Kosovo War

PRISTINA - KFOR Commander Major General Salvatore Farina said in Pristina on Monday that the number of patrols of that military mission and the Serbian Armed Forces in the ground security zone has been tripled since the killing of Serbian Gendarmerie member Stevan Sindjelic.

PRISTINA - Kosovo Albanian Mentor Zejnulahu was arrested at the airport in Tirana and was delivered to Kosovo on Friday.

He is the second resident of Kosovo arrested in the last two months on suspicion of being a jihadist, Pristina-based daily Lajm reports.

The police, according to Lajm, recorded his mobile phone conversations with jihadists in Syria.

UNSC backs war crimes court for Kosovo

NEW YORK -- A UN Security Council meeting to present UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s regular quarterly report on the situation in Kosovo was held late on Friday.

An agreement was reached that a special court for war crimes committed in KiM should be set up as soon as possible, Tanjug reported.

BELGRADE - Members of several associations of families of refugees and missing persons from the territory of former Yugoslavia marked the International Day of the Disappeared in Belgrade on Saturday, and repeated their requests concerning a closure for the fates of their loved ones and a fair prosecution of responsible individuals.

NEW YORK - On the International Day of the Disappeared, August 30, Amnesty International urges authorities in Serbia and Kosovo to carry out prompt, independent, effective and impartial investigations against those suspected of enforced disappearances and abductions committed before, during and after the international armed conflict in Kosovo in 1999.

NEW YORK – A UN Security Council meeting to present UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s ’regular quarterly report on the situation in Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) was held late on Friday in New York, and an agreement was reached that a special court for war crimes committed in KiM should be set up as soon as possible.

Around 400 Kosovo Albanians protesting about missing persons from the Kosovo war blocked roads in the village of Mushtisht, near Suhareka in western Kosovo, on Thursday, preventing Serbs from visiting a church.

UNSC meeting on Kosovo to be held on Friday

BELGRADE -- A UN Security Council meeting to present Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's regular quarterly report on the situation in Kosovo will be held in New York on Friday.

Serbia’s First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dačić will participate in the meeting.

BELGRADE - Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic denied on Thursday the allegations by EU and OSCE representatives that Serbia is not prosecuting high-ranking war crimes suspects.

Serbian Army, KFOR to step up patrols

BELGRADE -- The Serbian Army (VS) and the NATO-led force in Kosovo, KFOR, have announced that they will "urgently strengthen joint patrols."