KLA training exercises, 1998. Photo: Paul S. Refsdal.
1998-1999
Armed Resistance
Mujë Krasniqi, injured and using crutches, among soldiers of the Kosovo Liberation Army. Between Caravik, Klinë, and Murgë, Skenderaj, 1998. Photo: Paul S. Refsdal.
Women soldiers of the Kosovo Liberation Army, 1998. Photo: Paul S. Refsdal.
KLA training exercises, 1998. Photo: Paul S. Refsdal.
KLA training exercises, 1998. Photo: Paul S. Refsdal.
KLA training exercises, 1998. Photo: Paul S. Refsdal.
KLA training exercises, 1998. Photo: Paul S. Refsdal.
KLA training exercises, 1998. Photo: Paul S. Refsdal.
Members of the Kosovo Liberation Army visit a patient in hospital, 1998. Photo: Paul S. Refsdal.
The KLA’s elite special unit, the ‘Black Tigers’, 1998. Photo: Paul S. Refsdal.
The KLA’s elite special unit, the ‘Black Tigers’, 1998. Photo: Paul S. Refsdal.
A group of Serbian police officers patrol the road near the village of Rudnik after the joint Yugoslav Army and Serbian police forces took control of the area the previous day. Rudnik, July 30, 1998. Photo: Goran Tomašević / Reuters.
Serbian police shelter behind sandbags amid tensions following fighting between the KLA and Serbian forces in Rahovec. Rahovec, July 22, 1998. Photo: Goran Tomašević / Reuters.
Serbian police clean their weapons and rest after overnight clashes with the Kosovo Liberation Army in the village of Zoçishtë. Zoçishtë, August 20, 1998. Photo: Goran Tomašević / Reuters.
A Serbian police officer patrols outside the entrance to a house marked with the initials of the KLA, one day after clashes between the Kosovo Liberation Army and Serbian police. Zoçishtë, August 21, 1998. Photo: Goran Tomašević / Reuters.
Members of the Kosovo Liberation Army marking November 28. Prekaz, November 28, 1998. Photo: Ilaz Bylykbashi.
Members of the Kosovo Liberation Army marking November 28. Prekaz, November 28, 1998. Photo: Ilaz Bylykbashi.
Members of the Kosovo Liberation Army marking November 28. Prekaz, November 28, 1998. Photo: Ilaz Bylykbashi.
The ‘Atlantic’ Battalion, composed of Albanian volunteers from the United States, enters Kosovo. April 1999. Photo: Besnik Mehmeti.
The ‘Atlantic’ Battalion, composed of Albanian volunteers from the United States, enters Kosovo. April 1999. Photo: Besnik Mehmeti.
KLA in Koshare, March–June 1999. Photo: Besnik Mehmeti.
KLA in Koshare, March–June 1999. Photo: Besnik Mehmeti.
KLA in Koshare, March–June 1999. Photo: Besnik Mehmeti.
KLA in Koshare, March–June 1999. Photo: Besnik Mehmeti.
Kosovo Liberation Army soldiers around a fire at the KLA camp in Koshare, 1999. Photo: Besnik Mehmeti.
Kosovo Liberation Army soldiers around a fire at the KLA camp in Koshare, 1999. Photo: Besnik Mehmeti.
Kosovo Liberation Army soldiers around a fire at the KLA camp in Koshare, 1999. Photo: Besnik Mehmeti.
Women soldiers of the Kosovo Liberation Army at the KLA camp in Koshare, 1999. Photo: Besnik Mehmeti.
Women soldiers of the Kosovo Liberation Army at the KLA camp in Koshare, 1999. Photo: Besnik Mehmeti.
Women soldiers of the Kosovo Liberation Army at the KLA camp in Koshare, 1999. Photo: Besnik Mehmeti.
Women soldiers of the Kosovo Liberation Army at the KLA camp in Koshare, 1999. Photo: Besnik Mehmeti.
KLA in Koshare, March–June 1999. Photo: Besnik Mehmeti.
KLA in Koshare, March–June 1999. Photo: Besnik Mehmeti.
KLA in Koshare, March–June 1999. Photo: Besnik Mehmeti.
KLA in Koshare, March–June 1999. Photo: Besnik Mehmeti.
KLA in Koshare, March–June 1999. Photo: Besnik Mehmeti.
KLA in Koshare, March–June 1999. Photo: Besnik Mehmeti.
KLA in Koshare, March–June 1999. Photo: Besnik Mehmeti.
Kosovo Liberation Army soldiers in Gjakovë after descending from the Koshare area. April 1999. Photo: Besnik Mehmeti.
Portrait of a Kosovo Liberation Army soldier, 1999. Photo: Besnik Mehmeti.
Women soldiers of the Kosovo Liberation Army at the KLA camp in Koshare, 1999. Photo: Besnik Mehmeti.
KLA in Koshare, March–June 1999. Photo: Besnik Mehmeti.
KLA in Koshare, March–June 1999. Photo: Besnik Mehmeti.
Kosovo Liberation Army soldiers at Lake Koman, Albania, 1999. Photo: Besnik Mehmeti.
Kosovo Liberation Army soldiers at Lake Koman, Albania, 1999. Photo: Besnik Mehmeti.
Kosovo Liberation Army soldiers at Lake Koman, Albania, 1999. Photo: Besnik Mehmeti.
Kosovo Liberation Army soldiers at Lake Koman, Albania, 1999. Photo: Besnik Mehmeti.
Kosovo Liberation Army soldiers training at a camp in Krumë, Has, 1999. Photo: Paul S. Refsdal.
Kosovo Liberation Army soldiers training at a camp in Krumë, Has, 1999. Photo: Paul S. Refsdal.
Kosovo Liberation Army soldiers training at a camp in Krumë, Has, 1999. Photo: Paul S. Refsdal.
KLA soldiers beside a destroyed Yugoslav Army armored vehicle, 1999. Photo: Paul S. Refsdal.
Yugoslav military service booklets collected by the KLA at the former Serbian ‘Karaulla’ base in Koshare, 1999. Photo: Paul S. Refsdal.
Yugoslav military service booklets collected by the KLA at the former Serbian ‘Karaulla’ base in Koshare, 1999. Photo: Paul S. Refsdal.
A KLA soldier wearing a protective gas mask at the former Serbian ‘Karaulla’ base in Koshare, 1999. Photo: Paul S. Refsdal.
An armed elderly Albanian man during the war in Kosovo, 1999. Photo: Paul S. Refsdal.
Michael Späth, a former U.S. Army soldier and volunteer in the KLA’s 138th ‘Agim Ramadani’ Brigade, 1999. Photo: Paul S. Refsdal.
A Kosovo Liberation Army soldier at the entrance to a mosque destroyed during the war, 1999. Photo: Paul S. Refsdal.
Agim Çeku, Chief of the General Staff of the Kosovo Liberation Army, 1999. Photo: Paul S. Refsdal.
Funeral of a Kosovo Liberation Army soldier, 1999. Photo: Paul S. Refsdal.
Funeral of a Kosovo Liberation Army soldier, 1999. Photo: Paul S. Refsdal.
A Kosovo Liberation Army soldier visits wounded people at a makeshift hospital in the Kleçkë area, May 1999. Photo: Paul S. Refsdal.
Kosovo Liberation Army soldiers with children in Prishtina, 1999. Photo: Besnik Mehmeti.