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North Atlantic Treaty Organisation-led international peacekeeping force
The United States maintains troops in Kosovo primarily as part of the NATO-led Kosovo Force (KFOR) mission to provide , with recent activity including aerial insertions, training and senior leader vis...
Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in 2008 and is recognised by a majority of UN member states and many international organisations, but Serbia continues to claim Kosovo as part of its territory...
Current, reliable reporting places the number of US personnel in Kosovo as , with two recent summaries citing about and respectively; older figures in the thousands are outdated and reflect past missi...
The United States contributes troops and capabilities to NATO’s Kosovo Force (KFOR) to help maintain a safe and secure environment, ensure freedom of movement, and act as a “third responder” after Kos...
Current publicly available reporting indicates the contribution to ’s Force () is modest—roughly 600 American service members embedded within a multinational contingent of about 4,600 troops—and those...
NATO’s legal basis for KFOR rests on UN Security Council Resolution 1244 and NATO’s subsequent deployment decisions; NATO states KFOR operates “under the authority of the United Nations,” and the miss...