Military

The total number of the "neutralized" militants in northern Syria since the ongoing Turkey-led Operation Euphrates Shield was launched last Aug., is at least 2,085, according to the latest data of the Turkish military. 

1,775 of these neutralized are ISIL militants, the weekly statement of the Turkish general staff said. 

Turkey hopes the new U.S. administration will change its policy of cooperation with the People's Protection Units (YPG) in Syria, Turkish Defense Minister Fikri Işık said on Jan. 12.

He reiterated that he believed the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) was a "terrorist organization."

BELGRADE - The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee has approved a resolution supporting Montenegro's membership in NATO, sending it to the full Senate for a vote.

The committee backed the small Balkan state's bid to join the military alliance last year, but it did not come up for a vote in the full Senate, where a two-thirds majority is required for approval of new NATO members.

US tanks and armoured fighting vehicles have started arriving in Poland.

This is part of the decision of Barack Obama in response to growing concerns of NATO member-states with respect to Russian behavior.

Over 3,500 soldiers have been deployed. This marks the largest US military presence in Europe over the last several decades.

Sunni Arab tribal fighters trained by Turkey at a camp in northern Iraq have proven their battlefield mettle, the United States said Jan. 11. 

The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved a resolution on Wednesday supporting Montenegro's accession to NATO, in a second attempt to push the Balkan's country membership bid.

The committee passed a resolution in December 2016, but the full Senate did not reach consensus on Montenegro before the end of the year.

We thought we would finally get some peace after the collapse of the communist system in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. We were mistaken.

At least 11 Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants were killed in northern Syria in the last 24 hours as part of Turkey's ongoing Euphrates Shield operation, according to a Turkish General Staff statement released on Jan. 11. 

Turkey and Iraq have agreed that Turkish troops will withdraw from the Bashiqa camp in northern Iraq after the end of the Mosul offensive, but Baghdad wants the camp to immediately be turned over to Iraq, Iraqi Ambassador to Ankara Hisham al-Allawi said.

Rajko Krickovic, a retired soldier from the Croatian Army’s 118th Home Guard Regiment, went on trial for war crimes committed after Croatia military’s Operation Storm in August 1995.