Serbia, as a constituent subject of the SFR Yugoslavia and later the FR Yugoslavia, was involved in the Yugoslav Wars, which took place between 1991 and 1999—the war in Slovenia, the Croatian War of Independence, the Bosnian War, and Kosovo.

Often described as one of Europe's deadliest armed conflicts since World War II, the Yugoslav Wars were marked by many war crimes, including genocide, crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing, massacres, and mass wartime rape.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) carried out an aerial bombing campaign against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia during the Kosovo War. The air strikes lasted from 24 March 1999 to 10 June 1999.

2 days ago · The Belgrade police said the protesters numbered 107,000 while students at Belgrade University’s faculty of dramatic arts, which helped organize the rally, put the turnout at 800,000.

This year, as we commemorate the 150th anniversary of Robert E. Lee’s surrender to General Grant to end the war, the town of Belgrade remembers and honors an unsung Civil War hero of our own, Brevet Major Greenlief T. Stevens.

Massive student protests in Belgrade, Vučić warns of clashes. Massive student protests will be held in Belgrade today, while Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić claims that their goal is to incite civil war and seize power by force. The students, who …

Oct 22, 2024 · Belgrade women greet their liberators, the Red Army soldiers. By the end of September 1944, the troops of the 2nd and 3rd Ukrainian Fronts (UF), having defeated large German groups on the southern wing of the Soviet-German front, opened the way to the capitals of Hungary and Austria - Budapest and Vienna, and reached the border of Yugoslavia.

2 days ago · Massive crowds flood Belgrade as months of protests reach boiling point After sweeping the country, ever-growing anti-government demonstrations have circled back to the Serbian capital. ... Minister Ana Brnabić accused protesting students and professors in Belgrade of “instigating a coup d’état and civil war in the Republic of Serbia ...

Mar 22, 2019 · Twenty years after the start of NATO’s air strikes to force Slobodan Milosevic’s troops to withdraw from Kosovo, reporters who covered the bombing campaign recall the 78 days of violence, terror...

Jul 7, 2011 · The war in the former Yugoslavia was not a civil war as often asserted, but a war of aggression by the Serbian regime in Belgrade, led Slobodan Milosevic, with the aim of creating a "Greater Serbian" state.