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The Kosovo Security Force[b] (KSF) is the military of Kosovo. The KSF is tasked with defending the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Kosovo, military support for civilian authorities, and participation in international peacekeeping missions and operations. [1] Since 2018, it is in the process of transforming into the Kosovo Armed Forces ...
Insignia. Flag. 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 12 June 1999, [4] one day after the United Nations Security Council adopted the UNSC Resolution 1244.
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 ...
KLA suffers heavy losses, but wins the battle. [61] 19-20 May: 14 Yugoslav special forces killed in an ambush by KLA near Junik. 26 May: 2 Yugoslav policemen killed in an ambush by KLA in Tusus. 26-29 May: Tusus massacre. Serbian police kills 27 Albanian civilians. [62] 26 May-3 June: Battle of Pashtrik.
The Armed Forces of the Republic of Kosova (AFRK; Albanian: Forcat e Armatosura të Republikës së Kosovës, FARK) was a military of Republic of Kosova, paramilitary organization and military wing of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), the main right-wing party in Kosovo established by Ibrahim Rugova and Bujar Bukoshi.
The Ukrainian contingent in Kosovo is a unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as part of the international forces KFOR under the leadership of NATO, operating in the territory of Kosovo and Metohija from September 1, 1999 to today, the global goal of which is to achieve peace and stability in the region of conducting a peacekeeping operation. [1][2]
James Bissett, Canadian Ambassador to Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Albania, wrote in 2001 on the Toronto Star that media reports indicate that "as early as 1998, the Central Intelligence Agency assisted by the British Special Air Service were arming and training Kosovo Liberation Army members in Albania to foment armed rebellion in Kosovo ...
Due to the involvement of the United States armed forces, a separate US military decoration, known as the Kosovo Campaign Medal, was established by President Bill Clinton in 2000. The Kosovo Campaign Medal (KCM) is a military award of the United States Armed Forces established by Executive Order 13154 of President Bill Clinton on 3 May 2000 ...