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NATO will not allow the Balkan region to slip back into violence amid simmering tensions between Kosovo and Serbia over a border dispute, the alliance's secretary-general said Thursday.
Kosovo's Prime Minister Hashim Thaci said Monday he won't back away from his drive to extend authority over the Serb-run north, which rejects Kosovo's independence.
A European Union prosecutor in Kosovo has indicted a Turkish and an Israeli national for involvement in an international network that falsely promised poor people money for their kidneys and then transplanted the organs into rich buyers, the bloc's rule of law mission said Monday.
Kosovo's parliament has elected Atifete Jahjaga as its new president, the first woman to head the state.
A senior Kosovo politician and former rebel leader was indicted by an EU prosecutor for allegedly executing and torturing Serb prisoners of war during the 1998-99 war, according to a copy of the indictment obtained by The Associated Press on Wednesday.
Ethnic Albanian rebels in Kosovo gave detailed testimony in 2003 on an alleged program to kill Serb captives, sell their organs, and bury hundreds of victims to hide evidence of civilian killings, according to a U.N. document obtained by The Associated Press.
Kosovo's Prime Minister Hashim Thaci said Thursday that a report suggesting he was the head of a criminal gang behind a grisly trade in the kidneys of slain civilian detainees was "monstrous" and "scandalous."
At least nine people, including a former senior Health Ministry official, are suspected of involvement in an international network that falsely promised poor people payment for their kidneys, then sold the organs for as much as euro100,000 ($137,000), according to an indictment obtained by The Associated Press.
Kosovo's largest public university should abolish its ban on hiring staff who are over 50 years old, a top human rights official said Tuesday.
Police in Kosovo arrested the head of the country's central bank and raided his home and office Friday, the latest in a series of investigations targeting alleged corruption in the Balkan nation.
A gunman wounded a Serb member of Kosovo's parliament on Monday, police said, in an attack that could further stoke ethnic tensions in the unstable region.
Riot police in Kosovo used tear gas and pepper spray Sunday to separate hundreds of ethnic Albanian protesters from rock-throwing Serbs voting in local Serbian elections in the tense, divided town of Mitrovica.
NATO is suspending the training of Kosovo's security troops after a military-style parade that broke the force's agreement to focus only on civil emergencies, it said Sunday.
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.
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.
Four Serbs were arrested Wednesday under suspicion of committing war crimes against ethnic Albanian civilians during the 1998-99 Kosovo war, EU police said.
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.
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.
A team of French officers moved into Kosovo's northernmost border post with Serbia on Tuesday as the European Union took over policing the tiny new country from the United Nations.
Citizens of Kosovo — the world's newest nation — lined up for hours Wednesday to receive the fledgling republic's first passports.
Kosovo's government took control of the newly independent nation Sunday as the country's constitution went into force after nine years of U.N. administration.
A human rights group said Monday that new evidence has emerged to warrant further investigation into claims that ethnic Albanian guerrillas in Kosovo killed Serbs and sold their organs.
Police stopped a car carrying weapons and ammunition from Kosovo toward Macedonia on Monday and arrested four Kosovo Albanians, authorities said.
Kosovo's former prime minister urged ethnic Albanians on Tuesday to reach out to the Serb minority in an effort to overcome objections to Kosovo's declaration of independence.
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