The Latest Breaking News from Albin Kurti

Serb-majority municipalities in Kosovo boycott vote to remove Albanian mayors, impacting EU negotiations and facing tensions with Serbia.

Long lines snaked around banks in northern Kosovo on Wednesday, as ethnic Serbs waited to receive salaries and pensions in limited tranches following a government regulation targeting Serbia's dinar currency.

Kosovo’s prime minister is claiming that a criminal gang from northern Serbia with alleged links to the Belgrade government was behind a September attack in Kosovo that killed a police officer and involved a daylong gunbattle with Kosovo police that left three gunmen dead

The envoys of the European Union and the United States are urging Kosovo and Serbia to resume their dialogue on normalizing relations before the bitter tensions between the two nations result in more violence

Kosovo’s prime minister, Albin Kurti, and Serbia’s president, Aleksandar Vučić, are scheduled to meet this weekend for the first time since Nato decided to send about 600 more peacekeeping troops into the Balkans early in October to mitigate some of the region’s growing tensions.

As violence flares, Washington has shown it has influence, while Brussels’s policies have shown weakness.

Kosovo’s prime minister has asked NATO-led peacekeepers to increase their presence on the northern border with Serbia, saying the area is the entry point for illegal weapons and threats to stability

An escalation into a conflict in the Western Balkans was averted but the likelihood of future flare-ups remains high.

Swift western pressure on Serbia to step back from conflict does not resolve the chronic problems of Kosovo’s nationhood