Editing Carabinieri (section)

=== Present day ===
[[File:Alfa-Romeo159-Carabinieri-di-Roma.JPG|thumb|[[Alfa Romeo 159]]]]
The Carabinieri were in the forefront of many internal conflicts in Italy in the late 20th century, such as the [[Years of Lead (Italy)|Years of Lead]] (against the [[Red Brigades]]) and the [[Second Mafia War]] (against the [[Corleonesi Mafia]]).<ref name=Ginzburg>[[Carlo Ginzburg]], ''The Judge and the Historian. Marginal Notes and a Late-Twentieth-century Miscarriage of Justice'', London 1999, {{ISBN|1-85984-371-9}}. Original ed. 1991.</ref><ref name="ricerca.repubblica.it">{{cite web|url=http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2003/10/11/strage-alla-circonvallazione-sicari-adesso-hanno-un.html|title=Strage alla circonvallazione i sicari adesso hanno un volto - la Repubblica.it|date=11 October 2003 }}</ref> They participated, and lost men, in events such as the [[Peteano massacre]] in 1972,<ref name="Provvisionato Corriere 1">{{cite news | author = Sandro Provvisionato | url = http://www.corriere.it/europeo/cronache/2009/11/apertura-tre-anni-che-sconvolsero-italia_58dacb9e-d296-11de-a0b4-00144f02aabc.shtml | title = I tre anni che sconvolsero l'Italia | work = [[Corriere della Sera]] | date = 16 November 2009 | access-date = 10 January 2011 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110125052829/http://www.corriere.it/europeo/cronache/2009/11/apertura-tre-anni-che-sconvolsero-italia_58dacb9e-d296-11de-a0b4-00144f02aabc.shtml | archive-date = 25 January 2011 }}</ref> [[Circonvallazione massacre]] in 1982,<ref name="ricerca.repubblica.it"/> and the murder of [[Emanuele Basile]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Walker|first1=Keith|title=73-year-old Sicilian Sergio Mattarella is Italy's new president|url=http://www.euronews.com/2015/01/31/73-year-old-sicilian-sergio-mattarella-is-new-president-of-italy/|access-date=February 5, 2015|work=Euronews|agency=[[Reuters]]|date=January 31, 2015}}</ref> Until 2000, the Carabinieri were part of the [[Italian Army]]. On 31 March 2000, they were separated to become the fourth branch of the Italian Armed Forces.<ref name=cab /> [[Interpol]] summarizes this force (part of the Ministry of Defence) as having a "nationwide remit for crime investigations. It also serves as the military police for the Italian armed forces and can be called upon for national defence action."<ref>{{cite web | title=Italy | website=INTERPOL | url=https://www.interpol.int/en/Who-we-are/Member-countries/Europe/ITALY | access-date=2019-08-29}}</ref>

According to [[Europol]] (the EU's law enforcement agency), the Carabinieri Corps' military duties include "contributing to national defence, participating in military operations in Italy and abroad, executing military police functions and ensuring the security of Italian diplomatic and consular representations". As a national police force, it "carries out public order and security policing, as well as investigative activities on its own initiative or at the request of the judicial authorities". Europol also states that the force is "supplemented by the Specialized Carabinieri Commands, responsible for safeguarding the primary interests of the community: from the protection of the environment, health, work and national cultural heritage, to the observance of community and agri-food regulations, to the suppression of forgery [of] currency".
<ref name="auto">{{cite web |url=https://www.europol.europa.eu/partners-agreements/member-states/italy |title=Italy |date=7 March 2018 |publisher=Europol |access-date=28 July 2019 }}</ref>

In recent years Carabinieri units have been dispatched on [[peacekeeping]] missions, including [[Kosovo war|Kosovo]], [[War in Afghanistan (2001–present)|Afghanistan]], and [[Iraq War|Iraq]]. In 2003, 12 Carabinieri [[2003 Nasiriyah bombing|were killed in a suicide bombing]] on their base in [[Nasiriyah]], near [[Basra]] in southern Iraq, in the largest Italian military loss of life in a single action since the [[World War II|Second World War]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.carabinieri.it/arma/ieri/storia/vista-da-2015/fascicolo-43/la-strage-di-nassiriya |title=Arma dei Carabinieri – La strage di Nassiriya |publisher=Carabinieri.it |access-date=2016-04-17}}</ref> One of the previous projects included training and assisting the Afghan National Security Forces, the Afghan National Police, and the Afghan National Civil Order Police. In Iraq, Carabinieri have trained 13,000 police officers; during the ISIS destruction of historic sites, Italy dispatched troops from the Carabinieri's Command to protect cultural heritage.<ref>{{cite web | last=Braw | first=Elisabeth | title=For Not-Quite-Wars, Italy Has a Useful Alternative to Traditional Troops | website=Defense One | date=2018-04-16 | url=https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2018/04/todays-not-quite-wars-italy-has-alternative-traditional-troops/147457/ | access-date=2019-08-29}}</ref>

At the Sea Island Conference of the [[G8]] in 2004, Carabinieri were given a mandate to establish a [[Centre of Excellence for Stability Police Units]] to spearhead the development of training and doctrinal standards for civilian police units attached to international peacekeeping missions.<ref>{{cite web
 |url=http://www.carlisle.army.mil/pksoi/Docs/policeunits.pdf
 |title=Formed Police Units Workshop and Seminar
 |access-date=2007-05-15
 |url-status=dead
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070616220931/http://www.carlisle.army.mil/pksoi/Docs/policeunits.pdf
 |archive-date=2007-06-16
}} Issue Paper No. 2006-04, US Army Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute, January 2007.</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |doi = 10.1080/09662839.2012.747511|title = The European Gendarmerie Force: A solution in search of problems?|journal = European Security|volume = 22|pages = 1–20|year = 2013|last1 = Arcudi|first1 = Giovanni|last2 = Smith|first2 = Michael E.|doi-access = free}}</ref>

The [[State Forestry Corps]] was dissolved on 31 December 2016 and personnel with forestry police function were militarized and absorbed by the Carabinieri.