Date
|
Operation
|
Location
|
Type
|
Information
|
27 August 2001 ?
26 September 2001
|
Disarmament of the Albanian UCK fighters
|
North Macedonia
|
Security mission
|
Its aim was to disarm the Macedonian
UCK
fighters. Their weapons were handed over to the
NATO
forces in
Macedonia
. 3500 soldiers were involved.
|
9 October 2001 ?
16 May 2002
|
Operation Eagle Assist
|
United States
airspace
|
Aerial
counter-terrorism
|
The
11 September attacks
in the United States, a NATO member, invoked Article 5 of the
North Atlantic Treaty
. It remains the only time since NATO's inception that an attack from an external party or state has been deemed an attack on all NATO members. Operation Eagle Assist, which involved aerial patrols over the United States to prevent further attacks, was the first of two NATO operations undertaken in defense of the United States under Article 5.
[2]
|
16 October 2001 ?
9 November 2016
|
Operation Active Endeavor
|
Mediterranean Sea
(confined to eastern Mediterranean prior to March 2004, entire sea thereafter)
[2]
|
Maritime
counter-terrorism
and anti-
trafficking
|
The
11 September attacks
in the United States, a NATO member, invoked Article 5 of the
North Atlantic Treaty
. It remains the only time since NATO's inception that an attack from an external party or state has been deemed an attack on all NATO members. Operation Active Endeavor, which involved maritime patrols to monitor shipping in the Mediterranean Sea "to detect and deter terrorism", was the second of two NATO operations undertaken in defense of the United States under Article 5.
[2]
|
20 December 2001 ?
28 December 2014
|
International Security Assistance Force
|
Afghanistan
|
Security mission
|
On 20 December 2001,
UN Security Council Resolution 1386
unanimously approved the
International Security Assistance Force
(ISAF), a multi-national coalition with the aim of enforcing peace in Afghanistan. ISAF was led by NATO from August 2003 to December 2014.
ISAF ceased combat operations in 2014, with a minority of troops remaining behind as the advisory
Resolute Support Mission
.
|
26 February 2003 ?
3 May 2003
|
Operation Display Deterrence
|
Turkey
|
Border defense
|
Deterrence to Iraq aggression against Turkey during the
Iraq War
.
[3]
|
8 October 2005 ?
9 February 2006
[4]
|
Pakistan earthquake relief
|
Pakistan
|
Relief effort ?
Airlift
|
NATO took on another new responsibility in the post-
Cold War
era by providing aid in the wake of
2005 Kashmir earthquake
in Pakistan. NATO accepted a request from the Pakistani government for assistance and in total 3,500 tons of relief supplies were delivered to Pakistan whilst also sending medical teams and engineers.
|
17 August 2009 ?
15 December 2016
|
Operation Ocean Shield
(
Resolution 1838
and
1950
)
|
Red Sea
,
Gulf of Aden
, Indian Ocean
Somalia
and
Yemen
|
Counter-piracy (
Piracy in Somalia
)
|
In October 2008, NATO announced they would send NATO warships to counter the rising problem of piracy off the coast of Africa.
[5]
In August 2009, the mission was upgraded to
Operation Ocean Shield
which was a concerted effort to eradicate piracy and the operation continues to this day with piracy still at large amid calls for greater powers from NATO to combat the problem
[6]
|
27 March 2011 ?
31 October 2011
|
Operation Unified Protector
(
Resolution 1973
)
|
Libya
|
No-fly zone
;
Air campaign
|
By March 2011, the
Arab Spring
had spread to Libya, with protests against the regime of
Muammar Gaddafi
. Amid reports that
Libyan Air Force
pilots had been ordered to bomb protesters, two pilots refused to carry out this order and defected, landing their fighter jets in
Malta
.
[7]
UN SC Resolution 1973
gave NATO a mandate to enforce a
no-fly zone
using "all necessary measures" to protect civilians.
|
4 December 2012 ? present
|
Operation Active Fence
|
Turkey
|
Anti-missile defense
|
Turkey asked for NATO support to protect itself from Syrian missiles. NATO agreed to install
MIM-104 Patriot
Systems from the United States, Italy, the Netherlands and Germany.
|
1 January 2015 ?
12 July 2021
|
Resolute Support Mission
|
Afghanistan
|
Training, advisory, and assistance mission
|
The objective of the mission was to provide training, advice and assistance for the Afghan security forces and institutions. The Resolute Support Mission envisaged the deployment of approximately 12,000 personnel from NATO and partner nations in Afghanistan with the central hub at Kabul and
Bagram Airfield
supporting four spokes.
|