Kosovo

"Thanks to the wisdom and the desire to avoid conflicts and preserve peace Serbia managed to do that," PM Aleksandar Vucic said on Sunday evening in Belgrade.

Kosovo’s Special Prosecution has filed an indictment against former Kosovo Liberation Army guerrilla Remiz Shala, accusing him of abducting an ethnic Albanian civilian suspected of collaborating with Serbia.

BELGRADE - Serbia demands an urgent extradition of Ramus Haradinaj, the head of the Office for Kosovo-Metohija, Marko Djuric, said Friday after a government session on the matter.

Serbia will continue to prosecute all those accused or indicted of war crimes, regardless of their ethnicity, the government concluded at the session.

A promotional ride was organized on Saturday in a new Russian-manufactured train. The train’s interior was decorated with the imagery of the Serb cultural and spiritual heritage located in Kosovo and Metohija.

BELGRADE - Hashim Thaci says he believes Washington will continue its strong support for Kosovo under the incoming Trump administration, VOA reports.

BELGRADE - The first passenger train from the Serbian capital of Belgrade to Kosovo was stopped on Saturday over a security threat, local media reported.

The train left Belgrade for Mitrovica was stopped in the city of Raska near the administrative border with Kosovo, the Beta news agency reported.

Tensions grew between Serbia and Kosovo on Saturday after Belgrade ordered that a train be halted before entering the Kosovar territory due to reports of a planned attack.

The Belgrade-Kosovska Mitrovica train service was running for the first time since the 1999 NATO bombings.

COLMAR - Former "Kosovo Liberation Army" leader Ramus Haradinaj was Thursday released from custody in France pending a court decision on a request to extradite him to Serbia.

Haradinaj has no permission to leave France.

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Following an emergency session of Serbia's Council for National Security, Serbian Prime Minister Aleksander Vucic on Saturday accused Kosovo of sending special forces to attack the first train in 18 years from Belgrade to the northern, Serb-run part of the Kosovo town of Mitrovica.

BELGRADE - Two Albanians have been recorded on video setting a Serbian flag on fire in Geneva, Switzerland, in protest over the arrest of Ramush Haradinaj.

Haradinaj, a former KLA leader and Kosovo prime minister, was arrested in France last week on a Serbian war crimes warrant.