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The Kosovo War was an armed conflict between Serbia and the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) from 1998 to 1999, which ended with NATO intervention. The war resulted in the displacement and death of thousands of civilians, mostly Albanians, but also Serbs and other ethnic groups.
NATO carried out an aerial bombing campaign against Yugoslavia in 1999 during the Kosovo War. Serbia was part of Yugoslavia at the time and was targeted by NATO, which claimed it was a humanitarian intervention.
A comprehensive list of events and battles that took place during the Kosovo War, a conflict between Yugoslav forces and the Kosovo Liberation Army in 1998-1999. The timeline covers the background, the clashes, the NATO intervention, the peace process and the aftermath of the war.
The web page examines the legal and political justifications and criticisms of the 1999 NATO intervention in Kosovo, which violated the UN Charter and NATO's charter. It also discusses the role of the UN Security Council, the UN Secretary-General, and the Russian attempt to end the bombing.
During the 1998-1999 war with ethnic Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army separatists, Serbian forces failed to meet Western demands on reconciliation, which pushed NATO to launch a 78-day bombing ...
The Ambush near Kosovska Mitrovica (Serbian: Zaseda kod Kosovske Mitrovice) was an incident that occurred on 8 January 1999, when members of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) ambushed a Yugoslav Interior Ministry convoy carrying rations to troops stationed in a field near Kosovska Mitrovica.
The Prizren Incident was a confrontation between German Kosovo Force (KFOR) troops advancing into Kosovo and stragglers from the withdrawing Yugoslav Army. The shootout took place in the city of Prizren, on 13 June 1999. The German troops killed one armed Serb on the spot, while another one died of wounds later.
At the time of the war, Kosovo was a province of Serbia. A Serb government crackdown on Kosovo’s separatist ethnic Albanians killed some 13,000 people, most of them ethnic Albanians. The United ...