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According to the Albanian Constitution, the Albanian Armed Forces are charged to: protect the territorial integrity of the country, be present in areas incurring menace, assist the population in case of natural and industrial disasters, warn the dangers of military and non-military nature, protect the constitutional order as it is determined by law and participate in international operations ...
The Special Operations Regiment (Albanian: Regjimenti i Operacioneve Speciale), [1] commonly known as B.O.S is the main special forces unit of the Albanian Armed Forces. It is the most elite unit of the Albanian Army. The unit is tasked with special operations in wartime, and primarily with counter-terrorism in peacetime.
Article 1. Any male Albanian citizen is obliged to perform military service according to the provisions of this law.; Article 2. Excluded from military service and cannot participate in the armed forces are those sentenced to life, as well as those who are sentenced to a punishment that entails the loss of civil rights, and the permanent loss of the right to serve State.
PR Albania victory. The Uprising is suppressed. Communist forces gain control of the Mirdita region. Albanian–Yugoslav border conflict (1948–1954) PR Albania: SFR Yugoslavia. Financial/Military support: United States. Albanian Victory. Pogradec Agreement; Withdrawal of the Yugoslav People's Army from the border with Albania; Expulsion of ...
Land Force was established on August 29, 2000, and included military units with traditions and rich multi-year activity, spread across the territory of the Republic of Albania. In 2000 the Land Force included five infantry divisions with 55 brigades and 300 battalions deployed in 167 different regions of the country.
Joint US Army and Albanian Special Operations Battalion patrol in Afghanistan. Land Force, in Zall-Herr [6] Staff Support Company, in Zall-Herr; Northern Infantry Regiment, in Vau i Dejës; Light Infantry Battalion, in Zall-Herr (assigned to NATO Response Force) Southern Infantry Battalion, in Poshnjë; Commando Battalion (Albania), in Zall-Herr
The military history of Iraq, due to a rich archaeological record, is one of the longest in written human history. The region of Iraq , which used to be Mesopotamia , has been referred to as the " cradle of civilization ", and wars of conquest have been recorded in this region as far back as the third millennium BC.
The Albanian People's Army (Albanian: Ushtria Popullore Shqiptare, UPSh) was the national army of the People's Socialist Republic of Albania from 1946 to 1990. Like the militaries of other Communist states, the UPSh was subjected to the nation's ruling party, in this case the Party of Labour of Albania.