NATO to cut Kosovo peacekeeper numbers
Turkish soldiers, serving in a NATO peacekeeping mission in Kosovo (KFOR), patrol near the town of Zubin Potok on December 2, 2024. (AFP)
NATO said on June 12 it will cut troop numbers in its peacekeeping mission in Kosovo as the security situation has improved.
The KFOR mission — currently 4,600-strong — has been stationed in Kosovo since the end of the 1998-1999 war between ethnic Albanian separatists and Serbian forces.
"The current conditions provide an opportunity to optimize KFOR's size and posture further," U.S. General Alexus Grynkewich, NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe, said.
