The office of the State Chief Prosecutor together with Kosovo Police gave a press conference today about the arrest of 40 persons suspected of participating in fighting in Syria and Iraq alongside terrorist organizations ISIS and Al-Nusra.

Prosecution and police representatives said the arrests were made after a two-year investigation. The police operation was carried out without any incident, except in two cases where family members of the suspects tried to prevent police from making the arrests. Most families however welcomed the police operation.

Igballe Rogova, executive director of the Kosova Women’s Network (KWN), has been invited to become a member of the High Level Expert Advisory Group for the Global Study on the 15-year implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1325.

The news was announced in a press release issued by KWN which says that the study is in line with Security Council Resolution 2122 which calls for the UN Secretary-General to undertake a high-level review of women, peace and security to be conducted in October 2015.

Acting Prime Minister, Hashim Thaci, wrote in a Facebook post that Kosovo will not be a safe haven for radicals or extremists who want to change clear Euro-Atlantic aspirations of the society.

Excavations in search of mortal remains have recommenced at the mass grave in Rudnica, Serbia.

Head of the Kosovo Government’s Commission for Missing Persons, Prenk Gjetaj, confirmed the news to KTV. According to Gjetaj, the Kosovo side is prepared and ready to work on determining the fate of the missing persons.

The decision to resume excavations at the site came after an agreement was reached last week between the Pristina and Belgrade teams.

The paper runs an opinion piece by Ian Buruma, Professor of Democracy, Human Rights, and Journalism at Bard College, and the author of Year Zero: A History of 1945.

The time before last that Israel was fighting a war in Gaza, in 2009, Avigdor Lieberman, the foreign minister at the time, compared the conflict to America’s war with Japan. There was no need for a costly ground invasion; the enemy could be bombed into submission from the air.

Brussels-based correspondent Augustin Palokaj writes that SITF chief prosecutor Clint Williamson was clear in his claims that there is sufficient evidence to file indictments against former KLA leaders on several kinds of crimes. “But he also troubled a good share of Western diplomats by repeating that he ‘believes there were also cases of organ harvesting’ even though he admitted that there is not enough evidence that would stand in a judicial process.

Deputy Foreign Minister, Petrit Selimi, considers that the end of war crimes investigations in Kosovo will help in improving Kosovo’s international image. Speaking about Special Investigative Task Force (SITF) report, Selimi said that any report that mentions war crimes makes Kosovo return to the war period in the eyes of the world. He said by demonstrating seriousness as a country towards this report and the trials that will follow, Kosovo will be able to strengthen its image in the world.

Municipality of Shterpce/Strpce will not provide assistance to Serb displaced persons who came from other communities after the conflict and who have sold their property, said Mayor Bratislav Nikolic who added that he categorically opposes giving assistance to those who bought property in Serbia.

Due to the lack of the constitution of the Assembly and creation of the government, the process of the establishment of the Special Court which will deal with the alleged war crimes mentioned in the report of the US prosecutor, Clint Williamson, will be delayed.

A day after the publication of the main findings from the three-year investigation, EU Special Investigative Task Force (SITF) lead prosecutor Clint Williamson said that if the special court were in place, he would be ready to immediately file indictments against the most senior figures of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA).

Even though he hesitates to mention the names of those that are expected to be indicted, he says that the Special Task Force has the names.