EU troops set for Bosnia swap
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The BBC's Nick Hawton looks at the task ahead for the European troops preparing to take over from Nato's SFor in Bosnia.
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The EU is due to begin is largest peacekeeping operation, taking over from the Nato mission in Bosnia.
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The US peacekeeping mission in Bosnia comes to an end, a week before Nato hands its peace mission over to the EU.
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Just over nine years after it first deployed troops to help bring an end to the civil war in Bosnia, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is winding up its peacekeeping operations here and making way for a ...
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The EU is looking to send up to  1,000 police, judges and other law enforcement personnel to  Kosovo once the future of the U.N.-administered province of  Serbia is settled, an EU official said on Tuesday.
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NATO peacekeepers once patrolled this Bosnian Serb rebel stronghold in armored personnel carriers, but the town is now so calm an EU force taking over on Thursday could monitor it from the bar.
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The government is Thursday expected to announce that it will withdraw its remaining 600 soldiers from Bosnia following the European Union's confirmation that it would cut the number of peacekeepers there.
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The European Union says it will withdraw about 60% of its forces from Bosnia in the coming months.
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The European Union plans to open a mission in Iraq after the country&#39;s first free elections slated for January, to help train police, legal officials and administrators, EU foreign ministers said yesterday.
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European Union and NATO  defense chiefs on Thursday mapped out plans for steering the  breakaway Serbian province of Kosovo through a tense period  while ensuring a future exit strategy for their armies.
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European Union nations will make a renewed attempt Wednesday to raise troops for a U.N. peacekeeping force in south Lebanon, but many remain wary of committing soldiers without safeguards to ensure they don't get sucked into the Middle East conflict.
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The European Union is likely to  announce a contribution of more than 100 million euros to an  African Union force in Darfur, amid calls for extra AU soldiers  to be deployed in Sudan's troubled region.
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A European Union force yesterday took over peacekeeping in Bosnia from Nato for an operation seen as a test of the EU&#39;s military aspirations and credibility.
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EU defense ministers will sign off today on plans to establish battle groups of troops poised for instant action in a significant move toward a European army.
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The European Union agreed on Monday to send a mission to help train local police in Afghanistan, whose government is struggling with an Islamist insurgency.
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The European Union began its biggest-ever military operation Thursday, formally taking over NATO's peacekeeping mission in Bosnia with 7,000 troops.
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European Union nations give the final approval Saturday for a 1,800-strong policing and administration mission to Kosovo to replace the current U.N. mission.