Kosovo
15 images Created 13 Sep 2009
The seeds of unrest and conflict in the Balkans can be traced back as far as history has been recorded. After years of simmering tensions, fighting erupted in Kosovo in 1998 between the majority Albanians and the Serbs. Nearly one year later, NATO launched a 78-day bombing campaign and the world watched as hundreds of thousands of refugees fled to Albania, Macedonia and Montenegro.