News - Missions abroad
17 news items on Missions abroad
A look at the Defence news 20 February – 26 February
Last week, Dutch military personnel were in Uganda to give training courses to the Ugandan Battle Group. They provided courses in ...
A look at the Defence news 6 February – 12 February
‘From partnerships to ecosystems: combining our efforts for a more secure world’. This was the theme of the Future Force ...
A look at the Defence news 30 January – 5 February (video)
Russia’s current attitude, terrorism, large migration flows, the impending scarcity of natural resources. These are all security ...
A look at the Defence news 23 – 29 January
The Dutch F-16s protecting the airspace over Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania intercepted an Antonov-26 Curl and a Sukhoi-24 Fencer ...
A look at the Defence news 31 October – 6 November
This week, Minister Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert paid a visit to the Royal Netherlands Navy vessel HNLMS Rotterdam to see for ...
A look at the Defence news, 17 – 23 October
Dutch military personnel on board the Royal Netherlands Navy vessels HNLMS Holland and HNLMS Pelikaan lent emergency aid in Haiti ...
A look at the Defence news 26 September – 2 October
Dutch military personnel are scheduled to continue training and advising the Afghan military in 2017. Owing to the precarious ...
A look at the Defence news 12-18 September
In the Caribbean, HNLMS Groningen intercepted a fishing boat carrying 2,000 kg of cocaine. An American patrol aircraft spotted ...
A look at the Defence news 11 – 17 July
The bodies of the two servicemen killed in Mali on Wednesday 6 July, Sergeant Henry Hoving (29) and Corporal Kevin Roggeveld ...
2 Dutch military personnel killed in Mali
2 Dutch army personnel have been killed during a firing exercise with mortars in Mali. They are 29-year-old sergeant Henry Hoving ...