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The Turkish Armed Forces' (TSK) new amendment on employing civilian officers for military positions requiring specific qualifications will alter the superior-subordinate relationship as it will allow chief civilian officers to command their military subordinates, daily Habertürk reported June 16. 

The TRIDENT JOUST 15 military exercise, conducted by the Allied Joint Force Command Naples personnel, which is in charge with the NATO Response Force this year, will start on Wednesday on the Cincu Range in Brasov County and will end on June 28.

During his visit to Washington, Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic promised that Belgrade will solve the 1999 murders of three American-Albanian brothers who fought for the Kosovo Liberation Army.

Pilot Stevan Popov took his own life on Wednesday in Novi Sad, the local website 021.rs is reporting.

The 68-year-old father of four, who for 23 years worked for the former national carrier JAT and for a while held a rank in the former Yugoslav army, JNA, reserves, used a pistol to commit suicide, according to this source.

The US military will hold drills in Bulgaria at the end of August, the commanding general of US Army Europe Lt. Gen. Frederick "Ben" Hodges has said.

Speaking after a meeting with Bulgaria's Chief of Defence Vice-Admiral Rumen Nikolov in Sofia on Monday, Hodges said the drill will involve US ground troops and an airborne assault unit, according to BGNES news outlet.

Vice Admiral Rumen Nikolov, Chief of Defence Staff of Bulgaria, will participate in the Annual Meeting of the Chiefs of Defence/General Staffs of the Balkan Countries on May 27-28 in Budva, Montenegro.

Two former senior members of the Kosovo Liberation Army, Sami Lushtaku and Sylejman Selimi, were convicted of crimes against civilians during the 1998-99 conflict.

Former members and supporters of the Kosovo Liberation Army, KLA, on Tuesday buried the nine Kosovars killed in clashes with the Macedonian police in the town of Kumanovo two weeks ago. 

US and Bulgarian military personnel began an exercise in the host country of Romania on May 18, according to Pentagon spokesman Army Col. Steve Warren.

Exercise Platinum Eagle 2015 is a multinational exercise at Babadag Training Area, Romania, designed to demonstrate the capabilities of NATO allies in Eastern Europe, Warren said, as cited by the US Department of Defense.

More than 20,000 people came to the town of Bleiburg in Austria to mourn Croatia’s defeated Nazi collaboration forces and civilians killed by Yugoslav Partisans 70 years ago.