The International Monetary Fund says it will terminate a loan deal with Kosovo before its scheduled expiration date because the Balkan country does not have a government in place.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic says his country must resolve its differences with its former province of Kosovo to establish a “permanent” solution to benefit the entire region.
Ilir Meta has been sworn in as Albania's new president during an extraordinary session of parliament in the capital, Tirana.
Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni opened an EU-Western Balkans summit on July 12 in the the northern port city of Trieste -- the fourth such meeting since 2014.
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.
Kosovo’s President Hashim Thaci says that Ramush Haradinaj, leader of the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), has enough support in parliament to form a coalition government after general elections were held in June.
A Kosovo court has sentenced an Albanian citizen to 180 hours of community labor for raising a flag of the Islamic State (IS) extremist group at a crossroads in Pristina.
Kosovo’s Constitutional Court on June 28 cleared the way for a war crimes tribunal to prosecute former senior ethnic Albanian commanders from the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA).
The leaders of Kosovo and Serbia said on June 28 that they favor the idea of renewed talks in order to ease months of tensions between Pristina and Belgrade.
Serbs in Kosovo gathered in Gazimestan to mark St. Vitus's Day. Many Serbs still claim Kosovo as part of Serbia, and the ceremony has been a focal point for nationalists. (RFE/RL's Balkan Service)
In the early 20th century, the symbolism attached to the Battle of Kosovo was used as a unifying force among South Slavs (Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, and others) in the process of creating the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Yet what became known as the "Kosovo Myth" also had a more divisive, darker side, not least when it was invoked by Slobodan Milosevic to let the genie of nationalism out of the bottle, helping unleash the Balkan wars of the 1990s. (The views expressed in this blog post do not necessarily reflect the views of RFE/RL.)
In Kosovo's capital, Pristina, worshippers attended Eid al-Fitr prayers on June 25 at Sultan Mehmet Fatih Mosque, built under Ottoman rule in the 15th century. (RFE/RL's Balkan Service)
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