Kosovo

Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti claimed that a gang tied to the government of Serbia was behind a deadly shootout on the border last month.

Serbia’s president on Sunday denied reports of a military buildup along the border with Kosovo, following a shootout that killed four people.

Kosovo observed a day of mourning for the police officer killed by Serb gunmen who then barricaded themselves in an Orthodox monastery.

Kosovo’s prime minister said one police officer was killed and another wounded in an attack he blamed on support from neighboring Serbia.

Special Counsel Jack Smith, who is heading up the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump, has a history of charging political leaders, including former Kosovo President Hashim Thaçi.

Turkey announced it will be sending a battalion to northern Kosovo in response to a NATO request for troops to help quell violent unrest.

Ethnic Serbs in Kosovo have reportedly attacked a large number of NATO troops in the country, spray-painting pro-Russian ‘Z’ symbols on military vehicles.

Former President Donald Trump blasted Jack Smith — the special counsel for the investigation into documents Trump brought to Mar-a-Lago at the end of his presidency — in a series of fiery Truth Social posts last week.

A Border Force officer arrested by anti-corruption cops may have been outed as being an illegal himself, according to a papers claims.

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) – 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.

Kosovo signed a formal application seeking candidacy for the EU, prompting Serbia to immediately call on Brussels to turn it down.

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) – Tensions were high in northern Kosovo on Sunday, with Serbs blocking roads after shots and explosions rang out overnight, Kosovo police and media reported. No injuries were reported.

The war in Ukraine has put European Union expansion at the top of the agenda as officials from the Western Balkans and EU leaders gather.

The EU’s top diplomat was holding talks Monday in a bid to defuse tensions amid a dispute over vehicle license plates.

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) – Representatives of the ethnic Serb minority in Kosovo on Saturday resigned from their posts in protest over the dismissal of a police officer who did not follow the government’s decision on vehicle license plates.

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) – Serbia’s president called on NATO on Sunday to “do their job” in Kosovo or he says Serbia itself will move to protect its minority in the breakaway province.

BRUSSELS (AP) – The leaders of Serbia and Kosovo failed Thursday to reach an agreement on longstanding border and mutual recognition issues that have spiked tensions in the Balkans and added to Europe’s instability during the war in Ukraine, the European Union’s foreign policy chief said.

The EU has the Western Balkans in its sights according to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who declared the region “belongs” to the bloc. 

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) – The NATO-led peacekeeping mission in Kosovo said Saturday that a participating soldier from North Macedonia has died.

The Danish government is hammering out a deal to transfer hundreds of foreign criminals to a prison rented and run by the Danish authorities in Kosovo. 

Evacuees from Afghanistan who fail U.S. checks on their bona fides might face repatriation back to their homeland, three officials familiar with the matter have claimed.

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) – Tensions between Kosovo and Serbia increased Wednesday after police in Kosovo clashed with ethnic Serbs during a police operation against the smuggling of goods. At least seven people were injured.

Kosovar President Vjosa Osmani on Sunday awarded his country’s Presidential Medal on the Rule of Law to Beau Biden, the late son of U.S. President Joe Biden. 

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) – A bus swerved off a highway and crashed in Croatia early Sunday, killing 10 people and injuring at least 30 others, police said.

Not one Arab country that signed peace and normalization agreements with Israel under the Abraham Accords has withdrawn those commitments.

The U.S. Department of State praised the Trump-brokered formal establishment of diplomatic relations between Israel and Muslim-majority Kosovo.

Addressing an EU enlargement summit Tuesday, Bulgaria pledged support for Balkan countries on the path of being integrated into the EU.

Serbia and Kosovo agreed on Thursday to name a lake in a disputed territory after President Donald Trump.

Mike Pompeo said part of how President Donald Trump and his administration have achieved many of the foreign policy successes the past few years has been by working outside various “multilateral institutions” that are often bogged down by bureaucracy and inaction.

This is a miraculous development, one that the foreign policy establishment in Washington, DC, said was impossible. But it is happening, thanks to President Donald Trump.

Former Vice President Joe Biden claimed Thursday that President Donald Trump has “put Israel in danger” — even as more and more Arab and Muslim states make peace with the Jewish state.

A member of the Swedish Parliament has nominated the United States under President Donald Trump for a second Nobel Prize for work in Kosovo and Serbia.

Joe Biden’s claim that he warned America about the coronavirus in January is central to his presidential campaign message. It also happens to repeat a pattern that Biden has displayed throughout his career: falsely claiming to have predicted disaster.

Rabbi Pesach Lerner, President of the Coalition for Jewish Values, praised the Trump administration’s Serbia-Kosovo agreement over the weekend, noting that it had made a special effort to include normalization of relations between Kosovo and Israel, and both Balkan countries putting embassies in Israel’s capital city of Jerusalem.

The Muslim-majority Balkan nation of Kosovo has agreed, along with neighboring Serbia, to establish full diplomatic relations will Israel and will open embassies in Jerusalem, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced.

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) – Kosovo’s president on Saturday announced a one-year extension of the mandate of the European Union’s mission to ensure the rule of law in Kosovo.