Shkelqim Hysenaj is an executive producer for RFE/RL's Kosovo Service.
On September 24, 2023, dozens of ethnic Serb gunmen attacked a police unit in the village of Banjska in northern Kosovo. The motives behind the attack remain unclear. This month, Kosovar authorities indicted 45 people over the assault, including a politician who is thought to be at large in Serbia.
It is 25 years since the NATO-led KFOR force arrived in Kosovo to keep the peace between ethnic Albanians and Serbs, and Fatmir Kelmendi still has vivid memories of welcoming French soldiers to the town of Mitrovica.
A humble, dilapidated house nestled in the village of Poklek in central Kosovo has become an unlikely museum that confronts visitors with the haunting remnants of an atrocity that took place 25 years ago when 53 Albanian civilians were killed, and their bodies burned by Serbian police forces.
The Israeli men's national soccer team was warming up at a Pristina stadium guarded by the police on November 11, a day before facing Kosovo in a postponed qualifying match for the Euro 2024 tournament. The game will be the Israeli team's first international appearance since the Hamas attacks.
After the collapse of a massive investment plan, empty hotels patrolled by security guards have become symbols of uncertainty for the future of one of Kosovo's most picturesque ski resorts.
Xhafer Deva's role in a Nazi-backed government prompted UN and EU officials to retreat from a Kosovar heritage project to restore his former home in one of the Balkans' most bitterly divided cities.
Kosovo's two largest power plants are also the country's largest polluters, and residents who live near the coal-burning stations link the emissions to serious health conditions. Environmental groups say poor regulations on industry have allowed pollution to continue unchecked.
Two crossings along the Kosovo-Serbia border have reopened to traffic as ethnic Serbian protesters removed vehicles, Kosovar special police units withdrew, and NATO troops moved in as part of an EU-mediated deal to defuse a tense standoff sparked by a dispute over vehicle license plates.
Twenty years ago, 45 ethnic Albanian civilians were killed by Serbian-led security forces in the Kosovar village of Racak. The massacre sparked international outrage and was one of the factors that led to the 1999 NATO bombing campaign that ended the bloody two-year war of Kosovar independence.
