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Kosovo conflict: Quick Facts

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Facts

Date 1998 - 1999
Location Kosovo
Participants Kosovo • Kosovo Liberation Army • Montenegro • Serbia

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Secretary-General Kofi Annan stands at the center of a large crowd of Albanian refugees and media at the Stenkovec I camp in Macedonia, with tents and mountains in the background.
A Kosovar Albanian boy with muddy clothes sits on the ground eating bread and soup at a refugee camp, with other displaced people and mountains in the background.
Map of Kosovo and surrounding countries showing the ethnic composition by area as of 2008. Most of Kosovo is shaded in orange and red tones, indicating regions where over 60%, 80%, or 90% of the population is Albanian. Blue areas mark mostly Serbian populations, concentrated in the north and a few enclaves in the south. Areas outside Kosovo with significant Albanian populations are also highlighted. Major cities such as Pristina, Mitrovice, Peje, and Prizren are labeled.
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Key People

Kosovo President Hashim Thaci in 2018, wearing a dark suit, white shirt, and red patterned tie, with a blue background and part of a flag visible behind him.
Hashim Thaçi
president of Kosovo
Dayton Accords
Slobodan Milošević
president of Yugoslavia

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