| Kosovo War |
|---|
| Part of the Yugoslav Wars |
Clockwise from top-left: Yugoslav general staff headquarters damaged by NATO air strikes; a Zastava Koral buried under rubble caused by NATO air strikes; memorial to local KLA commanders; a USAF F-15E taking off from Aviano Air Base |
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| Belligerents |
|---|
 KLA
|  Yugoslavia |
| Commanders and leaders |
|---|
Adem Jashari †
Hashim Thaçi
Bilall Syla
Hamëz Jashari †
Sylejman Selimi
Ramush Haradinaj
Agim Çeku
 Wesley Clark
 Kudusi Lama |  Slobodan Milošević
Dragoljub Ojdanić
Nebojša Pavković
Vlastimir Đorđević
Vladimir Lazarević
Sreten Lukić |
| Strength |
|---|
17,000–20,000 KLA insurgents
cca. 80 aircraft
(Operation Eagle Eye)
1,031 aircraft
(Operation Allied Force)
30+ warships and submarines | 85,000 soldiers (including 40,000 in and around Kosovo)
20,000 policemen
100 SAM sites
1,400 artillery pieces
(Both ground & air defence)
240 aircraft
2,032 armoured vehicles & tanks
 Serbian paramilitary units (Šakali, Škorpioni), unknown number  Russian volunteers, unknown number |
| Casualties and losses |
|---|
1,500 insurgents killed (per the KLA)
2,131 insurgents killed (per the HLC)
 2 killed (non-combat) and 3 captured
2 aircraft shot down and 3 damaged[25][26][27][28]
Two AH-64 Apaches and an AV-8B Harrier crashed (non-combat)[29]
47 UAVs shot down[30]
 Possible unknown number of DGSE officers killed[31] | Caused by KLA:
624 Yugoslav soldiers and Serbian policemen killed[32]
Caused by NATO:
1,008–1,200 killed
14 tanks,[37] 18 APCs, 20 artillery pieces and 121 aircraft and helicopters destroyed[39]
Caused by KLA and NATO:
1,084 killed (per the HLC) |
8,676 Kosovar Albanian civilians killed or missing
90% of Kosovar Albanians displaced during the war[40](848,000–863,000 expelled from Kosovo,[41][42][43] 590,000 Kosovar Albanians displaced within Kosovo)[40]
1,641–2,500[44] Serb and other non-Albanian civilians killed or missing (445 Roma and others)
230,000 Kosovo Serbs, Romani and other non-Albanian civilians displaced[45]
/ Civilian deaths caused by NATO bombing: 489–528 (per Human Rights Watch)[46] or 453–2,500 (per the HLC and Tanjug);[44] also includes  3 Chinese journalists killed
13,548 civilians and fighters dead overall (Albanians, Serbs, Bosniaks, Roma)[47] |
