NATO Operations

The United Kingdom contributes to all five of the NATO operations and missions:

• The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan;
• Kosovo Force (KFOR);
• the NATO Training Assistance Implementation Mission in Iraq (NTM-I);
• Operation Active Endeavour (OAE) in the Eastern Mediterranean;
• and Counter-Piracy.

In addition, it provided support to the African Union's peacekeeping mission to Sudan from 2005 until its termination in at the end of 2007, providing airlift and training/mentoring.  It is examining with the AU possibilities for further capacity building support.