The Latest Breaking News from KFOR

Serbs Put Up New Roadblocks as Tensions Soar in Kosovo

Serbs on Tuesday erected more roadblocks in northern Kosovo and defied international demands to remove those placed earlier, a day after Serbia put its troops near the border on a high level of combat readiness. The new barriers, made of heavily loaded trucks, were put up overnight in Mitrovica, a…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Dec 28, 2022

Kosovo closes main border crossing after roadblock in Serbia

Kosovo closed its biggest border crossing with Serbia on Wednesday after protesters blocked it on the Serbian side to support their ethnic kin in Kosovo in refusing to recognise the country's independence.

Reuters · Dec 28, 2022

Serbia puts forces on combat alert as tensions soar over roadblocks in Kosovo

Russia-backed Vucic accuses Pristina of ‘triggering unrest to kill Serbs’

The Independent UK · Dec 27, 2022

Shots fired near NATO patrol in Kosovo's volatile north, NATO says

Shots were fired near a NATO patrol in the northern part of Kosovo where local Serbs have set up roadblocks to bar police from Pristina from patrolling the area marred by ethnic tensions in recent months, NATO said on Sunday.

Reuters · Dec 25, 2022

Kosovo asks NATO to airlift a Serb detainee as tensions rise

(This Dec. 22 story has been corrected to say that police officers were transported by NATO via ground routes, not by helicopter, in paragraph 7)

Reuters · Dec 22, 2022

Serbia to request permission to deploy its troops in Kosovo

The Serbian government will ask the NATO peacekeeper commander to allow the country to send up to 1,000 police and army personnel to Kosovo, President Aleksandar Vucic said on Thursday.

Reuters · Dec 15, 2022

Tensions in north Kosovo – whose agenda does the flare-up serve?

Ethnic fractures in the Western Balkans, including in Kosovo’s Serb-populated area, create trouble for the EU and US.

Al Jazeera · Dec 15, 2022

Serbia's president says Belgrade seeks to deescalate situation in Kosovo

Serbia demands the release of all arrested Serbs from northern Kosovo, but also seeks to defuse tensions there following tensions in the restive region, President Aleksandar Vucic said on Sunday.

Reuters · Dec 11, 2022

Serbia’s Vucic seeks NATO approval to send forces to north Kosovo

Serbian president said he was under ‘no illusion’ that NATO would agree to his request amid tension in northern Kosovo.

Al Jazeera · Dec 11, 2022

Wreckage of Oklahoma teen’s deadly 150mph crash captured on bodycam video

Luke House, 18, was charged with two counts of second-degree murder, police said

The Independent UK · Oct 26, 2022