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The Kosovo Operation (15 October–22 November 1944) was a series of military operations leading up to one final push during World War II, launched by the Bulgarian army (commanded by Major General Kiril Stanchev) with the assistance of Albanian and Yugoslav Partisans to expel German forces from Kosovo and prevent the retreat of German forces from Greece.
Bulgarian armored brigade in November 1944 in Podujevo, during the Kosovo Operation. After the surrender of the Kingdom of Italy in September 1943, the German forces took over direct control of the region. In September 1944 the Soviet Union declared war on Bulgaria and occupied part of the country.
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. [57] [58] [59] 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 ...
These operations were focused on the destruction of strong Partisan forces in the Đakovica, Peć and Mokra Gora areas. During the operation on 28 July 1944, the division together with the 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division Prinz Eugen, massacred around 550 Serb villagers in the settlement of Velika, in Plav, Montenegro.
Kosovo Force. The emblem of KFOR, which contains the Latin and Cyrillic scripts. The Kosovo Force ( KFOR) is a NATO -led international peacekeeping force in Kosovo. [ 2] Its operations are gradually reducing until Kosovo's Security Force, established in 2009, becomes self-sufficient. [ 3] KFOR entered Kosovo on 12 June 1999, [ 4] one day after ...
Sri Lanka peacekeeping operation (Sri Lanka, 1987-1990) On 1 October 1987, the 4/5 Gorkha Rifles from Indian Army were deployed as peacekeepers to Sri Lanka. However, there they had to fight against the rebels. The Gurkha army first rescued the 13 Sikh Light Infantry and a team of 10 Para-commando.
The Battle of the Reka of Rainca also known as the War for East Kosovo was fought in the southeast region of Gjilan, Preševo, Bujanovac by Ristovc, Tasjan and Brezë in the 29th of August 1944. The battle was fought as a defensive reaction to the attacks of the Serbian and Bulgarian forces on 28 August 1944.
Elyesa Bazna ( Turkish: [ˈeljesa ˈbazna] ), sometimes known as Ilyaz and Iliaz [2] Bazna ( Albanian: [iliaz bazna]; [3] 28 July 1904 – 21 December 1970), was a secret agent for Nazi Germany during World War II, operating under the code name Cicero . In 1943, Bazna was hired as a valet by Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen, the British ambassador in ...