France pledges 1,600 more troops for Lebanon
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France said on Thursday it was ready to   send an extra 1,600 troops to bolster a revamped U.N. force for   Lebanon, bringing the total French contingent to 2,000 and   making it easier to recruit other nations.
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France has ordered more troops to Ivory Coast to protect French citizens after nine French soldiers and a U.S. aid worker were killed in a government bombing raid and Ivory Coast troops fired on French forces.
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BEIRUT -- The French general commanding UN peacekeeping forces in Lebanon said yesterday his troops would not intervene to disarm Hezbollah, even as President Jacques Chirac of France said the militant group should not keep a military wing.
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The United States and France introduced a Security Council resolution Wednesday demanding that 20,000 Syrian troops "withdraw without delay" from Lebanon and that Syria stop meddling in the country's November elections. It threatens to consider unspecified "additional measures" against Syria to ensure compliance.
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France stepped up security Friday morning at a military hospital outside Paris where Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat will be taken for treatment.
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The UK is to send an extra 1,400 troops to Afghanistan, bringing total numbers up to 7,700, MPs are told.
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The European Union swept away a major hurdle to keeping the peace between Israel and Hezbollah by agreeing Friday to provide the "backbone" of a French-led peacekeeping force of 15,000 soldiers in Lebanon.
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Poland said on Thursday it would send  1,000 new troops to join its existing 100-strong contingent in  Afghanistan in response to NATO calls for reinforcements to  step up the fight against Taliban insurgents.
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France has no plans to pull its troops out of Afghanistan and will remain loyal to its allies serving in a multinational force there, Prime Minister Francois Fillon said Tuesday
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France has sent around 100 extra troops to the Central African Republic after a series of rebel attacks in the poor, landlocked country, which borders Sudan's violent Darfur region, the French military said on Thursday.
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The United Nations appealed to  Europeans on Friday to commit soldiers to the first wave of  3,500 troops for a U.N. force in Lebanon and the United States  urged France to be among the key contributors.
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Military aid began arriving Friday after the United States said it will rush supplies to the Lebanese army
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France is poised to dispatch hundreds of troops Monday to support the international peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon, confronting painful memories of the deadly 1983 bombing in Beirut and concerns about ...
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French soldiers landed in Lebanon on Saturday, the first reinforcements for an expanded U.N. peacekeeping force tasked with keeping the truce in the Israel-Hezbollah conflict.
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Syria's president said in remarks released Sunday that he has increased the number of troops on the border with Lebanon, a move apparently aimed to appease international demands to bolster security following the Israel-Hezbollah war.
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President Jacques Chirac announced Thursday that France will send 2,000 soldiers to southern Lebanon and hopes to retain command of the U.N. peacekeeping force, as a top European Union official said international troops could start deploying within days.
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Israel's government decided Thursday not to expand its battle with Hezbollah in southern Lebanon for now, but authorized the army to call up 30,000 reserve soldiers in case the fighting intensifies. Lebanese officials estimated a civilian death toll as high as 600.