From the Archives, 2002 | Mommy, when are you going to come home? stripes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from stripes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Stars and Stripes reporters and photographers filed news stories from Albania and Macedonia over six weeks in 1999 as the NATO air campaign intensified and refugees flowed out of Kosovo.
The surprise checks using Apache and Black Hawk helicopters are part of a new effort by American troops to prevent Taliban and al-Qaida from migrating between Afghanistan and Pakistan.