(NATO intervention in 2001 helped prevent ethnic conflict developing into full-scale civil war.)

Remind me again what the rationale was for NATO intervention in Libya?

Thus, few members of the Yugoslav public expected NATO intervention, instead thinking that a diplomatic agreement would be reached.

"That is a trip wire for possible NATO intervention," he said.

The writer expressed concern over the precedent it set for NATO military intervention in the internal conflicts of any state.

It also calls for NATO military intervention to stop the fighting.

Serbian police, angered by the NATO intervention, jeered at foreign reporters who watched.

They know an offensive could bring NATO intervention.

Both countries have called for NATO intervention to prevent a widening of the fighting.

The NATO intervention in Kosovo is perhaps the first step in this direction.