2001 insurgency in Macedonia

2001 insurgency in Macedonia
	Part of the Yugoslav Wars
	Clockwise from top left: Macedonian T-55 tank and crew in Aračinovo; A detachment of the Macedonian Special Police Unit for Fast Interventions near Kumanovo, Macedonian police border patrol near Raduša; 2001; Monument of the Defenders of Macedonia;
Date	22 January 2001 – 13 August 2001; (6 months, 3 weeks and 1 day)
Location	Polog and Kumanovo regions of Macedonia
Result	See aftermath
Belligerents
National Liberation Army; Albanian National Army;	Macedonia
Commanders and leaders
Ali Ahmeti; Gëzim Ostreni; Xhezair Shaqiri; Harun Aliu; Jetullah Qarri; Jakup Asipi;	Boris Trajkovski; Pande Petrovski; Ljubčo Georgievski; Jovan Andrevski; Ljube Boškoski; Dosta Dimovska; Vlado Bučkovski; Ljuben Paunovski;
Units involved
	Macedonian army; Macedonian police;
Strength
2,000–3,000+ militants (beginning of the war); Unknown	20,000 soldiers and policemen; 60 T-55 tanks; 4 Su-25 aircraft; 4 Mi-24
Casualties and losses
64–105 militants killed	63–77 soldiers and policemen killed; 3 tanks and 2 APCs captured; 1 tank and 1 APC destroyed ; 1 Mi-17 crashed
	150–250 total dead and 1,000 total casualties; 70–250 killed in fighting; Other:; 140,000 people displaced; One British soldier killed Two EU monitors killed

An armed conflict began in the Republic of Macedonia in 2001 when the ethnic Albanian National Liberation Army (NLA) insurgent group, formed from veterans of the Kosovo War and insurgency in the Preševo Valley, attacked Macedonian security forces at the end of January 2001, and ended with the Ohrid Agreement, signed on 13 August of that same year. There were also claims that the NLA ultimately wished to see Albanian-majority areas secede from the country, though high-ranking members of the group have denied this. The conflict lasted throughout most of the year, although overall casualties remained limited to several dozen individuals on either side, according to sources from both sides of the conflict. With it, the Yugoslav Wars had reached Macedonia, which had achieved peaceful independence from Yugoslavia in 1991.