Amra Zejneli is a reporter in Pristina for RFE/RL's Balkan Service.
The U.S. special envoy for the Western Balkans, Gabriel Escobar, stressed in an interview with RFE/RL the importance of creating an association of municipalities with majority Serb residents as a necessary step forward for the region.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said he will ask a NATO-led international peacekeeping force to permit the deployment of Serbian military and police into neighboring Kosovo, an unprecedented move that will likely escalate already-high tensions between the two Balkan nations.
During a visit to Kosovo, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said the alliance-led peacekeeping force will remain in the country to secure “peace and stability” in the Western Balkans, and urged local leaders to work toward normalizing relations with neighboring Serbia.
Former Kosovar President Hashim Thaci will make his initial court appearance on November 9 on charges of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Kosovar President Hashim Thaci, a guerrilla leader during the country's war for independence from Serbia in the 1990s, has resigned after confirming that he has been indicted for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Kosovo's new prime minister spent years challenging powerful elites in Belgrade, Pristina, and the international community. Now it's his time to lead.
Kosovo's government says it is banning Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic from entering the country after comments she made that Pristina took as being "racist."
European diplomats are warning that a dispute pitting Serbia and Russia against Kosovo over a series of raids by Kosovar police in the country's Serb-dominated north threatens to ignite the Balkan tinderbox.
As Kosovo's parliament debated Serbian war crimes, a lawmaker presented a graphic image that she claimed showed Serbian soldiers raping an Albanian woman who, she said, currently lives in Kosovo. It was in fact a still from an adult film that was posted online.
Major General Timothy Orr, the National Guard commander of the U.S. state of Iowa, has canceled a visit to Kosovo over Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj's refusal to cancel 100 percent tariffs on goods from Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Kosovo court begins interviews as it looks to prosecute suspected crimes, including human organ trafficking.
As Europe's newest state celebrates 10 years of independence, a stalemate over lyrics to Kosovo's national anthem highlights simmering ethnic tensions.
President Hashim Thaci says that after years of talks, Kosovo and Serbia are entering a “new phase of dialogue” as they look to sign a comprehensive agreement to benefit both countries on the path of European integration.
The Vetevendosje party moves from the fringe to front and center as Kosovo's so-called war faction pays the price for corruption.
In Europe's newest state, a campaign devoid of major scandals is a marked departure from other recent elections in the Balkans.
Conscious of its image as a leading source of Islamic State recruits in the Middle East, Kosovo tries to stem religiously fueled radicalization in its prisons.
Some 20,000 Kosovar Albanian women are believed to have been systematically raped during the 1998-99 war in Kosovo. Only 100 have ever sought help. Fifteen years after the war's end, one rape survivor explains why in a rare interview.
