BRUSSELS (AFP) – The United States and NATO chiefs on Friday sought support for a new troop surge in Afghanistan aiming to defeat the Taliban and al-Qaeda, while pressuring the Afghan government to take charge of its own security.

After the United States ordered at least 30,000 extra troops to the war stricken country, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she was confident that allies would pull their weight in the operation. ''We're going... to have a number of public announcements to additional troop commitments, additional civilian assistance and development aid as well,'' she said heading for the Brussels meeting.

The US-led coalition needed ''more combat forces and more trainers, but there's not as big a distinction between those two,'' she added.

British Foreign Secretary David Miliband warned that a new impetus was needed in Afghanistan, eight years after the US-led coalition ousted the Taliban.

''We are now at a vital time, and we all know that in the 1990s Afghanistan was the incubator of international terrorism, the incubator of choice for global jihad,'' he told reporters.