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  2. Kosovo War - Wikipedia

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    The Kosovo War ( Albanian: Lufta e Kosovës, Serbian: Косовски рат, Kosovski rat) was an armed conflict in Kosovo that lasted from 28 February 1998 until 11 June 1999. [56] [57] [58] It was fought between the forces of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (i.e. Serbia and Montenegro), which controlled Kosovo before the war, and the ...

  3. War crimes in the Kosovo War - Wikipedia

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    Račak massacre (or "Operation Račak") on 15 January 1999 – 45 Albanians were rounded up and killed by Serbian special forces. The first forensic report, by a joint Yugoslavian and Belarusian team, concluded that those killed were not civilians. The massacre provoked a shift in Western policy towards the war.

  4. Civilian casualties during Operation Allied Force - Wikipedia

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    Many human rights groups criticised civilian casualties resulting from military actions of NATO forces in Operation Allied Force. Both Serbs and Albanians were killed in 90 Human Rights Watch -confirmed incidents in which civilians died as a result of NATO bombing. It reported that as few as 489 and as many as 528 Yugoslav civilians were killed ...

  5. List of massacres in Kosovo - Wikipedia

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    Killed months prior, the bodies were concealed by the KFOR. Klokot killings: 16 August 1999 Klokot: 2 Albanian extremists Serbian civilians On 16 August 1999, after the Kosovo War, a mortar attack carried out by Albanians killed two Serb civilians and wounded five others in the village. There had earlier that month been two mortar attacks.

  6. NATO bombing of Yugoslavia - Wikipedia

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    By the end of the war, the Yugoslavs had killed 1,500 to 2,131 combatants. 10,317 civilians were killed or missing, with 85% of those being Kosovar Albanian and some 848,000 were expelled from Kosovo. The NATO bombing killed about 1,000 members of the Yugoslav security forces in addition to between 489 and 528 civilians.

  7. Casualties of the Syrian civil war - Wikipedia

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    Casualties of the war. Crimes. War crimes, massacres, rape. Return of refugees, Refugees as weapons, Prosecution of war criminals. v. t. e. Doctors and medical staff treating injured rebel fighters and civilians in Aleppo. Estimates of the total number of deaths in the Syrian Civil War, by various war monitors, range between 580,000 as of May ...

  8. Legitimacy of the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia - Wikipedia

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    Kosovo War. The legitimacy under international law of the 1999 NATO bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia has been questioned. The UN Charter is the foundational legal document of the United Nations (UN) and is the cornerstone of the public international law governing the use of force between States. NATO members are also subject to the ...

  9. Killings and massacres during the 1948 Palestine war

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    Bombing attacks. At the beginning of the Civil War, Jewish militias organized several bombing attacks against civilians and military Arab targets. On 12 December 1947, the Irgun placed a car bomb opposite the Damascus Gate, the main entrance to the Old City of Jerusalem, killing 20 people.