WASHINGTON -- The United States thinks a number of European countries, Serbia among them, are "in the line of fire" when it comes to relations between Washington and Moscow.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was appearing before a U.S. Senate subcommittee when he was asked about "the growing influence of Russia in Europe."

In this context, besides Serbia, Kerry also mentioned "Kosovo, Montenegro, Macedonia, and others, Georgia, Moldova, Pridnestrovie," RIA Novosti reported.

Kosovo Minister of Internal Affairs Skender Hyseni, on Monday traveled for a several-days official visit to the United States of America. Hyseni will attend the White House Summit on Countering Violent Extremism. The purpose of the Summit, which brings together key stakeholders from around the world, is developing an action agenda to address violent extremism. During his stay in Washington, Hyseni will also have separate series of meetings at the US State Department, the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

The United States Deputy Assistant Secretary, Hoyt Yee, told Voice of America, that Kosovo needs to be more effective in the fight against organized crime and corruption, in order to facilitate economic development that would prevent irregular migration. Yee also said that special court for war crimes would help Kosovo to gain a better reputation in the international community.

The deputy head of the Austrian Freedom Party (FPO), Johann Gudenus said that Kosovo is not a war affected region, and yet thousands of people are in front of the borders of Austria.

WASHINGTON - Head of the Serbian People's Party (SNP), which has no seats in the parliament, Nenad Popovic has met in Washington with head of US State Department office for Southern and Central Europe Steven Banks.

Popovic stated at the meeting that Serbia had invested over USD 17 billion in its southern province of Kosovo in the past 50 years, adding that property ownership was a universal and undisputed right in every civilised country, according to a statement from the SNP.

Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic, who will attend the traditional national prayer breakfast in Washington on Thursday, said this morning that he had very good meetings with U.S. administration officials at the U.S. Congress and State Department and that they had stressed their support for reforms and objectives pursued by the Serbian government. “The United States supports the reforms in Serbia.

The Association of Djakovica citizens has asked the US Ambassador in Pristina Tracy Jacobson, representatives of KFOR, UNMIK and EULEX, and non-governmental organizations to enable them to visit Serbian churches in this town in southwestern Kosovo. A bus carrying 40 displaced Serbs from that town was stoned in front of the Church of the Assumption of the Holy Virgin in Djakovica on Christmas Eve.

Kosovo continues to address the growing and complex challenges of terrorism emanating from Islamic and other forms of extremism, and continues to seek assistance from US and European partners to carry out the fight, experts said.

BRUSSELS – The EU named a new prosecutor on Thursday to investigate possible crimes against humanity, including murder and organ trafficking, by several leaders of Kosovo’s 1990s guerrilla army, some of them now senior officials.

Lawyer David Schwendiman succeeds fellow U.S. national, Clint Williamson, a diplomat and prosecutor who headed the Special Investigative Task Force into events after Kosovo’s 1998-1999 war.

WASHINGTON -- U.S. State Department Office for South Central European Affairs Director Thomas Yazdgerdi says his country is "fully engaged in the Balkans."

This especially applies to "resolving the remaining key issues," he said.

Yazdgerdi, who was recently appointed to the job, told Voice of America that Washington supports the future of the entire region "in the framework of the Euro-Atlantic community."