Kosovo Liberation Army
Kosovo, considered the heartland of Serbia's Orthodox faith, has been embroiled in ethnic tensions since the late 1980s. Initially, the Serbs were the victims, but as the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) emerged, skirmishing became more or less mutual. The international community, through the Rambouillet peace initiative, pushed President
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Nato warplanes and missiles bombarded targets in and around Belgrade, the capital of Yugoslavia, while the Yugoslav military shifted forces in Kosovo to the southwestern region, where the Kosovo Liberation Army was regrouping for a possible last stand. The attacks came as the United States announced it was sending Apache
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Kosovo Albanian leader Ibrahim Rugova was shown on Serbian television agreeing with President Slobodan Milosevic on the need for peace and talks, contradicting his earlier statement calling for Nato ground troops to deploy in Kosovo. Rugova's remarks to Der Spiegel magazine last Monday criticized Milosevic's intentions
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Ibrahim Rugova, the ethnic Albanian leader, has spoken out against Nato's air-strikes in Yugoslavia, calling for an end to the bombings due to the growing humanitarian crisis in Kosovo. Rugova, often seen as a moderate, warned that the situation in Kosovo is "very tragic" and that
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US special envoy Richard Holbrooke is heading to Belgrade for last-minute talks with hard-line leader Slobodan Milosevic to persuade him to accept a Kosovo peace plan and avoid a NATO military attack. The chances of a last-minute agreement appear bleak, with fighting intensifying in the Serbian province and the Yugoslav
Kosovo Liberation Army
Tensions between the United States and Yugoslavia continued to escalate as a US envoy launched a "final effort" to persuade Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to accept a peace plan for Kosovo. The plan, already signed by Kosovo's Albanians, would grant sweeping autonomy to the southern province
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Nato leaders are signaling a commitment to military action if Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic fails to abide by the terms of a recent agreement aimed at ending fighting in Kosovo. Despite reports of ongoing humanitarian crises and massacres of ethnic Albanian civilians, the Yugoslav government continues to defy international pressure,
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Belgrade's harsh response to international diplomats and observers has cast a shadow over the fragile peace agreement in Kosovo, which was established last October under threat of NATO air strikes. The Yugoslav government's actions, including banning the head of the foreign observer mission and blocking the
Milosevic, Slobodan
As tensions in Kosovo continue to rise, Serbia's powerful state media machine has launched a vehement attack on the US, accusing it of conspiring with ethnic Albanian separatists to fabricate a "massacre" in the province. The US, however, maintains that Serbian security forces killed at least
Milosevic, Slobodan
General Wesley Clark, Nato's supreme commander for Europe, is set to hold crisis talks with Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic in Belgrade as the situation in Kosovo continues to deteriorate. The talks come after reports of a massacre by Serbian police, which led to the deaths of 45 ethnic
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British military bases are on high alert, with six B-52 bombers ready to launch airstrikes against Serbia in response to President Slobodan Milosevic's defiant stance on the Kosovo crisis. The Nato council is set to authorize military action, with the threat of a humanitarian catastrophe looming over the
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US special envoy Mr Richard Holbrooke held crisis talks with Yugoslavia's President Milosevic for a second time, as Nato forces gathered for possible air strikes to back United Nations demands over Kosovo. The situation remains tense, with ethnic Albanian guerrillas in Kosovo denying Serbian claims of an end
