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An estimated 200,000 Serbs and Roma fled Kosovo after the war. Romani people were also driven out after being harassed by Albanian gangs and vengeful individuals. The Yugoslav Red Cross registered 247,391 mostly Serb refugees by November 1999. During the Kosovo War, over 90,000 Serbian and other non-Albanian refugees fled the war-torn province ...
Kosovan embassy in London, United Kingdom. Kosovo–United Kingdom relations are foreign relations between the Republic of Kosovo and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. When Kosovo declared its independence from Serbia on 17 February 2008, the United Kingdom became one of the first countries to announce the official ...
United States invasion of Afghanistan. United States invasion of Afghanistan. Part of the War in Afghanistan. Major American special forces operations in Afghan territory between October 2001 and March 2002. Date. 7 October 2001 – 17 December 2001. (2 months, 1 week and 3 days) Location. Afghanistan.
The Chechen–Russian conflict ( Russian: Чеченский конфликт, romanized : Chechensky konflikt; Chechen: Нохчийн-Оьрсийн дов, romanized: Noxçiyn-Örsiyn dov) was the centuries-long ethnic and political conflict, often armed, between the Russian, Soviet and Imperial Russian governments and various Chechen forces.
Đorđe Martinović (also spelled Djordje Martinovic; Serbian Cyrillic: Ђорђе Мартиновић; 1929 – 6 September 2000) was a Serb farmer from Kosovo who was at the center of a notorious incident in May 1985, when he was treated for injuries caused by the insertion of a bottle into his anus. The Martinović affair, as it became ...
Kosovo declared independence on 17 February 2008. As of 4 September 2020, 114 out of 193 ( 59.1%) United Nations member states have formally recognised the Republic of Kosovo. Notably, 22 out of 27 ( 81%) member states of the European Union and 24 out of 28 ( 86%) member states of NATO have recognised Kosovo. Serbia refuses to recognise it.
A report conducted by the ICTY entitled "Final Report to the Prosecutor by the Committee Established to Review the NATO Bombing Campaign Against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia" after the Kosovo War examined the attack on the Chinese embassy specifically and came to the conclusion that the Office of the Prosecutor should not undertake an ...
The Great Turkish War ( German: Großer Türkenkrieg ), also called the Wars of the Holy League ( Turkish: Kutsal İttifak Savaşları ), was a series of conflicts between the Ottoman Empire and the Holy League consisting of the Holy Roman Empire, Poland-Lithuania, Venice, Russia, and the Kingdom of Hungary. Intensive fighting began in 1683 and ...