The Kosovo War was fought from 1998 to 1999 between Yugoslav and Serbian security forces and the ethnic Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army, which sought independence for the Serbian province of Kosovo. Serbian operations against Kosovo Albanian civilians produced mass displacement widely characterized internationally as ethnic cleansing, prompting NATO to launch a seventy-eight day bombing campaign against Yugoslav military and infrastructure targets in the spring of 1999 without prior United Nations Security Council authorization. The war ended when Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic agreed to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo, after which the territory was placed under United Nations administration and international peacekeeping, a status that preceded its unilateral declaration of independence in 2008.
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CombatantsFederal Republic of Yugoslavia vs the Kosovo Liberation Army, later joined by NATO 1 OutcomeKumanovo Agreement; Yugoslav forces withdrew from Kosovo under UN Resolution 1244 1 Classification
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28 February 1998
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11 June 1999
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It was fought between the forces of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY), which controlled Kosovo before the war, and the Kosovo Albanian separatist militia known as the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA).
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Yugoslav forces pull out of Kosovo United Nations Resolution 1244 Return of Albanian refugees Flight or expulsion of over half of the Serb and other non-Albanian civilians Establishment of KFOR
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Infobox casualties: Total: 13,548 fighters and civilians of all ethnicities dead
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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.
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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. It was fought between the forces of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY), which controlled Kosovo before the war, and the Kosovo Albanian separatist militia known as the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA).
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An anti-electrical weapon, the CBU-94/B, was first used by the US in the Kosovo War in 1999.
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Primarily designed as a nuclear bomber, the B-2 was first used in combat to drop conventional ordnance in the Kosovo War in 1999.
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T-55s were also used by Yugoslavia in the Kosovo War and Macedonia (now North Macedonia) during the 2001 insurgency in Macedonia and by Russian peacekeepers after the withdrawal of Yugoslav forces from Kosovo.
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T-55s were also used by Yugoslavia in the Kosovo War and Macedonia (now North Macedonia) during the 2001 insurgency in Macedonia and by Russian peacekeepers after the withdrawal of Yugoslav forces from Kosovo.
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The BRDM-2 was also used by the Yugoslav Army (VJ) against the KLA during the Kosovo war.
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