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The Jewish community in Kosovo never fully recovered from the war. [61] Few Jews remained in Kosovo, and many emigrated to Israel during the communist period. [15] Similarly, most of Albania's Jews decided to emigrate following the communist takeover. [62] In 1999, during the Kosovo War, Israel airlifted a group of Kosovo Albanians to safety ...
A report produced by the ICTY after the war put the death toll of the siege at 4,548 ARBiH soldiers and 4,954 Sarajevan civilians killed. [ 100 ] [ 101 ] The Research and Documentation Center in Sarajevo (RDC) found that the siege left a total of 13,952 people dead: 9,429 Bosniaks, 3,573 Serbs, 810 Croats and 140 others.
The war in the western parts of former Yugoslavia ended in 1995 with US-sponsored peace talks in Dayton, Ohio, which resulted in the Dayton Agreement. The Kosovo War started in 1998 and ended with the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia; Slobodan Milošević was overthrown on 5 October 2000.
Ottoman historian Mehmed Neşri who authored the first detailed report in Ottoman historiography about the battle of Kosovo in 1521 represents the Ottoman imperial narrative. As an Ottoman Sultan died before or during the battle, the size of the Christian army is presented as significantly larger in Ottoman sources.
Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) was the official name used by the U.S. government for both the first stage (2001–2014) of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) and the larger-scale Global War on Terrorism.
The Srebrenica massacre, [a] also known as the Srebrenica genocide, [b] [8] was the July 1995 genocidal killing [9] of more than 8,000 [10] Bosniak Muslim men and boys in and around the town of Srebrenica during the Bosnian War. [11]
Total destroyed during the war Total damaged during the war Total Total no. before the war Percentage of pre-war damaged or destroyed congregational mosque 249 58 540 80 307 620 927 1,149: 81% small neighbourhood mosque 21 20 175 43 41 218 259 557: 47% Quran schools 14 4 55 14 18 69 87 954: 9% Dervish lodges 4 1 3 1 5 4 9 15: 60% Mausolea ...
The NATO bombing of Albanian refugees near Gjakova occurred on 14 April 1999 during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, when NATO planes bombed refugees on a twelve-mile stretch of road between the towns of Gjakova and Deçan in western Kosovo. 73 Kosovo Albanian civilians were killed. [1] [2] Among the victims were 16 children.