Folgore Parachute Brigade - Peacekeeping

Peacekeeping

The Brigade has been employed in numerous peacekeeping missions in the recent years.

• Lebanon in 1982 (one of the first international missions of peace).
• In 1991 a Parachutist Tactical group was in Kurdistan in the picture of the mission of humanitarian aid "Italfor Airone".
• From July 1992 the Brigade supplied personnel for the operation "Vespri Siciliani" (anti-crime operation in Sicily).
• The Folgore participated Operation Restore Hope, in Somalia, from 3 December 1992 to September 1993.
• Parts of the Brigade have been employed many times over in the Balkans (Missions IFOR/SFOR in Bosnia and KFOR in Kosovo), with Multinational Force in Albania and
• Elements of the brigade participated in UN Mission INTERFET to East Timor.
• The Folgore participated from April 2005 to September 2005 in the operation "Antica Babilonia" in Iraq.
• In August 2007 tookpart in operation "Leonte 2" in Lebanon, under aegis of the UN (Resolution 1701), as a result of the war between Israel and Hezbollah of the summer of 2006.
• The Folgore paricipated to ISAF Mission in Afghanistan from March to September 2009 and from March to September 2011