By the year 1998, jihadists were well organized and ready for an open conflict. Some areas of Kosovo were completely under their control even before real stuff kicked off. In those areas, KLA (Kosovo Liberation Army) was operating as a regular military, along with bunch of middle-east fighters. In other parts of Kosovo they were acting in small terrorist groups, attacking official Serbian forces and civilians. I finished my 12 month training literally 7 days before NATO air strikes begun, March 24, 1999.
My unit consisted of 40 men, divided in 10 groups of 4; every group had a sniper, sniper's assistant and two recon operatives. I was the latter. We would be dispatched mostly in the southern regions of Kosovo, near Albanian border, to acquire info on enemy moving in from Albania. Occasionally setting mines and stuff. Aside from our snipers, we were instructed to avoid open fire due to being heavily outnumbered most of the time. We would also be assigned to plant "decoys" ( don't know the exact English term ), a device that would serve as something that would confuse planes info firing missiles, aiming at nothing but barren ground.
