Slobodan Milosevic

Franko Simatovic (right) and Jovica Stanisic in court in June 2017. Photo: EPA/Michael Kooren/Reuters pool.

The prosecution will then present its own appeal against the verdict on Wednesday, urging the UN court to convict the defendants of other wartime crimes of which they were initially acquitted and impose longer sentences.

Having been born in London, I fully acknowledge the privilege afforded to my family and me. I did not experience the Kosovo war first-hand, but I cannot say it left me completely unscathed.

At the Security Council /UNSC/, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kosovo, Donika Gervalla, stated that Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic is preparing a military aggression in the Balkans like that of Vladimir Putin in Ukraine.

The Hague Tribunal's archives reveal fascinating details about the confidential meeting between Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic and his Croatian counterpart Franjo Tudjman at Karadjordjevo in 1991, when they discussed forming their own expanded states at Bosnia's expense.

In the spring of 1999, prominent Montenegrin photojournalist Stevo Vasiljevic was covering the impact of NATO's airstrikes against Yugoslavia during the Western military alliance's 78-day bombing campaign.

Ridvan Slivova has been assigned to shoot hundreds of events during his career as a photographer, but the best picture that he ever took was shot while he was involuntarily off duty.

Judge Carmel Agius, president of the UN's International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, told the court in The Hague on Thursday that the appeal verdict in the trial of former Serbian State Security Service officials Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic will be delivered "about this time next year".

Some controversies never age and some resurface in different form.

That's what happened on a recent Friday in the Kosovo capital, Pristina, when the furore over Austrian writer Peter Handke's 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature was repackaged for the theatre.

Serbia's Office for Missing Persons on Wednesday said no human remains were found at the Stavalj mine near Sjenica in southwest Serbia, where it was suspected that Kosovo Albanian victims of the Kosovo war were buried.

Anti-war activism plays a significant role in preventing devastating wars and fostering solidarity with victims of war.

Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, we are once again reminded of the importance of anti-war activism among human rights activists.