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Women in Kosovo have also become active in politics and law enforcement in the Republic of Kosovo. An example of which is the election of Atifete Jahjaga as the fourth President of Kosovo [a] . She was the first female, [2] the first non-partisan candidate, and the youngest to be elected to the office of the presidency in the country.
Of the 203 women in uniform in the Security Force, 21 are officers; the highest ranking woman in the Security Force is a Major-general Irfete Spahiu. According to the Law on the Kosovo Security Force, KSF can have up to 5,000 active soldiers and up to 3,000 reservists, but it allows the Force to recruit above that number based on strategic ...
Kosovo Force. The emblem of KFOR, which contains the Latin and Cyrillic scripts. The Kosovo Force ( KFOR) is a NATO -led international peacekeeping force in Kosovo. [2] Its operations are gradually reducing until Kosovo's Security Force, established in 2009, becomes self-sufficient. [3] KFOR entered Kosovo on 11 June 1999, [4] one day after the ...
Modern equipment of the Kosovo Security Force is a list of the equipment currently in use with the Kosovo Security Force. It includes small arms, combat vehicles, drones, light artillery and transport vehicles. Its main mission is the defense of the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Republic of Kosovo, military support ...
Security forces gunned down 19 people in the town of Podujevo, killing 14 people and injuring 5, whom were children : Ljubižda massacre: 31 March 1999 near Prizren, Kosovo 14 Serbian forces Albanian civilians Security forces reportedly shot 14 men in the village of Ljubižda, northwest of Prizren. Pusto Selo massacre: 31 March 1999
The Kosovo War ( Albanian: Lufta e Kosovës, Serbian: Косовски рат, Kosovski rat) was an armed conflict in Kosovo that lasted from 28 February 1998 until 11 June 1999. [56] [57] [58] It was fought between the forces of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (i.e. Serbia and Montenegro), which controlled Kosovo before the war, and the ...
Armenia joined the Kosovo Force in Kosovo in 2004. Armenian "blue helmets" serve within the Greek Army battalion. The relevant memorandum was signed on 3 September 2003, in Yerevan and ratified by the Armenian Parliament on 13 December 2003. The sixth deployment of Armenian peacekeepers departed for Kosovo on 14 November 2006.
Professional career. Before her studies, she was part of the first generation of journalists with the founding of the Kosovar daily Koha Ditore. During 1997 and 1998 she covered and reported widely on the war in Kosovo. From 2001 to 2007 Kraja was The Associated Press correspondent in Prishtina, where she reported on the aftermath of the war ...