Sixteen years ago, 50 thousand NATO troops and the United Nations Interim Administration were stationed in Kosovo.

On June 12, 1999, after 78 days of bombing by the Western Alliance led by U.S., against the Serb-Montenegrin military targets in Kosovo, Serbia, and Montenegro, the NATO troops entered Kosovo on a peacekeeping mission called KFOR, ending the nearly two-year war between the Albanian insurgent population organized in the Kosovo Liberation Army and the Serbian-Montenegrin military and police occupying forces.