Tag: Kosovo

U.S. Ambassador to Kosovo, Jeff Hovenier, delivered blistering remarks today in response to the riots that injured more than thirty NATO peacekeepers yesterday in Northern Kosovo. The first consequence was the elimination of Kosovo from DEFENDER 23 which is a U.S. Army Europe and Africa led exercise focused on the strategic...

As this publication reported on 26 May 23, Serbian President Vucic deployed forces to the Kosovo border in the face of political unrest as ethnic Albanian mayors took office in several ethnic Serbian towns after previous mass resignations of Serbian politicians and police earlier this year. The snap April elections...

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has placed the country’s military on full combat readiness alert and ordered forces to be placed along the border with Kosovo. This comes as Kosovar police and ethnic-Serbs clashed in ethnic-Serba majority regions of northern Kosovo over the installment of an ethnic-Albanian mayor in the...

The former Serbian province of Kosovo has long been a source of tension in European diplomacy. When it unilaterally declared independence from Serbia in 2008, it did so in violation of Serbian constitutional law, but several other nations, including the United States, have acknowledged the decision. In response to the...

Serbia has formally made a request to NATO’s Kosovo Force (KFOR) that its security forces be deployed to Kosovo amid a drastic increase of political and ethnic tensions. Speaking with Serbian state media, President Aleksandar Vucic said that a request to deploy up to 1,000 troops has been made, in...

Tensions continue to mount between Kosovo and Serbia, pushing the two countries closer to a potential conflict. On Thursday, Albanian-Kosovar officials deployed special police forces to Serb-majority municipalities in northern Kosovo “to provide security for all citizens” as snap elections are set to begin following the mass resignation of ethnic-Serb...