BELGRADE, Serbia: Tensions between Serbia and Kosovo flared anew over the weekend when some 30 heavily armed Serbs barricaded themselves in an Orthodox monastery in northern Kosovo, setting off a daylong gunbattle with police that left one officer and three attackers dead. Sunday’s clash was one
Pristina: NATO forces in Kosovo are ready to face any situation if acts of violence similar to recent encounters threaten the peace, the NATO commander in Pristina said on Tuesday. Some 30 NATO peacekeeping soldiers defending three town halls in northern Kosovo were injured in clashes
Zvecan: The US-led military alliance NATO is planning to send 700 extra troops to Kosovo and put another battalion on high alert to go in as unrest in the region has intensified since ethnic Albanian mayors took office in the country’s northern Serb-majority area after
Pristina: Former Kosovo president Hashim Thaci, considered a hero by compatriots for leading the 1998-99 insurgency against Serbian rule that led to independence, will go on trial on Monday for alleged war crimes during the conflict. A special Kosovo court set up in The Hague indicted
Belgrade: Serbian armed forces were on "the highest level" of alert, Defence Minister Milos Vucevic said Tuesday, highlighting the Balkan country’s increasingly strained relations with neighbouring Kosovo over recent shootings and blockades.
Zupce, Kosovo: NATO-led peacekeepers backed by helicopters on Monday oversaw the removal of roadblocks protesters had set up in Kosovo, where political tensions have flared more than two decades since a NATO campaign of airstrikes drove out Serbian forces. Kosovo police said the removal of the