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Judges of a European Union-backed court on Thursday ordered the arrest of Kosovo’s three other war veterans on alleged offenses against the administration of justice. A statement from the Specialist Prosecutor’s Office, based in The Hague, Netherlands confirmed ongoing operations in Kosovo...

Prosecutors with a special international court in The Hague on Friday charged Kosovo's former president Hashim Thaci, who is on trial for war crimes, with obstruction and contempt of court. Thaci "has been charged with three counts of obstruction of official persons in performing official duties...

Belgrade Higher Court on April 24 found seven former members of the 177th Yugoslav Army Unit guilty of war crimes for their involvement in deadly attacks on four villages in the Peja/Pec area in April and May 1999 during the Kosovo war. The 177th Yugoslav Army Unit’s commander, Toplica Miladinovic...

Kosovo’s Supreme Court has upheld the second-instance verdict sentencing former policeman Zoran Vukotic to 13 years in prison for committing rape and participating in the expulsions of ethnic Albanian civilians from the town of Vushtrri/Vucitrn during the war in May 1999. The Supreme Court’s...

The United Nations on Monday expressed concern over the "atmosphere of mutual suspicion" in Kosovo, calling for "critical" de-escalatory measures between it and Serbia. Tensions between Pristina and Belgrade have been heightened since a police officer was killed last month in an ambush in Kosovo's...

Fred Abrahams from the campaign group Human Rights Watch—who worked on reports about Kosovo during the conflict—told the war crimes and crimes against humanity trial of former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci and three co-defendants at the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague on Wednesday that the...

A statue bearing the names of 23 Kosovo Albanians who rescued Jews from the Holocaust during World War II was inaugurated Wednesday in the capital, Pristina. The “Wall of Honor” statue was placed in a park in Pristina in the presence of some of the rescuers' descendants, political leaders, and the U...

The Kosovo government said on Tuesday it will scale down the police presence and take other measures to lower tensions in a northern region where hostilities between Albanians and ethnic Serbs have reached their highest level since the country declared independence in 2008. Violence in north Kosovo...

The presidents of Kosovo and Serbia held talks on Thursday on resolving a political crisis that has spiraled into violence, with the leaders of France and Germany pressing them to take swift steps to reduce tensions. Kosovo's Vjosa Osmani and Serbia's Aleksandar Vucic met briefly in the presence of...

Around 25 NATO peacekeeping soldiers defending three town halls in northern Kosovo were injured in clashes with Serb protesters on Monday, while Serbia's president put the army on the highest level of combat alert. KFOR, the NATO-led peacekeeping mission to Kosovo, condemned the violence. Serbian...