Islamic State recruiting in region, Serbian Interior Minister warns (TV N1, FoNet)
The Western Balkans region has become a recruiting ground for the Islamic State, Serbian Internal Affairs Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic told a conference on terrorism in Russia yesterday, TV N1 reported. A press release from the Serbian Internal Affairs Ministry said that Stefanovic told the conference that most of the combatants the Islamic State recruited were […]
Read More →Parents of Albanian ISIS ‘Martyrs’ Abandoned to Grief (Balkan Insight)
Their sons went to fight for ISIS in Syria or Iraq, and some even had children in the conflict zone, then they were killed, leaving their impoverished relatives in Kosovo, Albania and Macedonia to suffer. Selim Demolli gripped the table with his hands, and his lip trembled with anger as he spoke. The previous day […]
Read More →Ministry of Finance to support financially Global Coalition against ISIS (RTK)
Kosovo’s Finance Minister, Bedri Hamza, signed today on behalf of the government of Kosovo a Memorandum of Understanding together with the U.S. Ambassador to Kosovo, Greg Delawie, with which Kosovo will support financially the global coalition against ISIS. “Except for the fact that this memorandum implements the decision of the government of the Republic of […]
Read More →Kosovo pledges funds to fight ISIS (Koha)
The government of Kosovo in its routine meeting today decided to allocate USD 100,000 in support of the coalition against the so-called Islamic state group, ISIS.
Read More →ISIS Appeal Remains Challenge For Kosovo, Report Warns (Balkan Insight)
New report by the Kosovar Center for Security Studies warns that Islamic State will remain a challenge for Kosovo until its institutions mount a comprehensive, multifaceted campaign to combat its message and ‘narrative’. A new report, “The Islamic State Narrative in Kosovo Deconstructed One Story at a Time”, by the Kosovar Center for Security Studies, […]
Read More →Balkan Jihadis Return, Disillusioned with ISIS “Caliphate” (Balkan Insight)
Jovo Martinovic BIRN Podgorica Some jihadis from the Balkans who travelled to the Syrian conflict zone to support Islamic State told BIRN that they returned home because they became disenchanted with the brutality, poverty and oppression. Hilmi, an ethnic Bosniak, travelled to Syria hoping that life in Islamic State’s‘caliphate would be an ideal religious environment […]
Read More →“Russians with an aggressive campaign against Kosovo” (Klan Kosova)
The most distinguished fighter from Kosovo in the Islamic state was Lundrim Muhaxheri. However, after his death, Russian media are writing about a Kosovo women assessing her to be just as dangerous as her compatriot. Russian agency Sputnik reported about her citing allegedly a report of the Kosovo Center for Security Studies. However, director of […]
Read More →UNMIK Headlines 8 June
No one to “discipline” Serbian List (Koha Ditore)
Police step up presence in the north of Kosovo (Koha Ditore)
Serwer: Make haste with demarcation or risk having the door closed (Zeri)
ISIS fighter from Kosovo, Muhaxheri, reported killed (Gazeta Metro)
Police claim “ISIS” threat to University of Pristina not credible (Klan Kosova/Telegrafi)
The University of Pristina had to change the location of today’s ceremony to mark the 47th anniversary of its establishment due to threats it received on behalf of the terror group ISIS. Police forces were seen at the ceremony monitoring the situation. According to reports, University of Pristina received a letter saying it would be […]
Read More →Headlines 8 December
• Partition of Mitrovica fortified (Koha Ditore)
• EU to assess if Mitrovica wall is in accordance with agreement (lajmi.net)
• Rakic: Wall will not be demolished (Zeri)
• KDI: Construction of the wall creates insecurity and fear (Koha Ditore)
• Assembly commission recommends session on Dehari (Kosova Sot)
• O’Connell: I regret that there are still criminals in politics (Telegrafi/RTK)
• NISMA and AKR sign coalition deal in Drenas/Glogovac (Bota Sot)
• Haradinaj: PM Mustafa tried to smuggle demarcation at the Assembly (RTK)
• Eight Kosovo Albanians held on terror charges in Belgium (Telegrafi)
Headlines 18 November
• No Association/Community without dissolution of parallel structures (Zeri)
• Havolli: No visa liberalisation without demarcation (Bota Sot)
• A march for Astrit Dehari today in Pristina (RTK)
• Shala: The state responsible for Dehari’s death (Epoka e Re)
• Lushtaku and 23 others indicted on organised crime charges (Koha Ditore)
• Protests in Skenderaj/Srbica against sentencing of KLA members (Epoka)
• AAK will not attend border demarcation meetings anymore (Koha)
• O‘Connell: Corruption is a problem for Kosovo (lajmi.net)
• Engel praises Kosovo authorities for stopping terrorist attack (RTKLive)
Headlines 11 October
• Thaci calls for resolution of crimes during and after the war (media)
• Corruption and demarcation keeping visa liberalisation pending (dailies)
• Simic: Trepca issue to be solved through negotiations (Zeri/RFE)
• Task force established for Nehat Thaci’s release (Zeri)
• Kosovo never sent list of missing persons to the EU (media)
• Indictment on wiretapped conversations, imminent (Kosova Sot)
• Kosovo to have three-member delegation at PACE (Koha)
• Former ISIS fighter seeks funds to fight extremism (Zeri)
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