BELGRADE, Serbia – Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, accused architect of massacres making him one of the world’s top war crimes fugitives, was arrested Monday evening in a raid that ended a near 13-year manhunt, the country’s president and the U.N. tribunal said.Karadzic is the suspected mastermind of mass killings that the U.N. war crimes tri…
MITROVICA, Kosovo — One month after Kosovo declared independence, the unity of the former Serbian province is under serious threat as its Serb minority, actively backed by Serbia, tests how far the international community will go to ensure its current borders.Heavily armed Serb protesters fought international forces here Monday in a clash that left a Ukra…
PRISTINA, Kosovo – Hundreds of Serbs stormed a United Nations courthouse in northern Kosovo on Friday, took control of the site and hoisted a Serbian flag to replace the U.N.’s.By nightfall, the flag had come down but about 100 Kosovo Serbs remained in the yard of the building in the Serb-dominated city of Kosovska Mitrovica. More were locked inside the c…
Angry demonstrators protesting Kosovo’s independence from Serbia attacked the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade on Thursday, throwing rocks, breaking windows and setting fires. Serbian TV showed someone trying to set fire to the U.S. flag at the embassy, which was closed and unstaffed when the masked protesters attacked.Riot police fired tear gas at the rioters an…
PARIS; and LEPOSAVIC, KOSOVO – The independence party in Kosovo has gone slightly sideways. Days after fireworks over Pristina, Kosovo Serbs in the large northern enclave of Mitrovica have deepened the divide between themselves and the Albanian majority to the south, raising concerns of permanent partition. Well-organized Serb groups are allowing militant…
PRISTINA (AFP) – NATO-led peacekeepers in Kosovo blamed Serb leaders on Wednesday for arson attacks on border checkpoints, as Russia turned up the heat on the West for its “illegal” support of Kosovo independence.Germany and Austria joined the growing rank of nations recognising Kosovo, while Russia and Serbia stepped their diplomatic assault on the break…
PRISTINA, Serbia (AFP) – Political tensions rose Friday ahead of Kosovo’s imminent declaration of independence from Serbia, which up until the last minute is fighting what it calls a “serious threat.”ADVERTISEMENTKosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci refused to confirm that the declaration would come Sunday, but Serbia and the international community is step…
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — Slobodan Milosevic, the former Yugoslav leader who orchestrated the Balkan wars of the 1990s and was on trial for war crimes, was found dead in his prison cell near The Hague, the U.N. tribunal said Saturday.Milosevic, 64, apparently died of natural causes, a tribunal press officer said. He was found dead in his bed at the U.N. de…
The international police in Kosovo on Wednesday confirmed that organized armed gangs have been spotted in the western part of the province, as reported by the local media, but added that the gangs had no support from the local population. “These criminals have been active in the western part of Kosovo and to dramatise the situation they were dressed in bl…
A UN vehicle was destroyed by an explosion in southeast Kosovo late on Tuesday, police report.The explosion occurred shortly after midnight when a bomb beneath the UN car exploded in Kacanic, about sixty kilometres southeast of Pristina, said police spokesman Refki Morina.Morina said that the vehicle was parked outside the home of an international police…