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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 ...
By the 1980s, the Kosovo Albanians constituted a majority in Kosovo. During the 1970s and 1980s, thousands of Serbs and Montenegrins left Kosovo, including some 57,000 during the 1970s alone. [8] [9] Social-economic, migration from underdeveloped areas, an increasingly adverse social-political climate and direct and indirect pressures were ...
Rasim Delić was the Chief of Staff of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ARBiH) from 1993 to 1995. Jovan Divjak was the commander of ARBiH forces in Sarajevo at the beginning of the war (1992-1993) and later served as deputy commander of the ARBiH Headquarters. Atif Dudaković was the commander of the Bosnian 5th Corps.
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 ...
Yugoslav forces quell rebellion in the Drenica / Metohija area. Kachak defeat causes the Second Uprising in Metohija. Second Uprising in Dukagjini. (1920) Kachaks. Kosovo Albanians. Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. Victory. Albanians under Azem Galica defeat Yugoslav Forces and capture Drenica and most of Metohija.
World War II. Today's Kosovo in 1941, showing in green the area annexed to the Italian Greater Albania. Yugoslavia was conquered by the Axis in April 1941 and divided mainly between Italy and Germany. Kosovo was included mainly in the Italian controlled area, and was united to fascist Albania between 1941 and 1943.
1-3 June: Dečan operation Victory for the MUP and the JSO,clearing of most of southwestern Kosovo from KLA units. 15 june: In an ambush by the KLA,2 Serbian police officers were killed and 7 other were wounded,5 of them were VJ soldiers. 22 June–1 July: Battle of Belaćevac Mine. Yugoslav victory. 16 July: First Battle of Vërrin KLA Victory
Timeline of the Yugoslav Wars. The Yugoslav Wars were a series of armed conflicts on the territory of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) that took place between 1991 and 2001. This article is a timeline of relevant events preceding, during, and after the wars.