All articles tagged with #military alert
The U.S. is evacuating non-essential staff from its Baghdad embassy and military families from Gulf bases amid rising tensions with Iran, as diplomatic negotiations over Iran's nuclear program stall and threats of military escalation increase, with Israel on high alert and international warnings of potential conflict.
Serbia has placed its army on alert and moved units close to the Kosovo border after clashes between police and Kosovo's Serb minority. The violence erupted after police moved to install new ethnic Albanian mayors in the Serb majority border town of Zvecan. Kosovo's Serb minority boycotted April's local elections in four northern municipalities, allowing ethnic Albanians to take control of the councils. The Serbian minority says the establishment of a promised association of Serbian municipalities would work on education, healthcare, land planning and economic development, but ethnic Albanians fear it could allow the formation of a pro-Serbian statelet.