Operation Allied Force in Kosovo – The conflict by numbers
Nato suspended its air campaign against Yugoslavia after 78 days of bombing sorties over the Balkans. An accurate assessment of the campaign is impossible due to the nature of the conflict. The following assessment of the toll of the conflict…
Focus on Kosovo – Archive and Coverage of NATO Airstrikes in Yugoslavia
Operation Allied Force was the military response of NATO to the 1999 Kosovo crisis, and the first major combat operation in NATO history. On March 24, 1999, NATO launched an attack on Yugoslavia, making good on a long-standing threat to…
Operation Allied Force blasts Yugoslavia – March 24, 1999: Cruise missiles, B-2 bombers used in first strike
March 24, 1999 – Scores of NATO cruise missiles, along with fighter planes and stealth bombers, pounded Yugoslavia on Wednesday night, following through on a long-standing threat to attack if Serbs refused to sign a peace plan for Kosovo. At…
NATO attack on Yugoslavia begins – March 24, 1999
March 24, 1999 – Explosions ripped through Kosovo and outside Belgrade on Wednesday evening as NATO launched cruise missiles against Yugoslavia, following through on a long-standing threat to strike if Serbs refused to sign a U.S.-drafted peace accord for Kosovo….
Milosevic tells citizens to defend Yugoslavia – March 24, 1999
March 24, 1999 – Despite looming NATO airstrikes, Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic on Wednesday remained defiant and called on his people to defend the country „by all means.“ Milosevic delivered the appeal in a nationally televised address. Milosevic urged Yugoslav…
NATO orders military strikes against Yugoslavia – March 23, 1999
March 23, 1999 – NATO Secretary-General Javier Solana has ordered military strikes against Yugoslavia following the failure of a last-minute mission to persuade Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to agree to a U.S.-drafted peace plan. Solana: All efforts to achieve a…
Kosovo Albanians sign peace document – Pressure mounts on stalling Yugoslavs – March 18, 1999
March 18, 1999 – The ethnic Albanian delegation at the Kosovo peace talks in Paris on Thursday signed a peace document that the international community had hoped would help end the separatist conflict in the Serbian province. The ethnic Albanian…
Yugoslavia agrees to withdraw forces from Kosovo – Pullout to begin Thursday
June 9, 1999 – Yugoslav and NATO generals signed an agreement late Wednesday on the withdrawal of Yugoslav troops from Kosovo, following a marathon session of intense talks near the Yugoslav-Macedonian border. „The war has ended,“ Yugoslav Col. Gen. Svetozar…
Stealth Nighthawk downed in Yugoslavia – Rescued pilot safe in Italy as NATO campaign continues
March 28, 1999 – Explosions boomed through Belgrade Sunday and air raid sirens sounded, the morning after the dramatic rescue of a NATO pilot who survived after his warplane went down in Yugoslavia. Officials said the pilot, who was not…
Two jets crash in Kosovo campaign – 2 NATO warplanes down in Kosovo operation
May 2, 1999 – While three American servicemen held for a month in Yugoslavia made their way to freedom in Germany on Sunday, NATO reported that it had lost two U.S. aircraft in its Kosovo air campaign. An F-16 crashed…