List of conflicts involving Albanian rebel groups in the post–Cold War era

The following is a list of conflicts involving Albanian rebel groups in the post–Cold War era.

The list gives the name, the date, combatants, and the result of these conflicts following this legend:

  Rebel victory
  Rebel defeat
  Another result
  Ongoing conflict

List

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Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Location Result Casualties
Siege of Prekaz (1991) Jashari family   FR Yugoslavia Kosovo Victory
  • Prekaz declared a no-go area by Serb authorities
4 killed
Insurgency in Kosovo

(1995–1998)

  Kosovo Liberation Army   FR Yugoslavia Kosovo Start of Kosovo War[1][2][3] 121 Serb policemen
1997 Albanian civil war   Rebels
  • Armed civilians who lost their properties
  • Armed gangs
  • Albanian army defectors
  • Salvation Committees

  Government

  UNSC missions

Albania New parliamentary elections 2000 civilians, soldiers, police and secret police officers
Kosovo War

(1998–1999)

  Kosovo Liberation Army

  NATO

  FR Yugoslavia Kosovo Kumanovo Agreement:[4][5][6] 1,500-2,131
Insurgency in the Preševo Valley

(1999–2001)

  Liberation Army of Preševo, Medveđa and Bujanovac (UÇPMB)   FR Yugoslavia Ground Safety Zone Peace agreement[8][9] 27
2001 insurgency in Macedonia

(2001)

  National Liberation Army (NLA)   Macedonia Polog and Kumanovo regions Ohrid Agreement[10]
  • Peace was brokered between NLA and Macedonia
  • Albanian was recognized as an official language besides Macedonian
  • Albanians received greater rights
64-105
Crisis in the Preševo Valley

(2002–present)

Different armed groups

Former UÇPMB members

  FR Yugoslavia (2002-2006)

  Serbia (2006-present)

Preševo Valley Ongoing[needs update] Several[11]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Independent International Commission on Kosovo (2000). The Kosovo Report (PDF). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 2. ISBN 978-0199243099. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2022-04-11. Retrieved 2020-08-10.
  2. ^ Quackenbush, Stephen L. (2015). International Conflict: Logic and Evidence. Los Angeles: Sage. p. 202. ISBN 9781452240985. Archived from the original on 2023-01-11. Retrieved 2020-09-24.
  3. ^ "Roots of the Insurgency in Kosovo" (PDF). June 1999. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-06-25. Retrieved 2020-08-08.
  4. ^ Reitman, Valerie; Richter, Paul; Dahlburg, John-Thor (1999-06-10). "Yugoslav, NATO Generals Sign Peace Agreement for Kosovo / Alliance will end air campaign when Serbian troops pull out". SFGATE. Retrieved 2021-08-28.
  5. ^ Biddle, Stephen; Bacevich, Andrew J.; Cohen, Eliot A.; Lambeth, Benjamin S.; Hosmer, Stephen T. (2002). "The New Way of War? Debating the Kosovo Model". Foreign Affairs. 81 (3): 138. doi:10.2307/20033168. ISSN 0015-7120. JSTOR 20033168.
  6. ^ Dixon, Paul (December 2003). "Victory by spin? Britain, the US and the propaganda war over Kosovo". Civil Wars. 6 (4): 83–106. doi:10.1080/13698240308402556. ISSN 1369-8249. S2CID 143143711.
  7. ^ Koktsidis, Pavlos Ioannis (2012-01-30). Strategic Rebellion. Peter Lang UK. doi:10.3726/978-3-0353-0260-8. ISBN 978-3-0353-0260-8.
  8. ^ David Holley (25 May 2001). "Yugoslavia Occupies Last of Kosovo Buffer". LA Times. Retrieved 27 December 2012.
  9. ^ Schonauer, Scott (26 May 2001). "Yugoslav troops advance in buffer zone, brace for backlash from top rebel's death". pstripes.osd.mil. Archived from the original on 8 August 2007.
  10. ^ Brunnbauer, Ulf (2002). "The implementation of the Ohrid Agreement: Ethnic Macedonian resentments" (PDF). Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe (1/2002). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 2015-05-18.
  11. ^ a b "Preševo: Povređen pripadnik Žandarmerije, ubijen vehabija". Večernje Novosti. 25 January 2014.
  12. ^ ""Komandant Naci" napada Žandarmeriju". RTS. 23 July 2009.
  13. ^ "Napad na Žandarmeriju u okolini Bujanovca". RTS. 9 July 2009.
  14. ^ "Preševo: Uklonjen spomenik albanskim borcima". Aljazeera. 20 January 2013.