The Latest Breaking News from Albin Kurti

Kosovo’s prime minister is claiming that a criminal gang from northern Serbia with alleged links to the Belgrade government was behind a September attack in Kosovo that killed a police officer and involved a daylong gunbattle with Kosovo police that left three gunmen dead

The envoys of the European Union and the United States are urging Kosovo and Serbia to resume their dialogue on normalizing relations before the bitter tensions between the two nations result in more violence

Kosovo’s prime minister, Albin Kurti, and Serbia’s president, Aleksandar Vučić, are scheduled to meet this weekend for the first time since Nato decided to send about 600 more peacekeeping troops into the Balkans early in October to mitigate some of the region’s growing tensions.

As violence flares, Washington has shown it has influence, while Brussels’s policies have shown weakness.

Kosovo’s prime minister has asked NATO-led peacekeepers to increase their presence on the northern border with Serbia, saying the area is the entry point for illegal weapons and threats to stability

An escalation into a conflict in the Western Balkans was averted but the likelihood of future flare-ups remains high.

Swift western pressure on Serbia to step back from conflict does not resolve the chronic problems of Kosovo’s nationhood

Kosovo leader Albin Kurti alleges Serbian president aims to instigate a conflict with Kosovo; Vucic denies accusation.

Britain has made a battalion of up to 650 troops available to a Nato peacekeeping force amid rising tensions between Serbia and Kosovo.

United States urges Belgrade to stand down after deployment of Serbian tanks and artillery near Kosovo border.

Unless the US and EU are tougher on Belgrade, Serbian nationalist attacks could destabilise the region, says political scientist and author Jasmin Mujanović