Amra Zejneli Loxha is the Regional Director for Central Europe at RFE/RL.
US and Israeli air strikes are delivering military blows against Iran, but Washington still lacks a defined political strategy for what comes after the fighting, Dana Stroul, former deputy assistant secretary of defense for the Middle East said in an interview with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
Washington’s objectives in the war with Iran are both military and political, including neutralizing the threat Tehran poses to the US and its allies and creating conditions for political change, according to Nathan Sales, former U.S. ambassador-at-large and coordinator for counterterrorism.
General Jack Keane, a retired four-star general and former Vice Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, says the US-Israeli military campaign launched against Iran on February 28 is a calculated effort to dismantle the Islamic Republic’s political and military architecture.
Kosovar President Vjosa Osmani says Kosovo is in consultations with the international community on opening the main bridge in Mitrovica that divides ethnic Albanian and Serbian communities.
Kosovar Prime Minister Albin Kurti says he will not suspend a ban by the central bank on the Serbian dinar in parts of the country with Serbian majorities but will accept the forming of an Association of Serb-Majority Municipalities once Belgrade agrees to sign an agreement on bilateral relations.
Frustration is growing among Kosovo's Western backers, a senior U.S. diplomat told RFE/RL's Balkan Service, because of Prime Minister Albin Kurti's refusal to reverse a ban on the use of Serbia's dinar in the country's ethnic-Serb dominated north.
Speaking to RFE/RL in an interview a week after EU-mediated talks between Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti and Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic in Brussels, U.S. Ambassador to Kosovo Jeffrey Hovenier warned both countries risk losing opportunities if compromises aren’t found.
The U.S. special envoy for the Western Balkans, Gabriel Escobar, stressed in an interview with RFE/RL the importance of creating an association of municipalities with majority Serb residents as a necessary step forward for the region.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said he will ask a NATO-led international peacekeeping force to permit the deployment of Serbian military and police into neighboring Kosovo, an unprecedented move that will likely escalate already-high tensions between the two Balkan nations.
During a visit to Kosovo, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said the alliance-led peacekeeping force will remain in the country to secure “peace and stability” in the Western Balkans, and urged local leaders to work toward normalizing relations with neighboring Serbia.
Former Kosovar President Hashim Thaci will make his initial court appearance on November 9 on charges of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Kosovar President Hashim Thaci, a guerrilla leader during the country's war for independence from Serbia in the 1990s, has resigned after confirming that he has been indicted for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Authorities in Kosovo have announced restrictions on movement in the capital, Pristina, and three other cities after a dramatic increase in both new cases of coronavirus infections and deaths in the country.
Sixteen-year-old Ilija Ivic is a rangy, neatly coiffed defender and the first ethnic Serb to be called up to play on a national soccer team for Kosovo. But the immediate impact of that promotion has been fairly ugly.
Kosovo's new prime minister spent years challenging powerful elites in Belgrade, Pristina, and the international community. Now it's his time to lead.
Kosovo's government says it is banning Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic from entering the country after comments she made that Pristina took as being "racist."
European diplomats are warning that a dispute pitting Serbia and Russia against Kosovo over a series of raids by Kosovar police in the country's Serb-dominated north threatens to ignite the Balkan tinderbox.
As Kosovo's parliament debated Serbian war crimes, a lawmaker presented a graphic image that she claimed showed Serbian soldiers raping an Albanian woman who, she said, currently lives in Kosovo. It was in fact a still from an adult film that was posted online.
Major General Timothy Orr, the National Guard commander of the U.S. state of Iowa, has canceled a visit to Kosovo over Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj's refusal to cancel 100 percent tariffs on goods from Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Kosovo court begins interviews as it looks to prosecute suspected crimes, including human organ trafficking.
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