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Reports from southern Sudan say up to 50 people have been killed during three days of internal fighting among troops of the national army.

British military officials say one of their soldiers has been killed in Afghanistan by a suspected member of the Afghan National Army.

Foreign donors failed to plan how to integrate tens of thousands of gunmen into a national army.

But at least building a national army is now high on their agenda.

Soon insurgencies were multiplying, fuelled by drugs, warlords, local resentments, a weak national army and police and a recovering Taliban.

America agrees, but only if the deployment of blue helmets is matched by an effort to build a new Somali national army.

The idea of a British army ever again confronting a national army of a hostile state, or groups of insurgents, in the open is anachronistic.

The strongest military force in Lebanon is not the national army but the militia run by Hizbullah, which is part of the opposition.

Programs underway include training the Afghan National Army and police, as well as building capacity in Afghan government ministries.

After capturing four pickup trucks from the Afghan National Army, the Taliban took them to Kabul to be used in suicide bombings.

The Iraqi national army and police will get stronger, holding off the insurgents if not actually defeating them.

Khanal said that the Maoist soldiers should give up the party membership after they are integrated into the national army.

In this picture, Afghan National Army officers march during a graduation ceremony at a military training centre in Kabul.

Cheryl also spent time with members of the Afghan national army, as well as our own British troops.

at which the international community called for progress on state-building, tackling corruption and training the Afghan National Army (ANA).

China has also assisted in developing the Afghan national army by providing military assistance and personnel training.

The rebels are not a national army and their units remain local, focused on liberating places they know.

Rebels, with no former jobs to return to, may be given the option of joining a national army.

"A central part of our strategy is to train the Afghan National Army so that they are taking the lead, " Obama said.

These recruits to the Afghan National Army (ANA) now carry out many patrols without any help from NATO soldiers.

It used the Libyan National Army, the armed division of the NFSL to begin this failed uprising.

The national army is little more than a collection of militias and obeys no central command.

Minister of Defense Ram Bahadur Thapa has said that a new 'national army' would be formed after army integration.

The "national army" includes brigands who even this week were stealing food aid.

He also raised objections at efforts to 'politicise' national army.

Afghan National Army now numbers about 15 million people, is expected to reach 17 million during the year.

The Afghan National Army and police are supposed to step into the breach.

The Afghan national army and police both enjoy high levels confidence with 93 and 83 percent respectively, despite concerns about security.

That happened to the national army which the Russians left behind after their retreat from Afghanistan in 1989.

But the Afghan National Army (ANA) remains deeply troubled.

Nobody troubled about forging a national army.

A new national army has yet to be built.

He claims still to want to join the national army, but his influence has spread across North Kivu.

Afghan National Army soldiers ride in a Marine Corps helicopter over Helmandprovince on Dec.

The government has renamed the national army to create an impression of unity.

In September 2009, only 800 young men joined the Afghan National Army.

We will also help the Afghan government increase the size of the National Army from 32, 000 people today to 70, 000 by the end of 2008.

"Sir, I am confident we can train and hand over to the ANA [Afghan National Army] in that time frame, " Petraeus said.

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