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New Delhi: US President George W Bush won Britain's backing on Monday for tighter sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme and secured a British pledge to send more troops to Afghanistan.
Kandahar: Hundreds of Taliban fighters invaded villages just outside Afghanistan's second-largest city Monday, forcing NATO and Afghan troops to rush in while frightened residents fled.
NATO helicopters dropped leaflets on two Afghan villages asking residents to leave ahead of an operation to drive out hundreds of Taliban militants, residents and officials said Tuesday.
The heir to the Spanish throne, Crown Prince Felipe, made a surprise visit to Afghanistan on Tuesday, to meet with Spanish troops serving with NATO-led forces.
President Hamid Karzai's spokesman has said Afghanistan does not intend to go to war with Pakistan and that Karzai's warning to his eastern neighbour was meant only to make a strong point.
NATO-led Canadian forces were preparing an offensive on Taliban-held villages in Kandahar province, while insurgents were planting mines and destroying bridges to stop it, officials said Tuesday.