A day after NATO said it would send another 700 troops to “keep peace” in North Kosovo, it has ended up inflaming tensions between ethnic-Serb locals and the Albanian-run government. North Kosovo, in orange, is Serb-run. Last Tuesday, Kosovo sent Albanian policemen to border posts in the north to extend Pristina’s control over the rebellious [...]
Sparked by the Albanian-dominated government as a power-grab in the Serb-majority north, the unrest in North Kosovo has convinced NATO to send another 700 armed peacekeepers to the territory. North Kosovo, in orange, is Serb-run. Pristina aimed to start a trade war with Belgrade by taking over border posts previously manned by Kosovo Serbs and [...]
Two policemen were wounded Monday, with one later dying of his injuries, in an operation to extend central control over North Kosovo. Since the region claimed independence in 2008, its largest remaining majority-Serb enclave has resisted rule from the capital, Pristina. The European Union, which normally backs Kosovo’s Albanian-controlled government, has condemned the operation. North [...]
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Kosovo officially launched its new military, the Kosovo Security Force (KSF) to replace the civilian Kosovar Protection Service, which was made up chiefly of separatists from the 1998-99 war against the Serbian government. NATO will support the recruitment drive for the new force, which hopes to have 1,500 members by September. The Serbian government which [...]
In what Serbian newspapers are calling a “great diplomatic victory,” the UN General Assembly has voted 77-6 to ask the International Court of Justice to examine the question “Is the unilateral declaration of independence by the provisional institutions of self-government of Kosovo in accordance with international law?” The legality of Kosovo’s independence is unclear. Former [...]
