Between 5,000 and 25,000 demonstrators of Albanian nationality call for SAP Kosovo to become a constituent republic inside Yugoslavia, as opposed to an autonomous province of Serbia.
End of demonstrations during which 9 people are killed and more than 250 injured.[2]
1991-1992
Date
Event
1991 (exact date unknown)
Croatian President Franjo Tuđman urges Kosovar Albanians to open a new front against Serbia and forms a new special Croatian Army unit with 400 Albanian soldiers which were supposed to be sent to Kosovo. However, after negotiations with Bujar Bukoshi fell through, the Kosovar-Albanian unit was dispatched in October and reincorporated.[3][4]
30 December 1991
Siege of Prekaz. Serbian police besiege the Jashari house but are forced to retreat from Prekaz.[5]
June–August: KLA Summer offensive (1998). KLA strategic failure. KLA captures 40% of Kosovo but are soon overrun by Yugoslav offensive. Yugoslav forces retake most eastern towns. 80 Serbian police officers are killed. 70+ KLA fighters killed.
1-3 June: Dečani operation. Victory for the MUP and the JSO, clearing of most of southwestern Kosovo from KLA units.
9 June: Yugoslav Offensive on Albanian Border. Over 250 KLA weapons seized. Yugoslav Victory[25]
27 July: Battles for Gornja and Donja Klina. Yugoslav Victory[31]
July-4 October: Yugoslav counter-offensive in Kosovo (1998). Yugoslav victory. Yugoslavia recaptures and established control over most of Kosovo. Ceasefire agreement on 4 October. KLA is weakened.[32]
31 July: Clash near Lipljan. Yugoslav victory, KLA suffers 8 killed and several captured.[18]
1 August: Offensive on Josanica. Yugoslav victory, Yugoslav forces drive out KLA from their positions in Josanica, Srbica-Klina road opened.[18]
2–4 August: Yugoslav offensive in Drenica in August. Yugoslav victory. Several villages including Llaushë were captured. Thousands of Kosovo Albanian civilians were driven into the hills.[18][33]
3 August: Offensive in Klina. Yugoslav victory, 9 villages came under Yugoslav control[18]
1-30 August: Drenica attacks. KLA victory. 17 Yugoslav soldiers killed by KLA attacks in the Drenica Valley.
September: Lake Radonjić Operation. MUP and JSO victory. Yugoslav troops capture Lake Radonjić.
11 September: Attack on Rezalla. KLA victory. Yugoslav forces attmept to enter Rezalla through Llausha and Marina but are stopped by the KLA. Heavy Yugoslav shelling leads to the death of several Albanian civilians.[39][40]
8 October: KLA commander of the 112th Brigade "Arben Haliti", Abedin Rexha is murdered in Klladërnica, a village near Skenderaj under unclear circumstances. The Killer was later confirmed to be Gani Geci, another KLA soldier during the war.[47][48]
15 October: Holbrooke-Milošević Agreement. Ceasefire in Kosovo starts after an agreement between Richard Holbrooke and Slobodan Milošević for a temporary Yugoslav withdrawal. Yugoslav withdrawal commenced on 25 October. KLA re-establishes control in some places that didn't have Yugoslav presence and that had Albanian majority and reorganizes. Ceasefire broken in early December after an ambush on the Albanian-Yugoslav border.[49]
24–26 December. Yugoslav Winter offensive. Yugoslav victory. Yugoslav forces shelled several villages near the northern town of Podujevo and entered Lapastica on 24th December which was KLA stronghold, but withdrew from the village two days after.[52][53]
1999
1 January: Battle near Štimlje. Yugoslav victory.[54][55]
8 January: Ambush near Kosovska mitrovica. The KLA ambushed a column of MUP vehicles near Kosovska Mitrovica, killing three soldiers and wounding many more. Eight VJ soldiers were captured.[60]
15 January: Račak fighting (1999) MUP victory, Yugoslav forces take control over Račak and KLA withdrawal.[61]
16 January: Southern Kosovo Clashes. 15 Militants Killed. Yugoslav Victory[62]
20 January: Skirmishes near Kosovska Mitrovica. Yugoslav Victory.[63][64]
27 January: Yugoslav forces returned in Drenica, specifically in villages of Glogovac, Lapushnik and Kijevo, they also remained heavily deployed in Račak.[65]
27–29 January: Battle of Rogovo. Yugoslav victory.[66]
27 February: Battle of Vucitrn. Yugoslav victory. Yugoslav army overran KLA positions, KLA forced to withdraw.[67]
1 March: Clashes in Orahovac. Yugoslav Victory. Civilians flee the area.[68]
11 March: Second battle of Ješkovo, Yugoslav victory.[69]
15-16 March: Fighting in Podujevo; burning reported in the villages of Oshlane and Pantin.[70]
17 March: Yugoslav offensive on Kabash. Yugoslav victory. Yugoslav forces capture Kabash and KLA stronghold.[71]
19 March: Attacks on the Police stations in Drenas, Skenderaj and Lluzhan. KLA victory. Start of a Yugoslav offensive in the regions of Drenica and Llap.[72][73]
20-21 March: Yugoslav offensive on Skenderaj. Inconclusive. 10 civilians executed.[76]
20-31 March: Yugoslav spring offensive in Kosovo. Yugoslav victory. Capture of dozen of villages and territories in Srbica and Glogovac municipalities, establishment of yugoslav control over the area and crimes against albanian population. Yugoslav forces temporary withdrew allowing KLA to retain it's presence in area.[77][78][79]
24 March-15 May: Second Battle of Rezalla. KLA victory despite the Death of Malush Ahmeti. Yugoslav forces fail to penetrate or capture Rezalla.[39][40]
25 March: Aircraft chase from Batajnica. NATO victory. 2 Yugoslav MiG-29's chase a NATO aircraft from Batajnica but are then attacked by 2 NATO F-15. Both MiG-29's are shotdown
31 March: Incident near Yugoslav–Macedonian border. 3 US soldiers captured.[83]
6 April: Crmljanska Suka offensive. Yugoslav victory. Yugoslav forces managed to defeat KLA who had NATO air support and captured Crmljanska Suka, Jablanica and Kraljane.[84]
7 April: Second Battle of Pastasellë. Yugoslav victory. Temporary Yugoslav control of Pastasellë.[85][citation needed]
8 April: KLA forces kill Serbian police commander Salipur Vidomir and destroy one Jeep near Peć.[86]
9 April-10 June 1999: Battle of Košare. Yugoslav victory. KLA and NATO are unable to make further advances.[87][88]
10 April: Yugoslav mount an offensive against 7 KLA strongholds which would later fall into the hands of Yugoslavia.[89]
Mid April: Yugoslav forces carry out several offensives on KLA strongholds in the Regions of Shala e Bajgorës, Drenica, Jezerc, Rugova, Çyçavica and other places.[90]
April: Zllash torture. 6 civilians tortured and 1 civilian killed by KLA.
30 April: Battle of Shtuticë. Yugoslav victory. Death of Ilaz Kodra.[93]
May: Operations in Llap. Yugoslav victory. Capture of major KLA stronghold in Upper Lapaštica, clearing of eastern Llap from the KLA and complete defeat of the KLA in that area.[94]
By May Yugoslav army managed to largely suppress the KLA in Kosovo[95]
1 May: Fighting near Vučitrn. KLA victory. 2 Yugoslav police officers killed. Civilians flee from Vučitrn. Start of the Vučitrn massacre.[96]
By 12 May KLA didn't had any presence or were defeated in Dragobilje, Likovac, Obrinje, Budakovo, Čičavica, Lapaštica and Metohija.[97]
12 May: NATO spokesperson Jamie Shea states that Yugoslav forces are trying to capture KLA strongholds and that there are 10,000–15,000 volunteers in the KLA fighting against Yugoslav troops.[98][99] This claim was later proven to be false as Yugoslav forces controlled and captured the majority of Kosovo at that point, including key KLA strongholds, defeating them in many areas with only some small groups remaining active.[100][95]
25 May: Thousands of anti-war protesters, including many soldiers who have deserted from Kosovo, rally in southern and central Serbia, calling for the withdrawal of conscript troops from the conflict zone. Despite efforts by two high-ranking Yugoslav army generals to ease tensions, around 2,000 people gather outside the municipal hall in Krusevac to oppose a regional call-up. Similar protests take place in Aleksandrovac and Raska.[6]
26-29 May: Tusuz massacre. Serbian police kills 27 Albanian civilians.[104]
26 May-10 June: Battle of Pashtrik. KLA–NATO strategic failure and end of war in Yugoslav military victory.[105] KLA captures Mount Pashtrik but fails to reach its main objective.[106][107]
30 May: Ambush near Orlate, Yugoslav victory. Death of Rasim Kiçina.
2 June: Belanici offensive. Yugoslav victory. Yugoslav forces and volunteers attacked KLA stronghold in Belanica, where after days of fighting managed to defeat the KLA and capture the stronghold.[108]
6 September: Ranilug incident. In an incident near the village of Ranilug, a Russian KFOR patrol shoots and kills 3 Serbian gunmen who attacked a carload of ethnic Albanians.[113]
5 October: Albanians clash with armed Serb civilians and Russian and French KFOR in Mitrovica. 10 Albanians, 10 French, 6 Russians wounded and 1 Russian Tank destroyed. 3 Serbs killed and several injured.[114]
26 February: A prominent serb medical doctor was murdered in Gnjilane.
29 February: A Russian KFOR soldier was killed in Srbica.
February: A UN bus transporting Serb refugees in Mitrovica was hit by an anti-tank missile, and a grenade was thrown into a Serb café the same month, resulting in rioting by Serb civilians. 8 people killed.[115]
February: A Yugoslav police officer and physician were killed, and 3 officers and a physician were wounded in Kosovska Mitrovica.
15 March: FRY file a complain after 16 serbian civilians were injured by grenade attacks in North Mitrovica.
6 June: A grenade is thrown at a crowd of Serbians waiting for the bus in Gračanica. 3 civilians were injured.
^"A Kosovo Chronology". www.pbs.org. Early Aug. 1998 Serbian forces intensify their summer offensive, attack KLA and Kosovo Albanian villages in Drenica region, driving thousands into the hills.
^Perlez, Jane (15 November 1998). "Ethnic Albanians Recount Massacre of a Family in Kosovo". The New York Times. Retrieved 7 December 2025. The Serbian forces fighting here appear to have suffered unusually heavy losses and, after the guerillas finally fled, took revenge against the civilians, shooting women and children at close range as they tried to run away from their pursuers.
^"Guerrillas in Kosovo Rebound, Provoking Concern". The New York Times. 11 November 1998. In essence, he said, when the Serbian onslaught became too intense many of the fighters fled to the hills with the civilians and have now returned with their uniforms back on.
^"World: Europe Kosovo fighting flares again". 26 December 1998. Hopes of returning to a peaceful standoff had been raised after Serb forces withdrew two days after launching a large offensive on the rebel-controlled village of Lapastica.
^Krieger, Heike (2001). The Kosovo Conflict and International Law: An Analytical Documentation 1974-1999. Cambridge University Press. p. 89. ISBN 978-0-521-80071-6
^"Killings in the Izbica area"(PDF). amnesty.org. Despite ongoing Serbian and FRY military activity, KLA units succeeded in retaining an active presence in the area.
^"PO NAREDJENJU Ratni zločini na Kosovu"(PDF). hrw.org. The offensive of the Serbian and Yugoslav authorities in Kosovo, which began on March 20, 1999, four days before the beginning of the bombing of NATO, was methodically planned and well executed...The greatest suffering occurred in areas that had historical ties with the KLA. The municipalities of Glogovac and Srbica, in the Drenica region — the cradle of the KLA — were the sites of multiple massacres of civilians, arbitrary arrests, torture, as well as systematic destruction of homes and other property belonging to civilians.
^Krieger, Heike (2001). The Kosovo Conflict and International Law: An Analytical Documentation 1974-1999. Cambridge University Press. p. 56. ISBN 9780521800716. At the end of March, Serb military forces undertook joint offensives throughout the municipality of Srbica. Villages were shelled by military forces and then entered and set on fire by police and paramilitary groups...Serb forces surrounded, shelled and eventually entered Cirez...Serb forces used the same tactics in other villages /izbica, Rudnik, Ozrim, Leocina, Kladernica./ of Srbica municipality...At the end of March, Serb forces entered these villages...
^"KOSOVO / KOSOVA As Seen, As Told"(PDF). p. 328. On 30 March, attacks began in the Negrovce area and the UCK advised villagers to move to safer territory, in the Vucak valley towards the Trdevac/Terdec village.
^"Serb's Offensive was Meticulously Planned". washingtonpost.com. April 10, 1999. Yugoslav forces have overrun all seven strongholds of the secessionist Kosovo Liberation Army.
^Milovan, Drecun (2004). Drugi kosovski boj. M. Drecun, 2004. pp. 255–261. ISBN 9788684771096.
^ abLogos, Aleksandar A. (2019). Istorija Srba 1, Dopuna 4; Istorija Srba 5 (in Serbian). Beograd. p. 327. ISBN 978-86-85117-46-6. The Pristina Corps, with about 70,000 men, had largely suppressed the KLA in Kosovo, but there were still 10,000 to 15,000 KLA members in Albania...{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^Kosovo Liberation Army: The Inside Story of an Insurgency. University of Illinois Press. October 2010. p. 199. ISBN 9780252092138. Operation Arrow was major KLA offensive launched in May 26, 1999. It involved up to four thousand KLA fighters, and was intended to eliminate Serb units operating near Albanian border to open up the arms supply for KLA again. Though the initiative may have lured VJ forces out of their places of concealment making it easier for NATO airpower to attack them, the operation was not a success.
^Milovan, Drecun (2004). Drugi kosovski boj. M. Drecun, 2004. pp. 250–252. ISBN 9788684771096.
