Kosovo War

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1. A brief war fought in 1999 between NATO and Serbia, the main remnant of the former Yugoslavia, over the status of the Yugoslavian province of Kosovo. In 1998, Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic sent Serbian troops to take back areas of Kosovo controlled by ethnic Albanian guerrillas, triggering a NATO air campaign in 1999. The war ended when Serbia agreed to a peace agreement sponsored by the United Nations.

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The Kosovo War was NATO's first military engagement. It was controversial in part because NATO was not repelling an attack on member states but intervening in what was arguably an internal affair.

Example Sentences

The site has remained unrestored since it was repeatedly bombed in 1999 during NATO's air campaign that ended the Kosovo war.

From Barron's

The first person to respond was fellow passenger Adrian Heili, who had served as a combat medic during the Kosovo war.

From BBC

Air Force during the Kosovo war that destroyed the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade, the Serbian capital.

From New York Times

Before he was cast in “The White Lotus,” Bikovic acted in movies including “South Wind,” which follows a gang member in Belgrade; “Sunstroke,” about military officers remembering the collapse of the Russian Empire; “Ice,” in which he plays a figure skater; and “The Balkan Line,” about a military operation during the Kosovo war.

From New York Times

Speaking in a new interview with Rolling Stone, she said her worldview had been shaped by her parents' experience of fleeing the Kosovo war in the late 1990s.

From BBC