Tanuševci operation

The Tanuševci operation was a joint Macedonian-KFOR operation to regain control of the village of Tanuševci which was previously infiltrated by NLA rebels. The Operation was successful with NATO-led KFOR forces capturing the village and Macedonian Army units sweeping the area and ambushing the retreating NLA.[11]

Tanuševci operation
Part of the 2001 insurgency in Macedonia
Date8 March 2001
Location
Tanuševci, Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo border region
Result

KFOR-Macedonian victory[1]

  • US-led peacekeepers from Kosovo capture village[2]
  • Macedonia regains control of the village
  • Macedonian Army ambushes withdrawing rebels[3]
  • NLA forced to withdraw[4]
  • NLA ambushed returning Macedonian soldiers in Brest[5]
Belligerents
NATO
 Macedonia		 National Liberation Army
Commanders and leaders
Boris Trajkovski
Jovan Andrevski		 Xhezair Shaqiri
Units involved
KFOR
Army of the Republic of Macedonia		 113th Brigade "Ismet Jashari"
Strength
300 peacekeepers[6]
unknown		 150 Militants[7]
Casualties and losses
none
1 killed
3 others were wounded[8][9]		 2 killed by KFOR forces[10]

References
  1. Gall, Carlotta. "NATO Troops Help Macedonians Drive Away Ethnic Albanian Rebels". New York Times. Retrieved 15 August 2022. SKOPJE, Macedonia, March 8 — United States-led peacekeeping troops in southern Kosovo occupied a village on the border with Macedonia today, as part of a coordinated move with Macedonian military forces through the night and morning to flush out ethnic Albanian rebels from their mountain base.
  2. "US Troops Take over Rebel-Held Macedonian Village". albawaba. Retrieved 3 September 2022.
  3. Gall, Carlotta. "NATO Troops Help Macedonians Drive Away Ethnic Albanian Rebels". New York Times. Retrieved 15 August 2022. He said that the Albanians had opened fire first and the Macedonian troops had responded when attacked. American officers who tracked the shooting from their positions told reporters they thought the Albanians had run into an ambush.
  4. "One dead in Macedonia attack". CNN. Retrieved 15 August 2022. Around 50 ethnic Albanian rebels were forced by troops from the NATO-led KFOR force to withdraw from of Tanusevci, which straddles the Kosovo-Macedonian border.
  6. "G.I.'s Join Macedonians in Fight Against Albanian Rebels". New York Times. Retrieved 3 September 2022.
  7. "US Troops Take over Rebel-Held Macedonian Village". albawaba. Retrieved 3 September 2022.
  8. Neofotistos, Vasiliki P (2012). "The Risk of War". University of Pennsylvania Press. doi:10.9783/9780812206562.37.
  9. "G.I.'s Join Macedonians in Fight Against Albanian Rebels". New York Times. Retrieved 3 September 2022.
  10. "G.I.'s Join Macedonians in Fight Against Albanian Rebels". New York Times. Retrieved 3 September 2022.
  11. Gall, Carlotta. "NATO Troops Help Macedonians Drive Away Ethnic Albanian Rebels". New York Times. Retrieved 15 August 2022. He said that the Albanians had opened fire first and the Macedonian troops had responded when attacked. American officers who tracked the shooting from their positions told reporters they thought the Albanians had run into an ambush.
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