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Timeline: Interventions in the Balkans



LONDON, England -- A chronology of Western military intervention in the former Yugoslavia since the republic started breaking up in 1991.

January 3, 1992 -- U.N. brokers cease-fire between the Croatian government and rebel Serbs, and the U.N. Protection Force (UNPROFOR) puts 14,000 peacekeeping troops in Croatia.

July 1992 -- NATO agrees to use naval force in Adriatic to review compliance with U.N. sanctions imposed on Serbia and Montenegro, which make up the Yugoslav state. The following year the naval force is given powers to enforce the sanctions.

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April 1993 -- NATO begins combat patrols with fighters over Bosnia to enforce compliance with U.N. ban on flights, in "Operation Deny Flight."

February 1994 -- U.S. fighters, part of the NATO force, shoot down four Serb light attack aircraft violating a U.N. ban on flights over Bosnia. It is NATO's first combat action since it was founded in 1949 to counter Soviet military power in Europe.

December 19, 1995 -- NATO-led Implementation Force (IFOR) starts deployment in Bosnia in December to establish the Dayton peace agreement, separating forces, preparing for elections and helping the country's reconstruction to begin. The 60,000-strong force consists of troops from the United States, France, Britain and about 20 other NATO and non-NATO countries.

December 20, 1996 -- The NATO-led Stabilisation Force (SFOR) is set up to secure peace in Bosnia, replacing IFOR. SFOR has some 20,000 troops on the ground and its mandate is open-ended. SFOR oversees the activities of the two entities' armies, which remain separate under the peace accords.

March 18-19, 1999 -- Kosovo Albanians sign peace deal in France but Yugoslavia rejects it. Peace talks end in failure.

March 20, 1999 -- All 1,380 international OSCE monitors withdraw from Kosovo, crossing into neighbouring Macedonia as the Yugoslav army sends reinforcements into the area.

March 24, 1999 -- NATO launches air campaign against military targets in Yugoslavia in first offensive action against a sovereign nation in the alliance's 50-year history.

June 10, 1999 -- NATO suspends its bombing campaign after Serb troops begin to withdraw from Kosovo and allow thousands of NATO-led peacekeeping troops (KFOR) into the province to enforce peace and allow establishment of U.N. administration.

August 15, 2001 -- NATO ambassadors approve the deployment of 3,500 troops to Macedonia to collect weapons from ethnic Albanian rebels who have waged a six-month uprising.






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