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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. [ 58 ] [ 59 ] [ 60 ] It was fought between the forces of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (i.e. Serbia and Montenegro), which controlled Kosovo before the war, and ...
Kosovo's status was a key issue in the political violence that presaged the Kosovo War of 1999. The ethnic Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army was formed in the early 1990s, and began targeting Serbian Police and Yugoslav Army in 1996. The international community also did not support independence for Kosovo at this stage.
Maria Zakharova, the spokeswoman of the ministry of foreign affairs of Russia, accused Kosovo Albanians of escalating the conflict, while Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin press secretary, stated that Russia demands that "all rights of Serbs to be respected". [246]
The European Union has summoned the leaders of Serbia and Kosovo for emergency talks on Thursday to try to bring an end to a series of violent clashes near their border that is fueling fears of a ...
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 ...
In Kosovo, a state-owned energy company plans to destroy a village to make way for expanded coal mining as the government and the World Bank plan for a proposed coal-burning power plant. The government has already forced roughly 1,000 residents from their homes. Many former residents claim officials violated World Bank policy requiring borrowers to restore their living conditions at equal or ...
Timeline of the Kosovo War. Abbreviations: Combatants. KLA—Kosovo Liberation Army; FARK—Armed Forces of the Republic of Kosovo; VJ—Yugoslav Army; NATO—North Atlantic Treaty Organization; Peace-keeping forces. KFOR—Kosovo Force (NATO) Organizations. ICTY—International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (UN)
Kosovo's president Vjosa Osmani has warned that opening a bridge to traffic in the ethnically divided town of Mitrovica without NATO's coordination risks a conflict between police and U.S. troops.