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Kosovo Force
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North Atlantic Treaty Organisation-led international peacekeeping force
Key facts
- Founded
- 11 June 1999 ; 26 years ago ( 1999-06-11 )
- Type
- Command
- Role
- NATO peacekeeping
- Size
- 5,249 military personnel
- Part of
- NATO , UNMIK
- Nickname
- KFOR
- Engagements
- Yugoslav Wars
- Website
- jfcnaples.nato.int/kfor
- Commander
- Major general Özkan Ulutaş , Turkish Armed Forces
- Deputy commander
- Brigade-general Cahit İrican , Turkish Armed Forces
- Chief of staff
- RDML Maximilian Clark , US Navy
- Command sergeant major
- Command sergeant major Ahmet Cemalettin Tokur , Turkish Armed Forces
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Wikidata facts
- Headquarters
- Kosovo
- Location
- Kosovo and Metohija
- Conflict
- North Kosovo crisis
- Official website
- jfcnaples.nato.int/kfor
- Image
- Coat of arms of the Kosovo Force.svg
- Organizer
- United Nations Security Council
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- applies to jurisdiction
- Kosovo
- Commons gallery
- KFOR
- topic's main category
- Category:United Nations Mission in Kosovo
- Commons category
- KFOR (Kosovo Force)
- inception
- 1999-00-00
- operating area
- Kosovo
- allegiance
- NATO
- native label
- Kosovo Force
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Encyclopedic overview
Iveco Trakker truck used by the KFOR in 2024 The Kosovo Force (KFOR) is a NATO-led international peacekeeping force and military of Kosovo. KFOR is the third security responder, after the Kosovo Police and the EU Rule of Law (EULEX) mission, respectively, with whom NATO peacekeeping forces work in close coordination. Its operations are gradually reducing until the Kosovo Security Force, established in 2009, becomes self-sufficient.
KFOR entered Kosovo on 12 June 1999, one day after the United Nations Security Council adopted the UNSC Resolution 1244. At the time, Kosovo was facing a grave humanitarian crisis, with the Yugoslav Army in action against the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) in daily engagements. Nearly one million people had fled Kosovo as refugees by that time, many of whom left permanently.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kosovo Force” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.