Kosovan soldier describes fight for freedom during IVH visit

T-R PHOTOS BY MIKE DONAHEY — Maj. Gen. Irfte Spahiu of the Kosovo Security Forces, accepts a plaque of appreciation from Iowa Veterans Home Commandant Todd Jacobus Monday morning. Spahiu had previously spoken to attendees about her country’s war...

Kosovo’s ex-president ‘was not in charge’ during war, former US official tells trial

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Former U.S. State Department spokesman James Rubin testified Monday as the first defense witness for Hashim Thaçi, the former president of Kosovo, who is accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity allegedly...

Ex-diplomat says Thaci lacked control over KLA in Kosovo war crimes trial

By Stephanie van den Berg THE HAGUE (Reuters) -A former top United States diplomat testified on Monday that Hashim Thaci, Kosovo's ex-president, had no real authority over the Kosovo Liberation Army's military commanders at the start of the...

US Ex-Diplomat Testifies for Defence in War Crimes Trial of Kosovo’s Thaci

James Rubin in court on Monday. Photo: BIRN. James Rubin, the former right-hand man of US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, started his testimony at the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague on Monday, marking the start of the defence’s...

Albanians Rally in The Hague Against Kosovo War Crimes Court

Protesters in The Hague on September 14, 2025. Photo: BIRN. The red and black of the Albanian flag dominated the streets of The Hague on Sunday as hundreds of ethnic Albanians from Kosovo, other countries in the Balkans, EU states, the UK and the...

EU condemns Kosovo’s Mitrovica office shutdowns

PRISTINA, Sept 13 (TemA) — The EU condemned Kosovo’s closure of two Serbian-run welfare offices in North Mitrovica, calling it uncoordinated and against commitments under the Brussels dialogue. Brussels urged the caretaker government to stop such...

EU Criticizes Kosovo for Closing Offices of Serbian Health and Pension Insurance Funds

"Yet another uncoordinated action", EU criticizes Kosovo for closing offices of Serbian health and pension insurance funds The European Union has condemned the closure of the offices in Mitrovica of the Health Insurance Fund and the Disability and...

US suspends dialogue with Kosovo

The US on Friday suspended talks with Kosovo, saying the actions by its caretaker government were to blame for rising tensions and instability in the small Balkan country and the region. Seven months after parliamentary elections in February,...

U.S. suspends Kosovo dialogue; Pristina pushes back

PRISTINA, Sept 12 (TemA) – The United States has indefinitely suspended its planned Strategic Dialogue with Kosovo, citing government actions it says have raised tensions and hampered cooperation on shared priorities. Government spokesman Përparim...

Russia: Conflict in Kosovo Is Escalating and Increasing Significantly

The spokesperson of Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova, has warned that the situation in Kosovo and the wider Balkans could escalate into a new conflict. In a press conference, Zakharova accused the government of Kosovo of...

U.S. suspends talks with Kosovo and blames the caretaker government for rising tensions

PRISTINA, Kosovo — The United States on Friday suspended talks with Kosovo, saying the actions by its caretaker government were to blame for rising tensions and instability in the small Balkan country and the region. Seven months after...

US suspends talks with Kosovo and blames the caretaker government for rising tensions

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — The United States on Friday suspended talks with Kosovo, saying the actions by its caretaker government were to blame for rising tensions and instability in the small Balkan country and the region. Seven months after...

World Reuters US suspends dialogue with Kosovo, says government moves stoke 'instability'

PRISTINA (Reuters) -The United States has suspended a dialogue on strengthening economic and diplomatic ties with Kosovo over concerns that some moves by the caretaker government have stoked "tensions and instability", the U.S. Embassy in Pristina...

US suspends dialogue with Kosovo, says government moves stoke 'instability'

PRISTINA (Reuters) -The United States has suspended a dialogue on strengthening economic and diplomatic ties with Kosovo over concerns that some moves by the caretaker government have stoked "tensions and instability", the U.S. Embassy in Pristina...

Pristina's inspectors close Sluzbeni glasnik offices in K Mitrovica

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Pristina's inspectors from the North Mitrovica municipality on Tuesday closed the offices of Sluzbeni glasnik (Official Gazette), the company supplying textbooks to pupils in the Serbian education system in Kosovo-Metohija....

Petkovic: We insisted on Community , Pristina not interested

BRUSSELS - The director of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic said that, at all meetings in Thursday's round of the Brussels dialogue with Pristina, Belgrade's delegation had insisted on an immediate and urgent...

Kosovo Authorities: Facility Used by Serbian Institutions Shut Down

The municipality of North Mitrovica has confirmed that it has closed a facility where Serbia’s Official Gazette and a bookstore operated, saying that “individuals without documentation for the use of the premises” were found inside. “Due to the...

German police suspect 'religious' motive in teacher stabbing

Policemen are sworn in during the German Chancellor's first official visit as Chancellor to the western federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, on September 1, 2025 in Muenster, western Germany. [AFP] A Kosovar youth suspected of seriously...

‘Al-Andalus vs Territory of Kosovo’: Naming Row Overshadows U-21 Game

Rabat – A UEFA U-21 football match between Spain and Kosovo turned into a political controversy over how Kosovo was named. Spain referred to Kosovo as the “Territory of Kosovo,” on its official social media, reflecting Spain’s longstanding...

Unsolved: Murder of a Kosovo Architect Who Imagined a Different Pristina

Luci, whose name now graces one of the main streets in Pristina, was part of the first generation of trained urbanists in Kosovo. He studied in Belgrade and returned to Kosovo, then part of socialist Yugoslavia, in 1969. Pristina was already...