the run-up to President Barack Obama’s decision on whether to boost the US occupying forces. NATO secretary-general Anders Fogh Rasmussen is in the midst of intense talks on getting more troops, equipment...
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
KABUL — Bomb attacks and a firefight killed four U.S. service members in the past 24 hours in Afghanistan, NATO forces said Monday. Three of the Americans died in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, the military force said in a statement. Two of them were killed in a bomb attack and the third in a separate firefight. The military said the fourth U.S. service member died in the east Monday in a bomb...
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Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Barack Obama is expected to announce his long-delayed plans for a troop surge in Afghanistan next week with a promise of between 3,000 and 7,000 extra troops from Nato allies — including Britain, so as to stop this looking like America’s war. An announcement by the US president is anticipated before the meeting of Nato defence ministers in Brussels on December 3. American officials suggest...
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
After its Parliamentary Assembly's meeting in Edinburgh, NATO seems to have moved further closer to a final decision on troops surge in Afghanistan. Though no formal statement was issued at the end of the meeting, the speeches of NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and British Foreign Secretary David Miliband manifested what is on the mind of the alliance leaders. The five-day gathering, attended...
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Sify (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
A NATO withdrawal from Afghanistan would lead to a strengthening of al-Qaeda and cause instability to spread through the region, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Thursday in the Hungarian capital.
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Budapest - A NATO withdrawal from Afghanistan would lead to a strengthening of al-Qaeda and cause instability to spread through the region, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Thursday in the Hungarian capital. Rasmussen spoke of the...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Brussels - Hamid Karzai must rid his new administration of rampant corruption, NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Thursday as he hailed the Afghan president's second term as an historic event. On behalf of NATO, I congratulate President Karzai ...
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