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On the same day, Balkan Insight reported that social media users spread disinformation about a "full-scale war". [48] A day later, KFOR confirmed that the barricades that were put up on 31 July were removed, after which the border crossing was opened again for use.
Yugoslav Wars; Part of the breakup of Yugoslavia and the post–Cold War era: Clockwise from top-left: Officers of the Slovenian National Police Force escort captured soldiers of the Yugoslav People's Army back to their unit during the Slovenian War of Independence; a destroyed M-84 tank during the Battle of Vukovar; anti-tank missile installations of the Serbia-controlled Yugoslav People's ...
Yugoslavia occupied a significant portion of the Balkan Peninsula, including a strip of land on the east coast of the Adriatic Sea, stretching southward from the Bay of Trieste in Central Europe to the mouth of Bojana as well as Lake Prespa inland, and eastward as far as the Iron Gates on the Danube and Midžor in the Balkan Mountains, thus including a large part of Southeast Europe, a region ...
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 ...
The Balkan Wars were two conflicts that took place in the Balkan states in 1912 and 1913. In the First Balkan War , the four Balkan states of Greece , Serbia , Montenegro and Bulgaria declared war upon the Ottoman Empire and defeated it, in the process stripping the Ottomans of their European provinces, leaving only Eastern Thrace under Ottoman ...
The neighborhood was taken by Serb forces early in the conflict, and it became part of a front line that divided Sarajevo. The Serb forces, particularly those from the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS), used Grbavica as a stronghold to shell and snipe at the city, contributing to the siege that lasted nearly four years.
War in the Balkans or Balkan(s) conflict may refer to: Yugoslav Wars , or any of the individual wars, stemming from the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s Balkan Wars , the 1912–1913 wars in the Balkans
Siege of Sarajevo; Part of the Bosnian War: Clockwise from top left: Crashed civilian vehicle after being fired upon with small arms; UNPROFOR forces in the city; Government building hit by tank shelling; U.S. airstrike on VRS positions; Overview of the city in 1996; VRS soldiers before a prisoner exchange.