NATO reportedly confirmed that 600 British troops will be deployed in Kosovo after a battle between police and armed Serbs holed up in a monastery turned a quiet village in northern Kosovo into a war zone this week.
Britain's Ministry of Defense transferred command of an army battalion to NATO so it can provide support in Kosovo if needed, it said Friday.
Tensions between Belgrade and Pristina soared since Sept. 24, when Kosovo police near the northern Kosovo's village of Banjska fought about 30 armed Serbs who barricaded themselves in a Serbian Orthodox monastery. Three attackers and one police officer were killed. He said the army presence in the so-called Ground Safety Zone, a three-mile strip inside Serbia along the Kosovo border, had "reverted to normal."Kosovo on Saturday called on Serbia to reduce the number of troops along the border, while the United States on Friday said it was monitoring Serbian military deployment, describing it as destabilizing.
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