US Soldiers Deploy to Kosovo Amid Enduring Tensions
Stars and Stripes | 13 Jul 2017 | by Martin Egnash
GRAFENWOEHR, Germany -- A battalion-size unit of National Guardsmen is joining the NATO force in Kosovo, 18 years after the war that led the alliance to assume responsibility for security in the former Serbian province.
The peacekeeping mission, the longest in NATO history, has taken on renewed significance in recent months after a series of spats between Kosovo and Serbia, which does not recognize the independence of the mainly Albanian-inhabited region of 2 million people.
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