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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.
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.
On 26 May 2023, Kosovo Police forcefully took control of the municipal buildings of four Serb majority regions in Northern Kosovo after a local election was held. [6] Three days later on 29 May 2023, hundreds of Serbian protesters clashed with NATO peacekeeping troops after rally at city hall in the town of Zvečan in Northern 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 ...
BANJSKA, Kosovo (Reuters) - A battle between police and armed men holed up in a monastery turned a quiet village in northern Kosovo into a war zone, residents and police said on Wednesday, in the ...
NATO retains 3,700 troops in Kosovo, the remainder of an original 50,000-strong force deployed in 1999. The area of north Kosovo where Serbs form a majority is in important ways a virtual ...
Camp Monteith is a Kosovo Security Force base in Gjilan, Kosovo, about 20 miles (32 km) east of Camp Bondsteel.A former Yugoslav artillery outpost and 79 parcels of private land, the area was taken over by U.S. Marines and used as a base of operation during the Kosovo War of 1999.
A NATO bombing campaign on Serb positions in Kosovo led to the end of the 1998-99 war. ... KFOR has around 4,500 troops stationed in Kosovo, where ethnic Serbs are concentrated in four northern ...