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War in Kosovo

Kosovo War
Part of the Yugoslav Wars
Kosovo War header.jpg
Clockwise from top-left: Yugoslav general staff headquarters damaged by NATO air strikes; a Yugo buried under rubble caused by NATO air strikes; memorial to local KLA commanders; a USAF F-15E taking off from Aviano Air Base
Date 5 March 1998 – 11 June 1999
(1 year, 3 months and 6 days)
Location Kosovo (then part of FR Yugoslavia)
Result

Kumanovo Treaty

Territorial
changes
No legal changes to Yugoslav borders according to the Resolution 1244, but effective political and economic separation of Kosovo from FR Yugoslavia under United Nations administration
Belligerents

Kosovo Liberation Army KLA



Minor border incident:

 Albania
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia FR Yugoslavia
Commanders and leaders

Kosovo Liberation Army Adem Jashari 
Kosovo Liberation Army Hashim Thaçi
Kosovo Liberation Army Bilall Syla
Kosovo Liberation Army Hamëz Jashari  
Kosovo Liberation Army Sylejman Selimi
Kosovo Liberation Army Ramush Haradinaj
Kosovo Liberation Army Agim Çeku


NATO Wesley Clark


Albania Kudusi Lama

Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Dragoljub Ojdanić
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Nebojša Pavković
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Vlastimir Đorđević
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Vladimir Lazarević

Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Sreten Lukić
Strength

Kosovo Liberation Army 17,000 – 20,000 KLA insurgents


NATO cca. 80 aircraft
(Operation Eagle Eye)
NATO 1,031 aircraft
(Operation Allied Force)
NATO 30+ warships and submarines

Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 85,000 soldiers (including 40,000 in and around Kosovo)
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 20,000 policemen
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 100 SAM sites
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 1,400 artillery pieces
(Both ground & air defence)
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 240 aircraft
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 2,032 armoured vehicles & tanks

Russia Russian volunteers, unknown number
Casualties and losses

Kosovo Liberation Army 1,500 insurgents killed (per the KLA)
Kosovo Liberation Army 2,057 insurgents killed (per the HLC)


United States 2 killed (non-combat) and 3 captured
United States 2 aircraft shot down and 3 damaged
United States Two AH-64 Apaches and an AV-8B Harrier crashed (non-combat)
NATO 47 UAVs shot down

France Possible unknown number of DGSE officers killed

Caused by KLA:
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 300+ soldiers killed (per the Yugoslav Army)
Caused by NATO:
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 1,008–1,200 killed
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 14 tanks, 18 APCs, 20 artillery pieces and 121 aircraft and helicopters destroyed

Caused by KLA and NATO:
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 1,035 killed (per the HLC)

Albania 8,661 Kosovar Albanian civilians killed or missing
Albania 90% of Kosovar Albanians displaced during the war(848,000–863,000 expelled from Kosovo, 590,000 Kosovar Albanians displaced within Kosovo)
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 1,730–3,500 Serb and other non-Albanian civilians killed or missing
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 230,000 Kosovo Serbs, Romani and other non-Albanian civilians displaced
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia/Albania 453–2,500 civilian deaths caused by NATO bombing (per the HLC and Tanjug; also includes China 3 Chinese journalists killed)

13,548 civilians and fighters dead overall (Albanians, Serbs, Bosniaks, Roma)

Kumanovo Treaty

Kosovo Liberation Army KLA

Minor border incident:

Kosovo Liberation Army Adem Jashari 
Kosovo Liberation Army Hashim Thaçi
Kosovo Liberation Army Bilall Syla
Kosovo Liberation Army Hamëz Jashari  
Kosovo Liberation Army Sylejman Selimi
Kosovo Liberation Army Ramush Haradinaj
Kosovo Liberation Army Agim Çeku


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