The Battle of Lođa ( sr, Boj na Lođi, italics=yes, sr-Cyrl, Бој на лођи, al, Beteja e Loxhës) was fought during the

Kosovo War The Kosovo War was an armed conflict in Kosovo that started 28 February 1998 and lasted until 11 June 1999. It was fought by the forces of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (i.e. Serbia and Montenegro), which controlled Kosovo before the wa ...

in the village of Lođa first on 6-12 July 1998 and again later on 10-17 August 1998. between the

Yugoslav Army The Yugoslav People's Army (abbreviated as JNA/; Macedonian and sr-Cyrl-Latn, Југословенска народна армија, Jugoslovenska narodna armija; Croatian and bs, Jugoslavenska narodna armija; sl, Jugoslovanska ljudska ar ...

against the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) and

Armed Forces of the Republic of Kosova The Armed Forces of the Republic of Kosovo (AFRK; sq, Forcat e Armatosura të Republikës së Kosovës (FARK)) was a paramilitary organization, a military wing of the Democratic League of Kosovo, Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), the main Righ ...

(FARK). The first battle was an operation launched to

counterattack A counterattack is a tactic employed in response to an attack, with the term originating in "war games". The general objective is to negate or thwart the advantage gained by the enemy during attack, while the specific objectives typically seek ...

the Albanian rebels after two Yugoslav policemen patrolling the area had been killed. The first battle ended in an KLA victory, while the second operation ended in a Yugoslav victory. All of village's 284 houses and mosque were destroyed by Serbian Police with bulldozers.

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