Insurgency in the Republic of Macedonia

Macedonian police on Tuesday said a group of 40 armed and masked gunmen wearing the markings of an Albanian paramilitary unit, the National Liberation Army, NLA, stormed a police outpost near Kosovo at 2.30 am Tuesday.

Police Spokesperson Ivo Kotevski told a press conference in Skopje that a "terrorist attack" had taken place.

"Terrorists with KLA insignia" seize police outpost

SKOPJE -- 40 armed and masked persons wearing the insignia of the KLA early on Tuesday seized a police outpost in the Macedonian village of Gosnice, Lipkovo municipality.

The KLA (Albanian: UCK) is the now disbanded so-called Kosovo Liberation Army. The Lipkovo municipality is located in northern Macedonia.

Albanian group claims responsibility for attack on govt. HQ

A group calling itself the National Liberation Army has claimed responsibility for Saturday's explosion in front of the Macedonian government HQ in Skopje.

This has been reported by the Albanian language, Pristina-based daily Koha Ditore.

Albanian-language media in Macedonia have reported an exchange of punches between two rival groups at Tuesday's congress of the DUI in the town of Struga, which apparently left one man in hospital with head injuries.

The party itself has stayed silent. Its spokesperson, Bujar Osmani, was not available for comment on Wednesday. The police said no incident was reported.

Explosions near police stations in Macedonia

SKOPJE -- The Macedonian Interior Ministry has confirmed that two explosions occurred near police stations in the towns of Tetovo and Kumanovo.

Nobody was injured in the incidents that took place on Tuesday evening.

Authorities on Wednesday said two possibly synchronized blasts detonated shortly after 9pm Tuesday near police stations in the towns of Tetovo and Kumanovo in western and northern Macedonia. 

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Macedonian NGO Civil - Centre for Freedom, which is launching the report called ‘Reality Check' on Monday in the ethnically-mixed north-western town of Tetovo, said that the recent drive to build scores of new monuments could be a "ticking bomb for inter-ethnic violence" in the future.

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Ethnic Albanians took to the streets again on Friday in protest against the recent conviction of six alleged terrorists.

An ethnic Albanian NGO said that the terrorism convictions of six alleged Islamic extremists over the killings of five ethnic Macedonians in Skopje was a political set-up.

Thirty-one-year-old Adnan Rexhepi from Kumanovo, northern Macedonia, died on Saturday while fighting with a rebel group against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Albanian-language media in Macedonia have reported.

He was reportedly killed in the Syrian province of Sham.