The Yugoslav Wars were ethnic conflicts fought from 1991 to 2001 inside the territory of the former Yugoslavia. These wars accompanied and/or facilitated the breakup of the country, when its constituent republics declared independence, but the issues of ethnic minorities in the new countries (chiefly Serbs in central parts and Albanians in the southeast) were still unresolved at the time the republics were recognized internationally. The wars are generally considered to be a series of separate but related military conflicts which occurred in, and affected, most of the former Yugoslav republics:

• War in Slovenia (1991)
• Croatian War of Independence (1991–1995)
• Bosnian War (1992–1995)
• Kosovo War (1998–1999), including the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia
• Insurgency in the Preševo Valley (1999–2001)
• Insurgency in the Republic of Macedonia (2001)