CNN reports: President Barack Obama on Saturday said he is “pleased that our NATO allies pledged their strong and unanimous support” for the new U.S. strategy toward fighting militants in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Obama spoke at the end of a two-day NATO summit in Strasbourg, France. One of the main topics of discussion was the war against

Barack Obama's Nato allies yesterday pledged about 7,000 additional troops as part of a fresh military surge in Afghanistan. The offers of additional troops were made at Nato headquarters amid strong pressure from Washington on the Alliance to help "turn the tide" against the Taliban.

Barack Obama will announce a new strategy for Afghanistan that will include sending another 4,000 troops and hundreds of new civilian officials to the war-torn country

Gordon Brown has arrived at the NATO summit with an offer of up to 1000 extra troops to go to Afghanistan on a temporary mission to ensure the August elections there go smoothly. This peace keeping role would be carried out in the South. Officials say the numbers sent would be “mid-late hundreds”. Britain already has over 8000 troops in Afghanistan as part of the NATO force – the...

Everyone following developments in Afghanistan will know of the demand by military commanders on the ground for more international troops to be deployed. A former NATO commander said he needed at least 400,000 troops. Doctrinally, a 20:1,000 security force-to-population ratio is deemed necessary for counter-insurgency operations. That would mean putting at least 200,000 troops into the southern an...

That was quick: ABC News has learned that Defense Secretary Robert Gates has decided to delay a decision to send additional troops into Afghanistan until after the Obama administration concludes its ongoing review of the strategy for Afghanistan. The surprising decision comes after the much anticipated proposal to send three additional combat brigades to Afghanistan -- or 17,000 troops as reported...

The US today urged Nato allies to bear more of the burden in Afghanistan, saying the change of administration in the White House offered fresh impetus to do so. The defence secretary, Robert Gates, who is making his first overseas trip since Barack Obama took office last month, will ask European governments to send additional troops to Afghanistan, at least for short stints, prior to the country&#...

Asked if there would be an announcement on Afghanistan troop numbers at the NATO Summit, the PMS said that we had not had a request from any of our NATO partners to put in additional troops. This was something that would be kept under review. Asked if the subject would come up when the Prime Minister met President Obama, the PMS said that they would discuss Afghanistan among other issues but the m...

As Peter Hitchens explains: We must pull our troops out of Afghanistan. It is no good waiting for the Americans to lift us off this hook. They will leave, too, in the end, but they do not know it yet. It takes quite a nerve for us to claim we are fighting terror and promoting civilisation in Afghanistan, when we have been beaten hollow by the IRA in Ulster, when we cannot prevent deaths like that ...

As former Soviet President, Michael Gorbachev, warns that NATO cannot win in Afghanistan, the Washington Post has published a damning assessment by US military intelligence that shows that NATO are making no real progress in the war. It is a sign of NATO’s desperation that the press has been misleadingly reporting that Russian troops will now