Tanuševci operation | |||||||||
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Part of the 2001 insurgency in Macedonia | |||||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||||
NATO Macedonia | National Liberation Army | ||||||||
Units involved | |||||||||
KFOR Macedonian army | Unknown | ||||||||
Strength | |||||||||
300 peacekeepers
[1] Unknown | 150 insurgents [2] | ||||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||||
None None [3] | Unknown [1] [4] |
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. [1] [2] [5] [4]
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.
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.