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Opinion: A path to peace in Middle East is possible. Here’s how
1 year, 1 month ago

Opinion: A path to peace in Middle East is possible. Here’s how

CNN  

Editor’s note: Ambassador Miriam Sapiro is a nonresident senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. A similarly firm hand — and robust US leadership — will also be necessary for any peace deal to be forged in the Middle East. Concrete prospects for renewing peace efforts in the Middle East will depend on several interrelated issues, including …

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Bosnian Serbs stage protests in support of their separatist leader
1 year, 3 months ago

Bosnian Serbs stage protests in support of their separatist leader

Associated Press  

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Hundreds of Bosnian Serbs waved flags of Serbia and Russia and banners of Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday as they staged a protest in support of their separatist leader who seeks union with neighboring Serbia. The protests were held at the unmarked internal border in Bosnia that separates the country into two entities — the Bosnian …

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Serbia to ignore US sanctions against Bosnian Serbs accused of undermining deal that ended the war
1 year, 4 months ago

Serbia to ignore US sanctions against Bosnian Serbs accused of undermining deal that ended the war

The Independent  

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Serbia to ignore US sanctions against Bosnian Serbs accused of undermining deal that ended the war
1 year, 4 months ago

Serbia to ignore US sanctions against Bosnian Serbs accused of undermining deal that ended the war

Associated Press  

BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Serbia will ignore U.S. sanctions recently imposed on top Bosnian Serb officials for undermining a 1995 peace agreement that ended a war that left more than 100,000 dead and millions homeless, the Serbian president said Friday. “It is hard, but that’s the only possible decision.” The four Bosnian Serb officials sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury on …

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Thousands march in Bosnia to mark 1995 Srebrenica genocide as ethnic tensions linger on
1 year, 5 months ago

Thousands march in Bosnia to mark 1995 Srebrenica genocide as ethnic tensions linger on

Associated Press  

NEZUK, Bosnia-Herzegovina — A solemn peace march started on Saturday through the forests in eastern Bosnia in memory of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, Europe’s only acknowledged genocide since World War II. The annual 100-kilometer march retraces a route taken by thousands of men and boys from the Bosniak ethnic group, made up primarily of Muslims, who were slaughtered as they …

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The leaders of the Netherlands and Luxembourg tell Kosovo and Serbia to normalize ties for EU hopes
1 year, 5 months ago

The leaders of the Netherlands and Luxembourg tell Kosovo and Serbia to normalize ties for EU hopes

Associated Press  

PRISTINA, Kosovo — The leaders of the Netherlands and Luxembourg on Tuesday said that normalizing ties between Kosovo and Serbia would serve not only regional peace and stability but also their prospects of future integration into the European Union. Tensions between the two countries flared anew in May after Kosovo police seized local municipal buildings in Serb-majority northern Kosovo to …

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NATO to send 700 more troops to Kosovo to help quell violent protests
1 year, 6 months ago

NATO to send 700 more troops to Kosovo to help quell violent protests

Associated Press  

PRISTINA, Kosovo — NATO will send 700 more troops to northern Kosovo to help quell violent protests after clashes with ethnic Serbs there left 30 international soldiers wounded, the alliance announced Tuesday. In a video message issued Tuesday evening, Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti said the mayors elected on April 23 “are the only ones who have the legitimacy to …

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NATO should renew its commitment to Kosovo
1 year, 11 months ago

NATO should renew its commitment to Kosovo

Al Jazeera  

On December 10, ethnic Serbs started setting up roadblocks in northern Kosovo, near the Serbian border, to protest against the arrest of an ethnic Serb former police officer. The fragile relationship between the two neighbouring countries has been on the verge of collapse since last summer, when Kosovo’s government started taking steps to exercise sovereignty over the country’s entire territory. …

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Serbian troops on Kosovo border in state of ‘combat readiness’
1 year, 11 months ago

Serbian troops on Kosovo border in state of ‘combat readiness’

Al Jazeera  

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has ordered that ‘all measures be taken to protect the Serbian people in Kosovo’. Serbia has placed its security forces on the border with Kosovo in a “full state of combat readiness”, senior officials have said, amid increasingly strained relations with its neighbour and despite calls by the European Union and NATO for tensions to ease …

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Tensions run high in north Kosovo as Serbs block roads
2 years ago

Tensions run high in north Kosovo as Serbs block roads

Associated Press  

PRISTINA, Kosovo — Tensions were high in northern Kosovo on Sunday, with Serbs blocking roads as shots and explosions rang out and the Serbian president warned that Serbian troops are ready to defend their “homeland” if peace doesn’t prevail. The roads in Serbia’s former province of Kosovo, which proclaimed independence in 2008, were blocked with heavy vehicles and trucks a …

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Tensions run high in north Kosovo as Serbs block roads
2 years ago

Tensions run high in north Kosovo as Serbs block roads

LA Times  

Serbs block the road near the village of Rudare, north of the Serb-dominated part of the ethnically divided town of Mitrovica, Kosovo, on Sunday. Tensions were high in northern Kosovo on Sunday, with Serbs blocking roads as shots and explosions rang out and the Serbian president warned that Serbian troops are ready to defend their “homeland” if peace doesn’t prevail. …

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US imposes sanctions against Bosnian Serb leader Dodik
2 years, 11 months ago

US imposes sanctions against Bosnian Serb leader Dodik

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration announced sanctions Wednesday against Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik, accusing him of “corrupt activities” that threaten to destabilize the region and undermine a U.S.-brokered peace accord from more than 25 years ago. Also Wednesday, the State Department accused one current and one former senior Bosnia and Herzegovina official of corruption, designations that prevent them from …

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Bosnia’s peace envoy imposes ban on genocide denial
3 years, 5 months ago

Bosnia’s peace envoy imposes ban on genocide denial

Al Jazeera  

Valentin Inzko has set jail terms for anyone who ‘publicly condones, denies, grossly trivialises or tries to justify’ the genocide in Srebrenica or war crimes committed in Bosnia. Inzko set the jail terms for anyone who “publicly condones, denies, grossly trivialises or tries to justify” the genocide or war crimes committed during Bosnia’s 1992-95 international armed conflict. ‘Serbs must never …

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Israel's big lie: This isn't self defense — it's a war crime, aided and abetted by the U.S.
3 years, 7 months ago

Israel's big lie: This isn't self defense — it's a war crime, aided and abetted by the U.S.

Salon  

Nearly all the words and phrases used by the Democrats, Republicans and the talking heads on the media to describe the unrest inside Israel and the heaviest Israeli assault against the Palestinians since the 2014 attacks on Gaza, which lasted 51 days and killed more than 2,200 Palestinians, including 551 children, are a lie. That the lie of Israel continues …

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