BANJSKA, Kosovo — Kosovar Prime Minister Albin Kurti on Tuesday held Serbia accountable for trying to annex part of Kosovo following an incursion of Serb gunmen who killed a police officer in a shootout last year that raised tensions between the sides. The plan was to annex part of its territory.” Kurti said the paramilitary group was “orchestrated and financed …
BELGRADE, Serbia — A court in Serbia on Wednesday released from a brief detention a Kosovo Serb leader who has been linked to a clash with Kosovo security forces in which four people died, sending tensions soaring in the volatile region. Kosovo has accused Serbia of orchestrating the “act of aggression” against its former province whose 2008 declaration of independence …
BELGRADE, Serbia — Serbian police on Tuesday detained an ethnic Serb leader from Kosovo who was the alleged organizer behind a recent shootout with Kosovo police that left four people dead and sent tensions soaring in the region. Police said they also searched the apartment and other property in Serbia belonging to Milan Radoicic, a politician and wealthy businessman with …
BELGRADE, Serbia — Serbia’s president demanded Tuesday to have a NATO-led peacekeeping force take over for the national law enforcement agency in northern Kosovo after a daylong shootout between armed Serbs and Kosovar police left one officer and three gunmen dead. He said he wanted the NATO-led Kosovo Force, or KFOR, to take over “all the security matters in the …