03/02/2015 - On the threshold of the seventh month of continuous activity away from Italy, the Doria ship has interacted on three different occasions, with the Chinese naval group, the second Japanese escort division and the Korean naval group, some of the so-called independent deployers operating within the Gulf of Aden to ensure the safety of navigation in an international strategic area with a very high density of merchant traffic.
03/02/2015 - Brigadier General Antonio Maggi has been appointed as the new commander of the EU training mission in Somalia (EUTM Somalia).
General Maggi, Italian, assumes his functions the 8 March 2015. He will replace Brigadier General Massimo Mingiardi, who has held this position since December 2013.
30/01/2015 - The 24-meter metal bridge built by the Italian military genius of the European mission EUFOR RCA was inaugurated yesterday to bring together three areas of the Central African capital divided by the collapse - in 2010 - of the structure that crossed a large water channel, never restored due to of civil conflict.
28/01/2015 - At about 11:30 today, near Wazzani, in the area of responsibility of Unifil, some rockets directed towards Israel were observed. The IDF responded with artillery fire at the same location.
28/01/2015 - The Italian military of the Train Advise Assist Command West (TAAC W) in recent days have delivered a mammographer to the Maternity Hospital in Herat.
27/01/2015 - General John Campbell, commander of the Resolute Support (RSM) mission in Afghanistan, visited the Train Advise Assist Command West (TAAC-W) of Herat.
23/01/2015 - The commander of the Kosovo Force (KFOR), Major General Francesco Paolo Figliuolo welcomed, together with the commander of the Joint Force Command of Naples (JFCN) Admiral Mark Ferguson III, the general secretary of the Atlantic Alliance, Jens Stoltenberg at the base of “Film City”, headquarters of the NATO Command in Pristina.
22/01/2015 - The men and women of the Italian Military Contingent in Lebanon made possible a videoconference that put students from Naqoura in contact with students from Salerno.
19/01/2015 - The fight against ISIL and the crises in the Mediterranean, Middle East and African areas were at the center of the talks between the Chief of Defense Staff, Admiral Luigi Binelli Mantelli and his US counterpart, General Martin E. Dempsey, on a visit in Italy.
19/01/2015 - With a ceremony that took place at the "Camp Arena" flight line, headquarters of the Train Advise Assist Command West (TAAC-W) based on the "Garibaldi" Bersaglieri Brigade under the command of Brigadier General Maurizio Angelo Scardino, the Joint Air Task Force (JATF), under the orders of Colonel Paolo Latini, took over the management of Herat airport.
16/01/2015 - Yesterday the commander of the Kosovo Force (KFOR), Major General Francesco Paolo Figliuolo, welcomed Kosovar Prime Minister Isa Mustafa at the “Film City” base, headquarters of the NATO command in Pristina.
13/01/2015 - A few days after the start of the new Resolute Support Mission (RS), the commander of the Operational Command of Vertice Interforze (COI), Corps General Marco Bertolini, visited the Train Advise Assist Command West (TAAC-W), Italian-led multinational command on a "Garibaldi" Bersaglieri brigade, stationed in Herat.
12/01/2015 - Italy is responsible for the Foward Support Base (FSB), the military infrastructure where the Train Advise Assist Command West (TAAC-W) based on the "Garibaldi" Bersaglieri Brigade, previously under Spanish leadership, is based.
10/01/2015 - In recent days, some soldiers of the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) participated in an intense phase of joint training called "Joint training activities", conducted by the staff of the Italian contingent of ITALBATT, currently based on the Cavallegeri Guide Regiment (19th) .
08/01/2015 - In recent days, the military ordinary for Italy concluded the visit to the Italian contingent in Lebanon, based on the Pinerolo Brigade, with the celebration of the Holy Mass of the Epiphany of the Lord assisted by the Greek Catholic Archbishop of Tire, SE Mikhail Abrass, and the military chaplain of the contingent, Don Pasquale Moscarelli.
05/01/2015 - Bangui (Central African Republic), the Italian military built and put into operation in the space of three days a light metal bridge through which pedestrian and vehicle traffic was restored in a district of Bangui, in the near the airport.
31/12/2014 - A new dawn illuminates the boundless plains of the Horn of Africa, a new day is about to begin for the Italian staff engaged in the Gibutian theater; in the background, an unmanned aircraft “Predator” of the Italian Air Force takes its wheels off the runway and takes off, ready to carry out a new operational flight under the aegis of the European Union.
29/12/2014 - “I was completely unaware of the role that forensic science played in the discovery of crimes. Now I have learned a lot about the importance of this field in our work because it is with the tests that the analytical laboratory produces and that is submitted to us, that we judges can issue fair verdicts when evaluating cases. "
29/12/2014 - In recent days, the commander of the multinational Kosovo Force (KFOR), Major General Francesco Paolo Figliuolo, visited the dependent units deployed throughout Kosovo.
25/12/2014 - The President of the Senate, Pietro Grasso, on the occasion of the Christmas holidays, visited the Italian military personnel employed in Lebanon. Received at the UNIFIL command heliport in Naquora by Major General Luciano Portolano, Head of Mission and Force Commander, the President of the Senate was updated on the main political, operational and logistical aspects of the mission.