When Nato troops first entered Kosovo in June 1999 after 78 days of bombing, no one thought its Kosovo Force (KFOR) peacekeepers would still be trying to separate ethnic Albanians and ethnic Serbs 24 years later.
The initial goal, as in Bosnia-Herzegovina, where another even smaller Nato force lingers, was for the Nato mission to withdraw as early as 2000, handing over administration to the United Nations and Kosovo's own authorities.
