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Kosovo's president Vjosa Osmani has warned that opening a bridge to traffic in the ethnically divided town of Mitrovica without NATO's coordination risks a conflict between police and U.S. troops.
PRISTINA (Reuters) -NATO is looking into a more permanent increase in the number of troops in the Western Balkans to keep tensions under control, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on ...
LEPOSAVIC, Kosovo (Reuters) - U.S. peacekeeping troops in Kosovo are well equipped and stand ready to prevent violence in the country's ethnically divided north, often the scene of armed clashes ...
Camp Bondsteel is the operation headquarters of the Kosovo Force (KFOR) in Kosovo.It is located near Ferizaj [3] in southeastern Kosovo. It is the Regional Command-East headed by the United States Army (U.S. Army) and it is supported by troops from Greece, Italy, Finland, Hungary, Poland, Slovenia, Switzerland and Turkey.
The initial US forces established their area of operation around the towns of Uroševac, the future Camp Bondsteel, and Gnjilane, at Camp Monteith, and spent four months – the start of a stay which continues to date – establishing order in the southeast sector of Kosovo. US soldiers escort a Serbian civilian from his home in Zitinje after ...
The incident at the Pristina airport was a military confrontation between the forces of Russia and NATO on 12 June 1999, following the end of the Kosovo War.Russian troops unexpectedly occupied the airport ahead of a planned NATO deployment, creating a tense stand-off.
A NATO top commander said Tuesday the alliance equipped its peacekeeping force in Kosovo with weapons of "combat power” following a recent shootout between masked Serb gunmen and Kosovo police ...
KFOR entered Kosovo on 12 June 1999, [6] one day after the United Nations Security Council adopted the UNSC Resolution 1244. At the time, Kosovo was facing a grave humanitarian crisis, with military forces from Yugoslavia in action against the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) in daily engagements. Nearly one million people had fled Kosovo as ...