Anti-government protesters in Kosovo's capital Pristina have clashed with police at a demonstration against an agreement with the Serb minority.

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Pristina may host one of the world's youngest national assemblies - Kosovo unilaterally declared its independence in 2008 - but in recent weeks it has been a global leader in parliamentary dysfunction.

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Police in Kosovo have tried to arrest opposition MP Albin Kurti, who has led a series of protests in parliament against agreements made with Serbia.

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The global Muslim community is suffering a deep crisis. The failure of the "Arab Spring" led, most prominently, to horrendous bloodletting in Syria. In this carnage, both the Damascus dictatorship of Bashar Al-Assad, which is supported by the Iranian regime, and the ultra-Wahhabi "Islamic State" that opposes the civil resistance to Bashar, are guilty.

5 November 2014 Last updated at 12:38 GMT

The EU says an independent legal expert will investigate alleged corruption in the EU's rule of law mission in Kosovo.

The mission, called Eulex, is mired in allegations that some of its officials took bribes in return for dropping three cases involving organised crime.

A British prosecutor at Eulex, Maria Bamieh, was suspended after some secret Eulex documents were leaked.

EU foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini will appoint an independent legal expert to probe Eulex.

16 October 2014 Last updated at 11:08 GMT

An eight-year-old boy from Kosovo has been reunited with his mother after his jihadist father kept him for five months in Syria.

Kosovo's Prime Minister, Hashim Thaci, said the country's intelligence agency had found and rescued Erion Abazi with help from Turkish intelligence.

It was a "complicated and dangerous" operation, which followed careful analysis, Mr Thaci said in a statement.

About 200 Kosovans are believed to be with Islamist groups in Iraq and Syria.

7 October 2014 Last updated at 23:27 GMT

By Linda Pressly BBC World Service, Kosovo

In Kosovo it used to be the case that families were culturally Muslim, but rarely devout believers. Recently though some young people have become radicalised. Up to 200 are thought to be fighting in Syria and Iraq causing heartbreak for those left behind.

"In these pictures of him as a little boy, his eyes are so innocent."

Arieta is leafing through a pile of photos of her younger brother, Blerim Heta. She does this every day, and cries a little.

Among them are several imams, including the head of Pristina's Grand Mosque, Shefqet Krasniqi, local reports say.

Some 200 Kosovo Albanians have gone to fight in Syria and several have died.

IS is thought to have attracted hundreds of European recruits in its campaign to set up a "caliphate" in broad swathes of Syria and Iraq.

Kosovo police did not name those arrested, publishing only their initials, but said the operation had been carried out following threats and due to the importance of national security.

An EU war crimes prosecutor says that some former leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) should face charges of crimes against humanity.

Clint Williamson has spent three years investigating allegations of atrocities in the late 1990s, when Kosovo Albanian guerrillas were fighting Serb forces.

He said elements in the KLA murdered ethnic Serbs and other minorities.

There was also evidence of human organ harvesting and trafficking on a very limited scale, he said.