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NATO chief commits to Bosnia’s territorial integrity and condemns ‘malign’ Russian influence
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg shakes hands with Bosnian Prime Minister Borjana Kristo during his visit to Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, November 20, 2023. REUTERS/Amel Emric
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Serbia’s president denies troop buildup near Kosovo, alleges ‘campaign of lies’ in wake of clashes
Kosovo police members of Special Intervention Unit escort one of the arrested Serb gunmen out of the court after the Kosovo shootout in capital Pristina, on Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)
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NATO says it has authorized additional forces for Kosovo
Members of NATO led peacekeeping mission in Kosovo set up checkpoint on the road leading to the Banjska Monastery in the village of Banjska on Sunday, Sept.24, 2023. Kosovo's prime minister on Sunday said one police officer was killed and another wounded in an attack he blamed on support from neighboring Serbia, increasing tensions between the two former war foes at a delicate moment in their European Union-facilitated dialogue to normalize ties. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)
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Kosovar police surround a village after Serb gunmen storm a monastery in violence that has killed four
FILE - From left, Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic, European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, EU Special Representative Miroslav Lajcak and Kosovo's Prime Minister Albin Kurti meet together in Brussels, Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023. Kosovo’s Prime Minister on Monday, Sept. 18, 2023, accused the European Union special envoy in the normalization talks with Serbia of not being “neutral and correct” and “coordinating” with Belgrade against Pristina. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)
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Dutch, Luxembourg PMs urge Serbia, Kosovo to defuse tensions under shadow of war in Ukraine
Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel speaks during a press conference after talks with Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic and Netherland's Prime Minister Mark Rutte at the Serbia Palace, in Belgrade, Serbia, Monday, July 3, 2023. Rutte and Bettel are on a one day visit to Serbia. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
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NATO ready to deploy even more troops to quell unrest in Kosovo, Stoltenberg says
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at a press conference at the National Museum in Oslo after NATO's informal meeting of foreign ministers, in Oslo, Norway June 1, 2023. Stian Lysberg Solum/NTB/via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. NORWAY OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN NORWAY.
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Djokovic must abstain from political messages at French Open, Sports Minister says
Tennis - French Open - Roland Garros, Paris, France - May 29, 2023 Serbia's Novak Djokovic warms up before his first round match against Aleksandar Kovacevic of the U.S. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne
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Western efforts mount to defuse crisis in Kosovo as ethnic Serbs in Kosovo rally anew after clashes
A U.S. Kosovo Force (KFOR) soldier, under NATO, stands guard near a municipal office in Leposavic, Kosovo May 31, 2023. REUTERS/Fatos Bytyci
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NATO to deploy more troops to Kosovo town to curb violence
NATO Kosovo Force (KFOR) soldiers clash with local Kosovo Serb protesters at the entrance of the municipality office, in the town of Zvecan, Kosovo, May 29, 2023. REUTERS/Laura Hasani
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NATO soldiers injured in Kosovo clashes with Serb protesters
KFOR soldiers guard a municipal building in the town of Zvecan, northern Kosovo, Monday, May 29, 2023. Serbia condemned NATO-led peacekeepers stationed in neighboring Kosovo for their alleged failure to stop "brutal actions" by Kosovo police against ethnic Serbs, and said that its armed forces stationed near the border will remain on the highest state of alert until further notice. (AP Photo/Bojan Slavkovic)
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Serbian troops on high alert after ethnic clashes in Kosovo
A police water cannon tries to extinguish the fire from a burning police car, during clashes between Kosovo police and ethnic Serb protesters, who tried to prevent a newly-elected ethnic Albanian mayor from entering his office, in the town of Zvecan, Kosovo, May 26, 2023. REUTERS/Miodrag Draskic
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Kosovo and Serbia agree to share information on missing people from 1990s war
FILE PHOTO: Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, Kosovar Prime Minister Albin Kurti, European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell and EU Special Representative of Europe Miroslav Lajcak attend EU-sponsored talks in Brussels, Belgium February 27, 2023. REUTERS/Johanna Geron/File Photo
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Kosovo’s former president Thaci tells international judges he’s innocent during hearing
This photograph taken on April 3, 2023, shows the defense team of of former KLA leaders including former president Hashim Thaci, Kadri Veseli, Jakup Krasniqi and Rexhep Selimi, all appearing on charges of war crimes before the Kosovo Tribunal in The Hague. - KLA leaders including former Kosovo president Hashim Thaci go on trial at a Hague war crimes tribunal on April 3, accused of a bloody campaign of murder and torture in the 1998-1999 independence war with Serbia. The one-time guerrilla hero, who denies the charges, allegedly targeted perceived enemies of the ethnic Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), including Serbs and Roma, as the rebels sought to seize power. (Photo by Koen van Weel / ANP / AFP) / Netherlands OUT (Photo by KOEN VAN WEEL/ANP/AFP via Getty Images)
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Former Kosovo president Hashim Thaci pleads not guilty to war crimes
A giant banner depicting former Kosovan President Hashim Thaci and former Parliament speaker Kadri Veseli is displayed in Pristina on April 3, 2023. - KLA leaders including former Kosovo president Hashim Thaci go on trial at a Hague war crimes tribunal on April 3, accused of a bloody campaign of murder and torture in the 1998-1999 independence war with Serbia. The one-time guerrilla hero, who denies the charges, allegedly targeted perceived enemies of the ethnic Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), including Serbs and Roma, as the rebels sought to seize power. (Photo by Armend NIMANI / AFP) (Photo by ARMEND NIMANI/AFP via Getty Images)
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Kosovo war crimes court begins trial of ex-guerrilla chief and president Hashim Thaci
A huge billboard depicting former Kosovo president Hashim Thaci is displayed on a building in Pristina on March 31, 2023. - War crimes trial of former Kosovo president Hashim Thaci starts on April 3, 2023 in The Hague. Since the establishment of Kosovo in 2017, the court has investigated several former commanders of Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) for possible war crimes, including former KLA political commander Hashim Thaci, who dominated Kosovo's politics after it declared independence from Serbia in 2008, and rose to become president of the tiny country. (Photo by Armend NIMANI / AFP) (Photo by ARMEND NIMANI/AFP via Getty Images)
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Serbia, Kosovo reach agreement to implement EU-backed deal normalizing ties
European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell holds a news conference, following meetings with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Kosovar Prime Minister Albin Kurti, in Ohrid, North Macedonia March 18, 2023.REUTERS/Ognen Teofilovski
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Kosovo prime minister accepts EU’s peace deal with Serbia, with caveats
Kosovo's Prime Minister Albin Kurti speaks during an interview with Reuters at his office in Pristina, Kosovo August 10, 2022. REUTERS/Fedja Grulovic
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U.S. urges Kosovo to back peace deal, form group of Serb municipalities
US embassy charge d'affaires Jeffrey Hovenier (L) leaves the Caglayan courthouse on May 15, 2019, in Istanbul, after US consular staffer Metin Topuz was ordered to remain in custody after the latest hearing in his trial on espionage charges -- part of a growing rift between Washington and Ankara. - Topuz was arrested in 2017 and accused of contacts with police and a prosecutor suspected of ties to US-based Muslim preacher Fethullah Gulen, who Ankara says ordered an attempted coup in 2016. (Photo by Bulent Kilic / AFP)BULENT KILIC/AFP/Getty Images
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Kosovo reopens major border crossing with Serbia, easing standoff
FILE PHOTO: A view of Merdare border crossing between Kosovo and Serbia which was closed by Kosovo after protesters blocked it on the Serbian side to support their ethnic kin in Kosovo in refusing to recognise the country's independence, near Podujevo, Kosovo, December 28, 2022. REUTERS/Florion Goga/File Photo
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Kremlin says it supports Serbia, denies accusations that Russia is stoking tensions in Kosovo
Locals walk near a roadblock in the northern part of the ethnically-divided town of Mitrovica, Kosovo, December 28, 2022. REUTERS/Florion Goga
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Serbs put up new roadblocks as tensions soar in Kosovo
A man passes by a barricade made of trucks loaded with stones that was erected during the night on a street in northern, Serb-dominated part of ethnically divided town of Mitrovica, Kosovo, Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2022. Serbia on Monday placed its security troops on the border with Kosovo on "the full state of combat readiness," ignoring NATO's calls for calming down of tensions between the two wartime Balkan foes. (AP Photo/Bojan Slavkovic)
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Shots fired near NATO patrol in Kosovo’s volatile north, NATO says
US soldiers serving in NATO-led peacekeeping force KFOR, place a barbed wire at a checkpoint on the road near the northern Kosovo border crossing of Jarinje, along the Kosovo-Serbia border, Kosovo, Sunday, Dec. 18, 2022. Tensions between Serbia and Kosovo flared anew during the past week after Serbs erected barricades on the main roads in the north of the province to protest the arrest of a former Kosovo Serb police officer. (AP Photo/Marjan Vucetic)
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Former Kosovo rebel commander convicted of 1999 murder
Salih Mustafa, a former Kosovo rebel, waits in the Kosovo Specialist Chambers court for the judges to read the verdict in The Hague, Netherlands, December 16, 2022. Mustafa is charged with the war crimes of arbitrary detention, cruel treatment, the torture of at least six people and the murder of one person at a detention compound in Zllash, Kosovo, in April 1999. Salih Mustafa pleaded not guilty to all charges. Peter Dejong/Pool via REUTERS
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Tensions run high in north Kosovo as Serbs block roads
Local Serbs walk on the road by a barricade near the village of Rudare, north of Serb-dominated part of ethnically divided town of Mitrovica, Kosovo, Sunday, Dec. 11, 2022. Kosovo police and the local media on Sunday reported explosions, shooting and road blocks overnight in the north of the country, where the population is mostly ethnic Serb, despite the postponement of the Dec. 18 municipal election the Serbs were opposed to. No injuries have been reported. (AP Photo/Bojan Slavkovic)
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Kosovo police exchange fire with local Serbs blocking roads
Kosovo Serbs block the road near the village of Rudine, North Mitrovica, Kosovo December 10, 2022. REUTERS/Ognen Teofilovski
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Serbia will ask NATO to deploy Serb military and police in Kosovo, president says
Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic talks to the press as he arrives for the EU-Western Balkans summit in Tirana, on December 6, 2022. (Photo by Ludovic MARIN / AFP) (Photo by LUDOVIC MARIN/AFP via Getty Images)
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Serbia mulls sending troops to Kosovo as tensions escalate
A Kosovo police officer guards a street in northern, Serb-dominated, part of ethnically divided town of Mitrovica, Kosovo, Friday, Dec. 9, 2022. On Thursday, police increased their presence in the four ethnic Serb-dominated communes in the north, where snap election will be held Dec. 18 following the abandonment of local posts by ethnic Serb minority representatives. (AP Photo/Bojan Slavkovic)
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FIFA brings disciplinary charges against Serbia for team, fans conduct at World Cup
DOHA, QATAR - DECEMBER 02: The LED board shows the match attendance during the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Group G match between Serbia and Switzerland at Stadium 974 on December 02, 2022 in Doha, Qatar. (Photo by Justin Setterfield/Getty Images)
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NATO ready to send more troops to Kosovo in case of fresh unrest
A guard post manned by American soldiers on the main road north out of Mitrovica, Kosovo, on Aug. 30, 2022. Many ethnic Serbs, nursing grievances against NATO for a 1999 bombing campaign that broke SerbiaÕs grip on the territory, see President Vladimir PutinÕs Russia as a potential savior. (Armend Nimani/The New York Times)
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Serbian president says EuroPride won’t happen because of threats, fears of clashes
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic addresses the nation at a news conference in Belgrade, Serbia, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. Vucic has called on NATO on Sunday to "do their job" in Kosovo, or Serbia will have to protect its minority in the breakaway province. Address to his nation by Aleksandar Vucic followed the collapse of political talks between Serbian and Kosovo leaders mediated earlier this week by the European Union in Brussels. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
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EU-mediated meeting between leaders of Serbia, Kosovo ends without agreement
European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell speaks during a media conference after a meeting with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Kosovo's Prime Minister Albin Kurti in Brussels on Thursday, Aug. 18, 2022. Wartime rivals Serbia and Kosovo are holding high-level crisis talks on Thursday which European Union mediators hope will de-escalate growing tensions in the Balkans, where Russia has tried to further increase its influence amid the war in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
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EU to host Serbia-Kosovo talks in Brussels amid rising tensions
Kosovo's Prime Minister Albin Kurti speaks during a joint news conference with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg (not pictured) at the alliance's headquarters in Brussels, Belgium August 17, 2022. REUTERS/Johanna Geron
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Kosovo PM says tensions with Serbs in north could escalate, warns of possible new conflict
Kosovo's Prime Minister Albin Kurti speaks during an interview with Reuters at his office in Pristina, Kosovo August 10, 2022. REUTERS/Fedja Grulovic