Kosovo War: Late 1990s armed conflict in Kosovo
The Kosovo War was a controversial war that took place from 1998 to 1999 in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
The Kosovo Liberation Army fought the Yugoslavian army from 1998 to 1999. In 1999 NATO bombed Yugoslavia to prevent genocide in Kosovo.
| Kosovo War | |||||||||
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| Part of the Yugoslav Wars | |||||||||
 Clockwise from top-left: Yugoslav general staff headquarters damaged by NATO air strikes; a Zastava Koral buried under rubble caused by NATO air strikes; memorial to local KLA commanders; a USAF F-15E taking off from Aviano Air Base | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
| |  Yugoslavia | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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 Kudusi Lama |
Vladimir Lazarević Sreten Lukić | ||||||||
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 cca. 80 aircraft(Operation Eagle Eye) 1,031 aircraft(Operation Allied Force) 30+ warships and submarines |
 Russian volunteers, unknown number | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
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 Possible unknown number of DGSE officers killed | Caused by KLA: 1,084 killed (per the HLC) | ||||||||
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References
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