A Serbian court has for the first time ordered the state to pay compensation to families of Kosovo war crime victims, killed by a special police unit in 1990s war.

https://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/World/2016/Apr-08/346422-serbia-to-compensate-kosovo-war-crime-victims-families.ashx

As he gets ready to take on the post of Kosovo president, Hashim Thaci is facing mounting speculation of whether he could be summoned to the court due to open in The Hague this year, trying crimes allegedly committed by senior KLA members, Koha writes quoting an AFP report. The president-elect has expressed his “full support” for the new war crimes court, despite a question mark hanging over whether he himself will be indicted.

Pristina (AFP) - Kosovo's president-elect has pledged to "fully support" a new war crimes court prosecuting members of the guerrilla group he once led -- despite a question mark hanging over whether he himself will be indicted.

Hashim Thaci, elected by parliament in February as the next head of state, made his name as political leader of the ethnic Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), which fought against Serbia for independence in the late 1990s.

Prosecutors in Kosovo have pressed terror charges against three alleged Islamic State group supporters, including two who went to the Syrian frontline to wage jihad, an official said Thursday.

The pair allegedly fought with the extremist group in Syria last year while the third "was propagating and recruiting people through Facebook to join IS," Liridona Kozmaqi, spokeswoman of the chief prosecutor's office, told AFP.

http://www.globalpost.com/article/6741415/2016/03/03/kosovo-charges-three-alleged-islamic-state-supporters

Kosovo's Foreign Minister and former Premier Hashim Thaci says he received a death threat purportedly from the leader of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) organisation over his opposition to the extremist group.

"It was a death threat against me and my family," Mr Thaci told AFP in an interview on Wednesday.

Kosovo's opposition presented a petition to the president Monday with more than 200,000 signatures against EU-brokered agreements with Serbia, which are at the centre of a deepening political crisis.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/kosovo-opposition-presents-petition-200-000-names-against-204228532.html

The head of Serbia's Orthodox Church Tuesday warned of using "force" if Kosovo were accepted as a member of the UN cultural agency UNESCO and holy sites there were recognised as belonging to the breakaway territory.

http://news.yahoo.com/serbian-church-leader-threatens-force-kosovo-joins-un-223140709.html

The European Union said it will sign next Tuesday a long-awaited accord with Kosovo on closer ties which could open the way to membership for the small Balkan country.

http://www.afp.com/en/news/eu-kosovo-sign-association-accord-next-week

Police in Kosovo fired tear gas Monday on dozens of protesters who threw stones and smashed windows in protest after a leading opposition MP was taken in for questioning.

www.afp.com/en/news/tear-gas-and-stone-throwing-police-question-kosovo-mp

They don't come from a war zone, they're not fleeing persecution, and the EU doesn't want them. But for thousands of Kosovans fleeing unemployment and poverty, northern Europe is the only place to go.

http://www.afp.com/en/news/eu-shuts-door-kosovans-dreaming-new-life