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6 killed. Operation Eagle was a military operation by the "Kobra Unit" of the Kosovo Liberation Army in the villages of Voksh and Sllup against Yugoslav forces. The engagement resulted in the deaths of six Yugoslav policemen and soldiers, meanwhile the KLA sufferred no casualties. The KLA also managed to capture Yugoslav ammunition and ...
Stjepan Mesić on Belgrade's intentions in the war In August 1990, an unrecognized mono-ethnic referendum was held in regions with a substantial Serb population which would later become known as the Republic of Serbian Krajina (RSK) (bordering western Bosnia and Herzegovina) on the question of Serb "sovereignty and autonomy" in Croatia. This was an attempt to counter changes made to the ...
Casualties of the Iraq War: Afghanistan (Operation Herrick) 2001 2014 457 101 546 British Forces casualties in Afghanistan since 2001: Sierra Leone Civil War: 2000 2000 1 1 Balkans - Bosnia/Kosovo: 1992 2009 72 72 Ref: Gulf War 1990–1991 (Operation Granby) 1990 1991 47 47 Falklands War (Operation Corporate) 1982 1982 255 3 258
In 1999, NATO intervened in the Kosovo War with a bombing campaign against Yugoslav forces, who were conducting a campaign of ethnic cleansing. The bombing lasted about 2½ months, until forcing the withdrawal of the Yugoslav army from Kosovo. Estimates for the number of casualties caused by the bombing vary widely depending on the source.
The history of Kosovo dates back to pre-historic times when the Starčevo culture, Vinča culture, Bubanj-Hum culture, and Baden culture were active in the region. Since then, many archaeological sites have been discovered due to the abundance of natural resources which gave way to the development of life. In antiquity the area was part of the ...
Radovan Karadžić ( Serbian Cyrillic: Радован Караџић, pronounced [râdoʋaːn kâradʒitɕ]; born 19 June 1945) is a Bosnian Serb politician who was convicted of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). [2] He was the president of Republika Srpska ...
Battle of Paštrik. Incident at Pristina airport. Prizren incident (1999) Račak massacre. Si Fly Flight 3275. Staro Gracko massacre. Suva Reka massacre. United Nations Administered Kosovo. United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo.
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.