part of the KLA's "Cobra" unit first prepared for the ambush by laying anti tank mines. Later a Yugoslav tank came and detonated one of the anti tank mines. the blast killed one soldier and injured 4 others. A Yugoslav army helicopter was sent out to pick of the surviving soldiers. When it arrived it was fired upon by the KLA fighters. A second attack happened shortly after this time very close to the Košare border outpost. the KLA fighters set ambush to a Yugoslav army vehicle. they opened fire upon the vehicle and threw hand grenades at it. this killed 5 Yugoslav soldiers and wounded two more. they then collected ammunition and equipment from the vehicle and soldiers and robbed the dead of their personal belongings. They then opened fire to another helicopter which came to evacuate the wounded. Aftermath The higher court in the southern Serbian city of Niš on February 17, 2016, found Sicer Maloku, Gashi Xhafer, Demush Gacaferi, Deme Maloku, Agron Isufi, Anton Cuni, Rabit Alija and Rrustem Berisha guilty of acts of terrorism and ordered each of them to be jailed for 15 years for their involvement in two attacks on Yugoslav Army troops in Kosare on the same day in 1998. Rrustem Berisha is currently a Kosovar politician and military officer. He is currently the Minister of Defense of Kosovo. he responded to the conviction by saying this; “We had uniforms. We were soldiers and we fought against soldiers. They [the Yugoslav Army] killed civilians including elderly people, children and women." Former Prime Minister of Kosovo Isa Mustafa said that a Serbian court's decision to convict eight former Kosovo Liberation Army fighters of killing Yugoslav Army troops in September 1998 was a farce. Mustafa said that courts in Serbia have no right to judge Kosovo's citizens and even less to try former KLA fighters who were involved in what he called a liberation war and respected the laws and customs of warfare. None of the former KLA militants have served the sentence they were given. References Conflicts in 1998 1998 in Kosovo 1998 in Yugoslavia Military operations of the Kosovo War Battles involving Albania Battles involving FR Yugoslavia Serbian–Albanian conflict Albania–Serbia border