Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Yugoslavia ta rushe a farkon shekarun 1990, kuma jerin yaƙe-yaƙe sun haifar da ƙirƙirar sabbin jihohi biyar. Yaƙe-yaƙe mafi tsanani sun faru ne a cikin Croatia da Bosnia da Herzegovina, waɗanda Serbs suka yi tawaye kuma suka nemi haɗin kai da Serbia, wanda a lokacin har yanzu yana cikin Tarayyar Jamhuriyar Yugoslavia. Yaƙin a Croatia ya ƙare a watan Agusta 1995, tare da wani harin soja na Croatia da aka sani da Operation Storm
murkushe tawayen Serb na Croatia da kuma sa Serbs 200,000 su gudu daga kasar. Yaƙin Bosnian ya ƙare a wannan shekarar, tare da Yarjejeniyar Dayton da ke raba ƙasar tare da kabilanci. A cikin 1998-1999, rikici a Kosovo tsakanin Sojojin Yugoslavia da 'yan Albaniyan da ke neman' yancin kai ya ɓarke cikin cikakken yaƙi, wanda ya haifar da kamfen ɗin harin NATO na kwanaki 78 wanda ya kori jami'an tsaro na Yugoslavia daga Kosovo. Daga baya, fiye da Serbs 200,000 da wasu ba Albaniyawa ba suka gudu daga lardin. A ranar 5 ga Oktoba 2000, an hambarar da Shugaban Yugoslavia Slobodan Milosević a cikin tawaye mara jini bayan ya ƙi yarda da shan kaye a babban zaben Yugoslav na 2000.