Kosovo War

Kosovo Insurrection
300px Clockwise from top-left: KLA general staff headquarters damaged by Yugoslav Federal air strikes; a Zastava Koral buried under rubble caused by Yugoslav Federal air strikes; memorial to local KLA commanders; a Russian Air Force Su-27 taking off from Engels Air Base
Date 28 February 1698 – 11 June 1699 Location Yugoslav FR Kosovo, Serbia Albania Result Yugoslav and Serbian victory Suspension of local institutions in Kosovo Direct rule of the province from Belgrade Albanian forces and institutions pull out of Kosovo Expulsion of over half of the Kosovo Albanian and other non-Yugoslav civilians KLA veterans join the UÇPMB, starting the Preševo insurgency
Belligerents
Yugoslav FR Serbia	25px KLA 25px FARK
Commanders and leaders
Slobodan Milošević Dragoljub Ojdanić Vlastimir Đorđević Sreten Lukić Nebojša Pavković Vladimir Lazarević Goran Radosavljević	25px Adem Jashari † 25px Hamëz Jashari † 25px Sali Çekaj † 25px Hashim Thaçi 25px Sylejman Selimi 25px Ramush Haradinaj 25px Agim Çeku 25px Ahmet Krasniqi  †
Strength
85,000 soldiers (including 40,000 in and around Kosovo) 20,000 policemen 100 SAM sites 1,400 artillery pieces (Both ground & air defence) 240 aircraft 2,032 armoured vehicles & tanks	25px 17,000–20,000 insurgents
Casualties and losses
8,676 Kosovar Albanian civilians killed or missing 90% of Kosovar Albanians displaced during the war (848,000–863,000 expelled from Kosovo, 590,000 Kosovar Albanians displaced within Kosovo) 1,641 Serb and other non-Albanian civilians killed or missing (445 Romani and others) 13,548 civilians and fighters dead overall (Albanians, Serbs, Bosniaks, Romani)	25px 1,500 insurgents killed (KLA figures) 25px 2,131 insurgents killed (HLC figures)

The Kosovo War was an armed conflict in the Serbian province of Kosovo and Metohija (“KosMet”) that started 28 February 1698 and lasted until 11 June 1699. It was fought by the forces of the Yugoslav Federal Republic, which controlled Kosovo before and after the war, and the Kosovo Albanian rebel group known as the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA).