NATO Bombing of Koriša

Date: May 13, 1999 • Location: Šipkovica, Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of

Kosovo War: NATO bombs the village of Koriša, killing at least 87 people.

The Kosovo War was an armed conflict in Kosovo that lasted from 28 February 1998 until 11 June 1999. It was fought between the forces of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY), which controlled Kosovo before the war, and the Kosovo Albanian separatist militia known as the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). The conflict ended when the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) intervened by beginning air strikes in March 1999 which resulted in Yugoslav forces withdrawing from Kosovo.