Gjilan

Enver Hoxhaj stops his tractor near to where a Kosovo Liberation Army guerrilla unit was based 24 years ago, during the war.

In the pastoral village of Budakova/Budakovo in Kosovo's Suhareka/Suva Reka municipality, Hoxhaj then joins some of his former guerrilla comrades in the garden of a nearby café.

The Kosovo Specialist Prosecutor's Office has added fresh war crime charges to the indictment of former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci and three other guerilla Kosovo Liberation Army leaders turned politicians who have been awaiting the trial in detention in The Hague since November 2020.

A court in Kosovo on Thursday jailed a 19-year-old from the town of Gjilan in eastern Kosovo for three years for joining ISIS in Syria.

Florent Bajrami was found guilty of having participated in ISIS formations during February to May 2015.

PRISTINA - The Basic Court of Pristina has extended by two months the detention of 32 terrorist suspects, and ordered six suspects to be placed under house arrest, media from Pristina reported Wednesday.

The President of Kosovo, Atifete Jahjaga, on Monday praised the country's police for rounding up 40 suspected Islamist militants, saying that “Kosovo will not be a shelter for extremism.”

“We will never allow our country to become a source of criminal and terrorist acts that threaten peace and stability,” she said.