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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. [59][60][61] 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 Kosovo ...
In Serbia, far-right groups staged protests in support of Kosovo Serbs. In December 2022, Serbia submitted a request to Kosovo Force for the deployment of up to 1,000 Serbian military and police forces in Kosovo, which ended up being rejected in January 2023. In April local elections were held, boycotted by ethnic Serbs.
On 26 May 2023, Kosovo Police forcefully took control of the municipal buildings of four Serb majority regions in Northern Kosovo after a local election was held. [6] Three days later on 29 May 2023, hundreds of Serbian protesters clashed with NATO peacekeeping troops after rally at city hall in the town of Zvečan in Northern Kosovo.
In an interview with Radio-Television Serbia journalist Danilo Mandić on 25 April 2006, Noam Chomsky referred to the foreword to John Norris' 2005 book Collision Course: NATO, Russia, and Kosovo, in which Strobe Talbott, the Deputy Secretary of State under President Clinton and the leading US negotiator during the war, had written that "It was ...
Serbian military, paramilitary and police forces in Kosovo have committed a wide range of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and other violations of international humanitarian and human rights law: forced expulsion of Kosovars from their homes; burning and looting of homes, schools, religious sites and healthcare facilities; detention, particularly of military-age men; summary execution ...
Serbia in the Yugoslav Wars. Serbia, as a constituent subject of the SFR Yugoslavia and later the FR Yugoslavia, was involved in the Yugoslav Wars, which took place between 1991 and 1999—the war in Slovenia, the war in Croatia, the war in Bosnia, and Kosovo. From 1991 to 1997, Slobodan Milošević was the President of Serbia.
2 Serbian police officers were killed in an ambush by Albanians in the town of Drenas, Kosovo. [4] 27 October A Serbian police inspector and a Serbian policeman were killed by the KLA in an ambush in the village of Surkish in Podujevo. [5] 21 April: Kosovo Albanian student Armend Daci was shot by a Serb civilian sniper in Sunny Hill, Prishtina ...
Pristina is the capital city of Kosovo. North Kosovo is highlighted in red. Triggered by the Government of Kosovo 's decision to reciprocally ban Serbian license plates, a series of protests by Serbs in North Kosovo —consisting mostly of blocking traffic near border crossings— began on 20 September 2021. The ban meant that individuals who ...