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On May 1, 1999, a Niš-Ekspres bus taking passengers to Kosovo was hit by NATO missiles when it crossed a bridge in the village of Lužane near Podujevo. 2 The number of casualties reported from the Niš-Ekspres bombing vary, with Human Rights Watch recording 39 civilians killed [14] whereas the Minister of Health Leposava Milićević reported ...
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 (FRY), which controlled Kosovo before the war, and the Kosovo Albanian ...
On the morning of April 23, 1998, a band of Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) fighters was ambushed by a group of Yugoslav Army (VJ) border guards near the Košare outpost, just west of Deçan. The fighters had been trying to smuggle weapons and supplies into Kosovo via northern Albania. Nineteen were killed in the ensuing attack, and a further two ...
[4] [5] The broader mission in Kosovo remained focused on ensuring the safety of returning refugees and maintaining the fragile peace between ethnic groups. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] U.S. brigadier general John Craddock, the commander of Task Force Falcon , which was responsible for the American sector in Kosovo, described the incident as part of a ...
The Albanian–Yugoslav border conflict was a one-year undeclared military confrontation between Albania and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia during the Kosovo War. The conflict primarily involved cross-border clashes and incursions, as Yugoslav forces pursued Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) fighters operating near the Albanian-Yugoslav border.
Camp Bondsteel is the operation headquarters of the Kosovo Force (KFOR) in Kosovo.It is located near Ferizaj [3] in southeastern Kosovo. It is the Regional Command-East headed by the United States Army (U.S. Army) and it is supported by troops from Greece, Italy, Finland, Hungary, Poland, Slovenia, Switzerland and Turkey.
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 ...
The graves contained the bodies of 744 [1] Kosovar Albanians civilians that were killed during the Kosovo War. [2] The mass graves were found on the training grounds of the Yugoslav Special Anti-Terrorist Unit (SAJ). [3] Dead bodies were brought to the site by trucks from Kosovo; most were incinerated before burial. [4]