Kosovo Serb political party leader Oliver Ivanovic, jailed for nine years for war crimes, told Pristina’s appeals court that his trial was unlawful because he had already been investigated over the same offence.
Kosovo officials are dampening down expectations that the agreement on setting up an autonomous Association of Serbian municipalities will happen this year.
Lavdrim Muhaxheri, the Kosovo Albanian foreign fighter for ISIS operating in Syria and Iraq, re-appeared as a serious threat to Kosovo last week after the police there arrested 19 people suspected of planning terrorist attacks in Kosovo and Albania.
http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/lavdrim-muhaxheri-remains-a-threat-for-kosovo-11-17-2016
Kosovo’s appeals court jailed former senior Kosovo Liberation Army members Sylejman Selimi and Sami Lushtaku for war crimes against civilian prisoners during the 1998-99 conflict, their lawyers said.
Kosovo minister admits the recent arrest of more than dozen suspected terrorists was a serious matter, while an expert says the risk facing the country remains real.
The failed privatisation of Brezovica ski complex reveals the density of legal and political battles between Belgrade and Pristina over assets in Kosovo.
http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/kosovo-serbia-brezovica-case-conundrum-11-10-2016
While many Serbs, Macedonians and Montenegrins hailed the victory of Donald Trump, many Albanians and Bosniaks are lamenting the defeat of Hillary Clinton.
http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/trump-triumph-celebrated-and-mourned-in-balkans-11-09-2016
In its annual progress reports, the EU urged improvements in war crimes prosecutions in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Kosovo, and expressed concern about a slowdown in finding missing persons from the 1990s conflicts.
http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/eu-raps-balkan-states-over-war-crimes-progress-11-09-2016
An activist who died under unclear circumstances was seen off by thousands in the streets of Pristina.
http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/astrit-dehari-s-funeral-11-08-2016
Kosovo Albanians in the town of Kllokot/Klokot have taken down street signs with Serbian names that were installed in an Albanian-majority neighbourhood by the local Serb-led municipality.