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The Latest Breaking News from Kosovo

EU, U.S. express concern over situation in north Kosovo

The European Union and the United States are concerned about the situation in the north of Kosovo and urge the rival parties to de-escalate tensions, they said in a joint statement on Wednesday.

Reuters · Dec 28, 2022

Serbs in northern Kosovo to start removing barricades from Thursday

Kosovo Serbs who have been blocking roads in northern Kosovo for 19 days have agreed to start removing barricades from Thursday morning, bowing to calls by the United States and European Union to defuse tensions.

Reuters · Dec 28, 2022

Kosovo Serb whose arrest caused crisis released from jail

The lawyer for a former Kosovo Serb policeman has been ordered released from prison and placed under house arrest

The Independent UK · Dec 28, 2022

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Kremlin backs Serbia, denies Russia is stoking tensions in Kosovo

The Kremlin on Wednesday said it supported Serbia's attempts to protect ethnic Serbs in northern Kosovo but denied Pristina's accusation that Russia was somehow stoking tensions in an attempt to sow chaos across the Balkans.

Reuters · Dec 28, 2022

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

Kosovo minister sees Russian influence in growing Serbian tension

Interior Minister Xhelal Svecla accused Belgrade of supporting Serbian protesters as a means to destabilise Kosovo.

Al Jazeera · Dec 28, 2022

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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

Why ethnic tensions are flaring again in northern Kosovo

Protesting Serbs in the ethnically divided city of Mitrovica in northern Kosovo erected new barricades on Tuesday, hours after Serbia said it had put its army on the highest combat alert following weeks of escalating tensions between Belgrade and Pristina.

Reuters · Dec 27, 2022

Serbia puts troops on high alert as tensions soar in Kosovo

Serbs have erected more roadblocks in northern Kosovo and defied international demands to remove those placed earlier

The Independent UK · Dec 27, 2022

Kosovan minister says Serbia aims to destabilise the country

Kosovan Interior Minister Xhelal Svecla on Tuesday said Serbia, under the influence of Russia, was aiming to destabilise Kosovo by supporting the Serb minority in the north who have been blocking roads and protesting for almost three weeks.

Reuters · Dec 27, 2022

Serbia troops on 'highest level' of alert over latest Kosovo tensions

Serbian armed forces were on "the highest level" of alert, Defence Minister Milos Vucevic said Monday, highlighting the Balkan country's increasingly strained relations with neighbouring Kosovo over recent shootings and blockades.

Bangkok Post · Dec 27, 2022

Serbian army put on highest alert over Kosovo tensions

Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic has ordered the nation’s army on full alert after weeks of rising tensions in neighboring Kosovo where the local Serb minority has been confronting the authorities over new registration requirements, putting up road blockades and holding protests that threaten to tip into violence, the defense ministry…

Tribune News Service · Dec 27, 2022

Serbia places its troops on Kosovo border on combat alert as tensions escalate

Serbia on Monday placed its security troops on the border with Kosovo on “the full state of combat readiness," ignoring NATO's calls for calming down of tensions between the two wartime Balkan foes.

France 24 · Dec 27, 2022

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The Independent UK · Dec 26, 2022

NATO probing shooting incident in tense Kosovo north

NATO-led peacekeepers in Kosovo say they are investigating a shooting incident in a tense northern region

Reuters · Dec 25, 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 22, 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

Protesting Kosovo Serbs want ethnic Albanian police out of country's north

Thousands of Kosovo Serbs protested on Thursday to back demands for the country's Albanian-majority government to pull its police out of the country's north where its Serb minority is concentrated.

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The Independent UK · Dec 16, 2022

Former Kosovo rebel commander convicted of 1999 murder

A former commander in the Kosovo Liberation Army has been found guilty of arbitrarily detaining and torturing prisoners perceived as supporters of Serbia during the country’s 1999 war of independence, and murdering one of them

Reuters · Dec 16, 2022

Kosovo tribunal convicts former KLA commander in first war crimes verdict

In a milestone ruling judges at the Kosovo tribunal on Friday convicted a former Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) guerrilla commander who ran a prison where torture took place during the 1998-99 independence conflict with Serbia.

Reuters · Dec 15, 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.

France 24 · Dec 15, 2022

EU leaders grant Bosnia 'candidate status' to join bloc

European Union leaders on Thursday granted Bosnia candidate status to join the union, putting the volatile Balkan nation at the start of a long road to membership. The move came as Kosovo became the latest country to formally lodge an application to apply for membership in the bloc.

The Independent UK · Dec 15, 2022

Kosovo submits formal request to join the EU, Serbia angry

Kosovo’s prime minister has formally submitted his country’s application to be granted candidacy status for membership in the European Union, a first step in a long process to eventual membership

Al Jazeera · 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.

Reuters · Dec 15, 2022

Kosovo formally applies to join EU

Kosovo's Prime Minister Albin Kurti submitted a bid for Kosovo to join the European Union on Thursday, launching a process that could take years, if not decades, and is dependent on it normalising relations with neighbouring Serbia.

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