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31 July 2022 – 1 January 2024. Location. North Kosovo and Merdare border crossing; spillover into Serbia. Status. Kosovo Serbs withdraw from Kosovo government institutions. Kosovo Serbs barricade roads from 10–30 December 2022. Serbian boycott of local elections; ethnic Albanian mayors elected in all four North Kosovo municipalities in ...
Pristina is the capital city of Kosovo. North Kosovo is highlighted in red. Triggered by the Government of Kosovo 's decision to reciprocally ban Serbian license plates, a series of protests by Serbs in North Kosovo —consisting mostly of blocking traffic near border crossings— began on 20 September 2021. The ban meant that individuals who ...
PRISTINA (Reuters) -NATO is looking into a more permanent increase in the number of troops in the Western Balkans to keep tensions under control, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on ...
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Tuesday that the military organization has sent 700 more troops to Kosovo to help quell violent protests and has put another battalion on standby in ...
In 1991, Kosovo Albanians proclaimed the establishment of the Republic of Kosova, with Albania only recognizing it as an independent state. The aftermath of the Kosovo War led to the United Nations establishing a governance in Kosovo and NATO establishing the Kosovo Force (KFOR).
The Kosovo War ( Albanian: Lufta e Kosovës, Serbian: Косовски рат, Kosovski rat) was an armed conflict in Kosovo that lasted from 28 February 1998 until 11 June 1999. [56] [57] [58] It was fought between the forces of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (i.e. Serbia and Montenegro), which controlled Kosovo before the war, and the ...
The political status of Kosovo, also known as the Kosovo question, is the subject of a long-running political and territorial dispute between the Serbian (and previously, Yugoslav) government and the Government of Kosovo, stemming from the breakup of Yugoslavia (1991–92) and the ensuing Kosovo War (1998–99). In 1999, the administration of ...
The Kosovo population also support the US engagement with the Balkans, which is viewed as anti-Serbian. After the Kosovo War, the US remains popular among the Kosovo Albanian population. According to the 2012 U.S. Global Leadership Report, 87% of Kosovars approve of U.S. leadership, the highest rating for any survey in Europe.