Recent days have seen another political flare-up in Eastern Europe—this time in Kosovo, where ethnic Serbs in the country’s north recently came to blows with NATO peacekeepers. Serbia’s military has since been deployed near the border with Kosovo, while NATO has announced plans to reinforce its Kosovo peacekeeping force (KFOR). In 2008, Kosovo—with U.S. backing—declared…

NATO has warned Kosovo against taking “destabilizing steps” after clashes erupted between Kosovan police and ethnic Serbs who tried to block newly-elected Albanian mayors from entering municipal buildings. “Pristina must de-escalate [and] not take unilateral, destabilizing steps,” NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg stated on Twitter on Sunday, referring to the capital city of Kosovo. Stoltenberg said…

Supporters of former President Donald Trump began to rally at Trump Tower in NYC ahead of his arrival, before his expected arraignment in the case brought by Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg. Wisconsin voters are electing a new state Supreme Court justice, and whoever wins the race will have a significant impact on the state and…

Commentary Why, at this time, has the Turkish government been secretly shipping truck convoys of weapons across Albania and into Kosovo, once controlled by the Ottoman Empire? It is being done with the clear cooperation of the Albanian government, and seemingly with the knowledge of the United States and United Kingdom governments. Indeed, to what…

MITROVICA, Kosovo—Serbia on Monday placed its security troops on the border with Kosovo on “the full state of combat readiness,” and on Tuesday erected more roadblocks in northern Kosovo and defied international demands to remove those placed earlier. The new barriers, made of heavily loaded trucks, were put up overnight in Mitrovica, a northern Kosovo…

Commentary A previous opinion piece discussed how the world had treated the Republic of Kosovo differently to the People’s Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk. This different treatment reveals the existence of a double standard with regard to secession and self-determination of ethnic groups under international law. While the West welcomed the secession of Kosovo from…

Commentary One really wonders how many people still remember that on July 17, 2014, a scheduled Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17) from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was shot down by pro-Russian Donetsk separatists in Ukraine. All 289 passengers and crew died in the tragedy, including 80 children. The President of Russia Vladimir Putin, denied the…

PRISTINA—A man was killed and a woman injured when a falling tree hit them during a storm in Kosovo’s capital Pristina on Monday afternoon, police said. Less than an hour later, another man was killed and his workmate injured when lightning hit them in a marble quarry in the southwestern town of Rahovec, officers added….

Some volunteers of America won’t quit, even when they’re dying—or supposed to be as good as dead. Such was the case with veteran American volunteers Bill and Susan Burtness of Illinois. Now in their 70s, they advise fellow volunteers who may be weary from well-doing,  ”Don’t quit. the best is yet to come.” “If you…

PRISTINA, Kosovo—Kosovo has ordered the expulsion of two Russian diplomats for allegedly “endangering national security,” the Balkan country’s president said Friday, accusing Russia of trying to destabilize the region. President Vjosa Osmani said in a statement that she asked the foreign ministry “to declare two officials of the Liaison Office of the Russian Federation in…