12 / 02 / 2014 - The Dutch ambassador, HE Hester Somsen MJ, has come on an official visit to the UNIFIL mission, where she was welcomed at Naqoura's military base by the commander, General Division Paolo Serra.

11/02/2014 - It took place yesterday morning, at the "Ugo Mara" barracks in Solbiate Olona (VA), in the presence of the Undersecretary of Defense, the Honorable Gioacchino Alfano and the Chief of Defense Staff, Admiral Luigi Binelli Mantelli, the return ceremony from Afghanistan of the Commander of NATO Rapid Deployable Corps - Italy (NRDC-ITA), General Giorgio Battisti, and the contingent of the international staff.

07/02/2014 - The Army Corps General Marco Bertolini, Commander of the Operational Command of the Joint Forces Summit, met, in Kosovo, the Italian military personnel employed in the NATO Kosovo Force (KFOR) mission.

06/02/2014 - Naqoura, 04-05 February 2014, the Air Squad General Roberto Corsini arrived on an official visit to the UNIFIL mission, where he was welcomed in the military base of Naqoura by the Commander, the Division General Paolo Serra.

29 / 01 / 2014 - (Naqoura, Lebanon) Division General Paolo Serra presided today the regular meeting between the high representatives of the Lebanese Armed Forces and the Israeli Armed Forces at the Advanced Base presided over by UNIFIL's 1 ° Granatieri Regiment of Sardinia .

27/01/2014 - The NATO Rapid Deployable Corps-Italy (NRDC-Ita) mission in Solbiate Olona has ended. The men and women of the "Ugo Mara" barracks landed in Malpensa after more than a year spent in the Afghan capital.

27/01/2014 - After two weeks, an intense joint training phase of the Italian Blue Helmets with the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) and other contingents operating in Sector West ended in recent days.

23 / 01 / 2014 - The Minister of Defense, Mario Mauro, met yesterday at the COMFORPAT office in Augusta for a bilateral interview the Prime Minister of the Republic of Slovenia, Alenka BRATUSEK, visiting the contingent of the Slovene Armed Forces employed in the humanitarian mission "Mare Nostrum".

21/01/2014 - (Naqoura, Lebanon) - The French Chief of Defense Staff, Admiral Edouard Guillaud, arrived yesterday in southern Lebanon on an official visit to the UNIFIL mission.

20/01/2014 - (Naqoura) Il Director of Asia and Middle East Division, Office of Operations - DPKO (Department for Peacekeeping Operations), Ms Izumi Nakamitsu, arrived on Saturday in the South of Lebanon on an official visit to UNIFIL, welcomed by the Force Commander and Head of Mission, General of Division Paolo Serra.

17/01/2014 - On Monday 13 January, General Hans-Lothar Domröse visited the Italian Air Advisory Team (AAT) of the Italian Air Force operating on the Afghan air base of Shindand.

16/01/2014 - The reconnaissance of the Afghan operational theater of the Chief of Defense Staff, Admiral Luigi Binelli Mantelli and his Ukrainian counterpart, Colonel General Volodymir Zamana, ended yesterday. Ukraine participates in the ISAF mission with a contingent operating in the west region of Herat under Italian leadership.

15 / 01 / 2014 - Shama (Lebanon): The Commander of the Operational Command of the Joint Forces (COMCOI), General of the Armed Forces Marco Bertolini, has arrived in South Lebanon for a visit to the Italian National Contingent, on a "Granatieri di Sardegna" Brigade base.

10 / 01 / 2014 - Today the soldiers of the Italian contingent in Kosovo donated toys and garments to the children hosted by the "Casa della Pace" of Bec in the province of Gjakova where the sisters of the Order of St. Basil the Great manage an educational center for children.

08/01/2014 - The Military Ordinary, Monsignor Santo Marcianò, welcomed at the “Millevoi” base in Shama by the Commander of the West Sector, Brigadier General Maurizio Riccò, visited the Italian contingent in Lebanon on 5 and 6 January.

08/01/2014 - On January 3rd, the Italian contingent, based on the “Granatieri di Sardegna” Brigade, donated an aerial platform for road maintenance and repair to the population of the municipality of Rmeich in Southern Lebanon.

06/01/2014 - Yesterday morning at 10,30 local time (7 am Italian time), a CH47 "Chinook" helicopter of the Italian "Fenice" Task Force was subjected to gunshots, in the landing phase at 30 kilometers south of Shindand, in an operation in support of the Afghan security forces.

02 / 01 / 2014 - At the end of the year, the Italian military stationed in Pec, belonging to the 52 ° Terrestrial artillery regiment "Torino" and led by Colonel Antonio Sgobba, Commander of the Multinational Battle Group West, continued the work of assistance and cooperationmaking a donation of clothing at the "Center for Independent Living" of Vitomirica, an institute committed to supporting young people with disabilities.

02 / 01 / 2014 - In the late afternoon of the first of January, the Rescue Coordination Center of the  Armed Forces of Malta (AFM) requested the intervention of an HH 212 helicopter of the Italian mission to Malta for the urgent transport of an imminent danger of life on board the merchant ship 'Lady Bug', anchored about 12 miles from the Maltese coast.