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The statue of former OSCE mission chief William Walker will be installed in January in the village of Recak/Racak in central Kosovo, where 45 ethnic Albanian civilians, including elderly people and children, were massacred by Serbian forces.

During a Fox TV interview on Dec. 21, retired Gen. Raymond Odierno said that because of the "passive" strategy of U.S. President Barack Obama against terrorism, Russia had gained leadership in the Middle East.

Russia will supply Serbia with fighter jets, tanks and combat vehicles, AP has reported, cited by Tanjug.

The U.S. military has officially ended operations in a former Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) bastion in Libya, officials announced Dec. 20.

The Pentagon had launched Operation Odyssey Lightning to help local forces push the jihadists from the coastal city of Sirte on Aug. 1.

Condolences have poured in for Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov who was assassinated by a police officer at an art exhibition in Ankara on Dec. 19.

British Foreign Minister Boris Johnson and the country's envoy to Ankara, Richard Moore, took to Twitter to denounce the killing, saying that their "thoughts are with his family."      

Special relations with the U.S: and close cooperation with EU and NATO and Kosovo’s "neighboring countries" represent "the essence of Kosovo's foreign policy."

Kosovo President Hashim Thaci said this on Monday in Pristina at the the Conference of Ambassadors.

The European Commission expressed "concern" on Monday over the "tensions and the negative rhetoric" present in Macedonia in the past few days.

Spokesperson Maja Kocijancic called on the country's political players to "act responsibly" so that people's faith in Macedonia's institutions and in the democratic processes is restored.

World leaders and other members of the international community have expressed their condolences and condemnation following the Dec. 17 car bomb attack in the Central Anatolian province of Kayseri which killed 14 soldiers and wounded 56 others.

The United States condemned the "cowardly attack," showing solidarity with the country against terror.

On Nov. 24, 2015, two Turkish F-16 fighter jets won the title of shooting down, from NATO's side, the first ever Soviet-Russian military warplane since the end of World War II, saying it violated Turkish airspace along the country's border with Syria. The Russian pilot of the fighter jet was killed.

BELGRADE - According to a classified NATO document published by a Croatian newspaper on Wednesday, the alliance is ready to interfere in the Balkans to prevent an ethnic conflict and check Russia's growing role in the region.