Army General Stanley McChrystal has drafted a separate request spelling out how many more troops he needs.
Israel and the Palestinians accused each other on Monday of thwarting U.S. efforts to revive peace negotiations.
Israeli and Palestinian diplomats said earlier this week that a trilateral meeting in New York seemed likely.
A suspected suicide bomber killed 14 people in northwest Pakistan on Friday in an explosion on a road.
Sixteen people died in the attack on an Italian military convoy near the place where Karzai held a news conference.
The U.S. and Israel ended another round of talks with no sign yet of a deal on a West Bank settlement freeze.
The announcement by EU suggesting fraud came hours before authorities were due to issue a preliminary final tally.
An Iraqi reporter who hurled his shoes at U.S. President George W. Bush was released from prison on Tuesday.
U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell began talks on Tuesday with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Solana said Western policy remained “twin track”—to offer incentives to Iran to abandon its nuclear programme.