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Credit: Reuters/Denis Sinyakov BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The United States and its NATO allies acknowledged on Friday that progress in the war in Afghanistan was tentative and that success in the nearly nine-year-old war was not yet assured, appealing for patience. World U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, had told alliance ministers at a closed-door meeting in Brussels that he was confident he would be able to show progress by year's end. However, Gates told a news conference that ministers also realized the road ahead would be "long and hard." "No one would deny that signs of progress are tentative at this point, that they are almost anecdotal," he told reporters. "Progress is being made, slowly, but steadily and sustainably," he added. "These gains will not come quickly or without high cost." NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen told the meeting of ministers in public remarks that the Taliban were putting up "fierce resistance" in their heartlands of Helmand and Kandahar provinces in the south. A statement by the ministers spoke of "measured progress" in extending the reach of the Afghan government and marginalizing the insurgency, but added: "Significant challenges remain, and success is not yet assured." Gates sounded frustrated that some were already second-guessing U.S. strategy. He said a new U.S. troop surge was only a few months old and needed time to work. "A counterinsurgency takes a good bit of time," he said. Rasmussen said NATO needed to step up its training effort to allow the handover of security responsibility to Afghan forces, hopefully slated to begin in some areas by the end of the year. He stressed that NATO's commitment would be long term. SLOWER KANDAHAR OPERATION The sober assessment of the difficulties facing a mission now involving nearly 140,000 foreign troops and worsening casualties came after McChrystal said a long-awaited campaign in the Taliban's birthplace of Kandahar would unfold more slowly than originally planned. Citing shortcomings that set back the last big U.S.-led offensive in neighboring Helmand province, McChrystal said on Thursday he wanted more time to shore up Afghan support for the campaign in Kandahar and to prepare local authorities to provide services when security improves. The decision to move more slowly on what has been billed as the biggest operation of the war adds to doubt about what can be achieved by this year's end, when the White House is holding a review and demanding signs of progress. Gates said gains would need to be seen by then in order to maintain public support for the war in NATO countries, which has eroded as the death toll has risen. At least 17 foreign troops have been killed this week. The massive military operation in Kandahar is the linchpin of McChrystal's strategy to turn the tide this year, using the bulk of 30,000 reinforcements sent by U.S. President Barack Obama in a final "surge" of extra troops announced in December. Obama embraced a counterinsurgency strategy devised by McChrystal last year that aims to push the Taliban from key population centres. But in agreeing to send McChrystal extra troops, the White House also set a goal of starting a gradual withdrawal in July 2011, making the next 12 months critical. Gates said the Kandahar operation would take "a number of months." "But if you talk to the people that have been there a while, you talk to the people that are on the ground and moving around the country as a whole, their view is the situation is slowly beginning to improve and that we are recapturing the initiative," he added. 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