Battle of Glođane

Battle of Glođane
	Part of the Kosovo War
Date	First Phase: 24 March 1998; Second Phase: 11–12 August 1998
Location	Glođane, near Gjakova
Result	First battle: KLA victory; Second battle: Yugoslav victory Returned presence of the KLA forces
Belligerents
Yugoslavia	Kosovo Liberation Army
Commanders and leaders
Sreten Lukić	Ramush Haradinaj (WIA); Bekim Berisha; Xhezair Shaqiri
Strength
500 soldiers and policemen	250 militants
Casualties and losses
5 Policemen killed; 2 soldiers killed; 10 policemen wounded	7 killed; 49 wounded

The Battle of Glođane (Serbian: Битка за Глођане / Bitka za Glođane, Albanian: Beteja e Gllogjanit) was fought during the Kosovo War in the village of Glođane first on March 24, 1998, and again later on August 11, 1998. It involved the Kosovo Albanian militant group known as the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) and the Yugoslav military and Serbian police forces^[a]. The clashes signified a sequence of military offensives initiated by the Yugoslav army and Serbian police to counter the increasing presence of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) within Kosovo Albanian villages.

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