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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Search Search: NATO boosts Afghan troops, names leader AFP - 22 minutes ago STRASBOURG (AFP) - - NATO leaders pledged thousands more troops for their Afghan mission Saturday and named the organisation's next leader, as violent anti-war demonstrations raged outside the summit. Britain, Spain and Italy said they would send hundreds of extra troops each to secure Afghanistan's key August presidential election, adding up to what the White House said was a total of "up to 5,000" personnel. The deal was a victory for new US President Barack Obama, who came to his first NATO summit to promote his new Afghan strategy and warn his allies that Europe would have to shoulder more of the war-fighting burden. "I am pleased that our NATO allies pledged their strong and unanimous support for our new strategy," Obama told reporters. Although France and Germany were not among the countries who made major new troop commitments, Obama praised President Nicolas Sarkozy and Chancellor Angela Merkel as the joint hosts of the 60th anniversary summit. "This summit and this alliance have delivered," outgoing NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer told reporters at the end of the gathering in Strasbourg. According to Scheffer, in addition to boosting coalition force numbers, the various member states have agreed to provide more training teams for Afghan forces and to set aside more funding for the Afghan army. Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said Spain would send 450 troops, Britain's Gordon Brown promised "hundreds" and Silvio Berlusconi said Italy's contingent would increase to "around 3,000" from around 2,300 now. Meanwhile, the alliance confirmed that Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen will be the next NATO secretary general, despite two days of tense talks to persuade Turkey not to veto his nomination. "Everyone is fully convinced that Anders Fogh Rasmussen is the best choice for the alliance," Scheffer said, while admitting that there had been long discussions on the issue. "An agreement was found," he said. Rasmussen said he was deeply honoured to be the first Dane to lead the Atlantic alliance and to have been named at the 60th anniversary summit. He will take over from Scheffer on August 1. The Danish leader had long been seen as the favourite to take over the job, but his nomination was called into question when Turkey -- which could have vetoed the decision -- raised objections at the summit. Ankara had not forgiven Rasmussen for defending a Danish newspaper's right to court controversy in 2005 by printing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, nor for refusing a Turkish request that he close a Kurdish television channel. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he had received "guarantees" from President Obama about the Danish PM's nomination. While the last-minute deal on Rasmussen put smiles on the faces on those inside the summit venue, outside police battled with hundreds of hardcore anti-war demonstrators determined to disrupt the summit events. Hardliners from the so-called Black Blocks set fire to the ground floor of a hotel near the summit venue, during clashes between militants armed with rocks and iron bars and a 10,000-strong force of riot police. S ome 100 masked demonstrators armed with metal bars also wrecked a chapel, a pharmacy, an empty police post and other buildings at the French end of the Europe bridge connecting Strasbourg with Germany. They daubed on the roof a quotation from French writer Victor Hugo, "Religion is nothing but the shadow cast by the universe upon human intelligence." The rioters emerged from a larger group of demonstrators -- 30,000 according to organisers, 10,000 according to the police -- who chanted "NATO means war! 60 years is enough!" and, in a swipe at Obama's campaign slogan, "Quit Iraq and Afghanistan. Yes We Can." 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