NATO bombs Yugoslavia
March 24, 1999
Over seventy-eight days, NATO planes bombed Serbian targets without UN authorization, trying to stop the expulsion of Albanians from Kosovo. Slobodan Milosevic eventually pulled his forces back. Kosovo became a NATO protectorate. It was the first time the alliance had fought an offensive war. A new model of humanitarian intervention had arrived.
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