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Despite opposition from Serbia, NATO's commander for Southeast Europe said the alliance will cut down its force in Kosovo by some 4,500 troops in January for possible use in hotspots like Afghanistan or Iraq.
The United States and Russia faced off over Kosovo at the United Nation's highest court on Tuesday, with the U.S. arguing the world should honor Kosovo's declaration of independence while Russia insisted it was still part of Serbia.
A decade after NATO airstrikes ended Serbia's bloody crackdown on its rebellious province, Kosovo told the U.N.'s highest court Tuesday its independence is irreversible and warned that any attempt to cancel it could set off a renewed conflict.
European Union police in Kosovo said Monday a man claiming to be a hit man for former ethnic Albanian rebels has been arrested on suspicion of murder and participation in organized crime.
A day before the world's highest court begins deliberating the legality of Kosovo's split from Serbia last year, their leaders clashed Monday over the Western-backed statehood that has shaken the Balkans.
Kosovo's first independent elections have ended peacefully, with the prime minister claiming his party won convincingly and some minority Serbs ignoring a call to boycott and casting ballots alongside ethnic Albanians.
Thousands of ethnic Albanians braved low temperatures and a cold wind in Kosovo's capital Pristina to welcome former President Bill Clinton on Sunday as he attended the unveiling of an 11-foot (3.5-meter) statue of himself on a key boulevard that also bears his name.
Kosovo's authorities said Friday they have demarcated a disputed border with Macedonia, a scene of tensions in the past.
The editor of a Kosovo newspaper said Tuesday he suspects that Islamist radicals have attacked the paper's Web site because it was covering the trial of a Kosovar charged in the United States with plotting terrorist acts.
Kosovo, a former province of Serbia, has become the 186th member of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
A Bulgarian court released Kosovo's former prime minister Thursday, two days after he was detained on an international arrest warrant issued by Serbia for alleged war crimes.
Colombia invited a leader of Kosovo's independence war for a conference on demobilizing guerrilla movements then expelled him based on an Interpol warrant issued at Serbia's request, the government said Thursday.
Colombia's DAS domestic security agency says it has expelled former Kosovo prime minister Agim Ceku based on an Interpol warrant for alleged war crimes.
Serbs protesting the building of homes for ethnic Albanians in Kosovo's tense north threw two hand grenades and fired gunshots at European Union police officers, who responded with tear gas and stun grenades to drive the crowd away Monday.
The United States is issuing unusually strong criticism of NATO ally Spain by expressing surprise at its decision to pull out its troops from the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Kosovo.
Kosovo's ethnic Albanian-led government is operating as an independent nation which its Serb minority refuses to recognize, leaving the United Nations in a difficult position as the administrator of the territory, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Thursday.
Spain will withdraw its hundreds of troops from the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Kosovo in the next few months, an official said Thursday.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is congratulating Kosovo on its first year of independence.
U.N. judges on Thursday acquitted former Serbian President Milan Milutinovic of ordering a deadly campaign of terror against Kosovo Albanians, saying he had no role in what they ruled was a criminal plot to drive ethnic Albanians out of Kosovo.
Jubilant ethnic Albanians poured into the streets Tuesday to celebrate the first anniversary of Kosovo's independence from Serbia, as nationalist Serbian lawmakers joined their ethnic kin in northern Kosovo to try to undermine the tiny country.
Giant steel letters still spell out an exultant "NEWBORN" on a downtown square in Kosovo's gritty capital. But a year after the majority Albanian territory defiantly declared independence from Serbia, the elation has given way to frustration.
Kosovo's first year of independence has been a success even though it's been recognized by just a few dozen countries, its prime minister declared Monday.
Kosovo officials say the Saatchi & Saatchi advertising company has won a contract worth euro5.7 million ($7.3 million) to improve the country's international image.
Kosovo armed forces took over security duties on Wednesday, less than a year after the territory declared independence and in the face of strong protests from Serbia.
The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal sentenced a former Kosovo minister to five months in prison Wednesday for intimidating a witness in the case against his country's former prime minister.
Croat PM: Croatia can prove genocide case against SerbiaCroatian Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor (Croatian Democratic Union) says her country is ready to prove its genocide lawsuit against Serbia at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
The trouble with independenceWith proceedings at the international court of justice (ICJ) now firmly under way, the legality of Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence is once again under the spotlight.
DAWN.COM | Columnists | Smokers� Corner: Boxing the faithOnce upon a time, charity boxes of so-called Islamic welfare organisations were a ubiquitous sight at shops in our cities. These boxes were claimed to have been put there by the shopkeepers and Islamic welfare groups to raise money for the building of mosques and madressahs.
Bill Clinton unveils statue of himself in Kosovo Thousands of ethnic Albanians braved low temperatures and a cold wind in Kosovo's capital Pristina to watch Bill Clinton, the former US president, unveil a golden statue of himself on Sunday.
Former President Clinton unveils statue in KosovoThousands of ethnic Albanians braved low temperatures and a cold wind in Kosovo's capital Pristina to welcome former President Bill Clinton on Sunday as he attended the unveiling of an 11-foot (3.5-meter) statue of himself on a key boulevard that also bears his name. Clinton i …
DAWN.COM | Pakistan | A state of denialThe GHQ attack has drawn accusations from several quarters in Pakistan that it was inspired by foreign powers; some have named India and the US among the usual suspects.
Albania adopts one-stop control at bordersTIRANA, Albania -- The Council of Ministers decided on Wednesday (October 14th) to establish a one-stop control system at all borders, including ports.
Albanians "one nation" across borders, Albanian PM Berisha saysAlbanians in Albania and Kosovo are a single nation, Prime Minister Sali Berisha asserted Tuesday at the start of a two-day visit aimed at forging closer ties with the former Serbian province.
New Cannibalism in Europe too?Market economy and free trade are the prevailing trend in today's developed countries. One drastic phenomenon of its darker side is known as "medical apartheid" or the "New Cannibalism".
US Wants Me Dead: Karadzic Jill Starr , bloomingdale: Aug 28 2009 United States : US Wants Me Dead: KaradzicKaradzic said the US envoy not to try him before the UN tribunal if he withdrew from public life. (Reuter)
Lessons of Failed States: Rebuilding Sierra Leone and LiberiaSANNIQUELLIE, Liberia: The chain of events prompted by that terrible day in September 2001 has begun to blur, and the electorates in the US and Britain are eager to end their countries' involvement in wars that ensued.
Serb agents arrested by Kosova Police, on "organ harvest" propagandaThree Serb agents were arrested in June by Kosova Police, accused of trying to bribe K.Serbs to falsely testify that they were victims of "organ harvesting" during the 1998-99 Serb-Albanian war. The surveillance footage reached RTK public television on August 11
Kosovo peace keeper out of handKinky video footage of a UN peace-keeping soldier pleasuring himself while on duty has sparked a furious ethnic row in war-torn Kosovo.
I hauled steel predominately. I hauled steel on a forty foot flatbed, in box trailers, I hauled two forty five foot trailers as one unit, and I hauled two twenty seven foot trailers with 34 wheels on the whole unit. They are called doubles. I pulled a tanker too.
Drunken Swedish soldiers in armed Kosovo kerfuffle A shot was fired when two drunken and armed Swedish soldiers got into a fight with local residents in Kosovo, prompting an investigation by Sweden's Armed Forces.
Quick-draw Sarah Palin takes long shot at John Kerry Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin didn't wait long to jab back at U.S. Sen. John Kerry for his joke this week that it was too bad she hadn't gone missing instead of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford.
The Brotherhood of Global JihadDespite various assessments over the past decade about the prospects of a decline of violent radical Islamist groups due to better cooperation in countering terrorism in general, and the Islamist brand in particular, it seems that this kind of terrorism is still developing.
Kosovo Serbs visit desecrated gravesIn an atmosphere described as "more peaceful than in previous years", some headstones have been destroyed ahead of the religious holiday that sees Orthodox Serb Christians remember their dead and visit their burial places four times each year.
The flight of Kosovo's minoritiesA highly critical report by Minority Rights Group International (MRG) maintains that members of minority communities are beginning to leave Kosovo over a year after its unilateral declaration of independence, due to persistent exclusion and discrimination.
United States : Robert Latham at New School Allowed Ethnic Albanian To Condone Genocide Against Serbian Orthodox Christians in Kosovo Posted 3/2/2009 2:37 PM EST
Russia concerned by rising pressure against Serbs in Kosovo MOSCOW, April 29 (RIA Novosti) - Russia is concerned over the rising tensions between the Serb and Albanian population in Kosovo, the Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.
Soldiers as street fighters When war became urban (Berlin in 1945, or more recently Chechnya) cities and people were ravaged. Now, given the rise in population of towns and cities, the French army must familiarise itself with more subtle warfare where all-out destruction is not an option.
Serbia jails ex-policemen for Kosovo massacreA war crimes court today found four Serbian former policemen guilty of the massacre of 48 Kosovo Albanians and sentenced them to up to 20 years in prison.
Kosovo Liberation Army Ran Torture Camps in AlbaniaWe don't hear much about what had happened in the Balkans or is still happening there so it's important projects like the one sponsoring this journalist still get funded.
Kosovo War massacre: sole survivor found by Telegraph ten years onDren Caka is the sole survivor - the miraculous survivor - of one of the most notorious episodes of the war: the massacre of 19 women and children, including his mother and three sisters, by Serb police.
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