Latest News from Albania
Italy and Albania Arrest Three ISIS Recruiters
Albanian police on Wednesday said they had arrested 38-year-old Alban Haki Elezi, from the village of Frakull, near the town of Kavaja in central Albania, acting on an Interpol warrant issued by the Italian authorities.
"His arrest was carried out based on a warrant issued by Interpol Rome and a ruling issued by a court in Brescia, on suspicion of terrorist acts," the statement said.
Radicals protest, burn EU, U.S., NATO flags
Radicals protest, burn EU, U.S., NATO flags
BELGRADE -- Supporters of the Serb Radical Party (SRS) on Tuesday staged a protest in Belgrade when they burned flags of NATO, the EU, the United States, and Kosovo.
The protest was held in front of the General Staff building in Belgrade that was destroyed in the NATO bombing that started this day 16 years ago.
Albania PM's 'One Nation' Talk Alarms Serbia
Nikola Selakovic, Serbian Justice Minister, said Serbia would not "keep quiet" over the potential creation of a "Greater Albania", which Selakovic said Edi Rama, the Albanian Prime Minister had endorsed on Monday.
Croatia Leads NATO Balkan Team in Afghanistan
Montenegro, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania and Macedonia are set to sign a agreement on their joint participation in the new NATO-led mission in Afghanistan.
The defence ministers of the countries will shortly sign the technical contract on deploying troops in a joint unit in a mission codenamed Resolute Support, which launched in January.
"Serbia won't sit quietly as Greater Albania is created"
"Serbia won't sit quietly as Greater Albania is created"
BELGRADE -- Serbian Justice Minister Nikola Selakovic has said that the country "cannot and will not" react quietly to the creation of a Greater Albania.
He remarked that "they need not hide it under any other guise, because (Greater Albania) is obviously what this is about," and "called on the EU to oppose it."
Albania PM Pans EU's 'Unjust' Visa Policy on Kosovo
"The current visa regime toward Kosovo is cynical injustice, which should come to and sooner than later, because it does not only offend the dignity of Kosovo's people but also the dignity of Europe," Rama said on Monday.
"Keeping Kosovo under the current visa regime is a shame for Europe," he added.