Philip Breedlove

"NATO will be more important in the next 75 years than it has been in the last 75," NATO's former supreme allied commander Europe (2013-2016) General Philip Breedlove tells Kathimerini.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic on Wednesday received a US Armed Forces delegation headed by Ret Gen Philip Breedlove, the previous NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic on Wednesday in Belgrade received a delegation of the US Armed Forces.

The delegation was headed by Ret. Gen. Philip Breedlove, the previous NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe.

The Pentagon and the U.S. State Department have ordered the families of U.S. troops and civilian personnel stationed in the provinces of ?zmir, Adana and Mu?la to leave the region, citing concerns over their security. 

One of the most important results of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's visit to Ankara on Feb. 8 was the announcement of a Turkish-German initiative to request NATO to provide assistance to the Turkish and Greek coast guards in their fight against the illegal trafficking of migrants via the Aegean Sea. 

The Canadian navy's HMCS Fredericton has set sail for the Aegean Sea to take part in the new NATO mission to fight human traffickers and reduce the number of refugees crossing from Turkey to the European Union in search of a better life.

Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic met in Belgrade Friday with U.S. Gen. Philip Breedlove, NATO supreme allied commander Europe.

During the meeting, Vucic "expressed his satisfaction about Serbia's good cooperation with KFOR."

U.S. aircraft and about 300 Air Force troops have begun arriving at a military base in Turkey to provide search and rescue capabilities for the fighting in Iraq and Syria.
     
Pentagon officials said there will be a number of Pave Hawk helicopters and search-and-rescue versions of the C-130 transport plane stationed at Diyarbak?r Air Base in southeast Turkey.
     

NATO?s highest military authority, the Military Committee, will convene in Istanbul for a three-day session starting Sept. 11 to review security challenges in Europe and the Middle East, as well as ongoing operations in Afghanistan.

The meeting will be hosted by Turkish Chief of General Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar.

A pair of M1A2 Abrams battle tanks have arrived in Bulgaria by plane, the country's Defense Ministry has said.

The vehicles, flown into Bulgaria from the American Rammstein Air Base in Germany, are due to take part in the Power Shock drill at the Novo Selo military ground near Sliven.