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A Kosovo police officer crosses the bridge that connects north and south Mitrovica. The Ibar River serves as a natural divider in Mitrovica, where Serbs live on the northern side of the river and Albanians on the southern side.

There is one place where Serbs and Albanians coexist in Kosovo — in the country’s version of Costco

Culture

Ten years after Kosovo declared its independence from Serbia, Serbs and Albanians in Kosovo remain deeply divided — even over food.

The team behind "Kosovo if Trump Wins" (from left) Fitim Krasniqi, Argjend Haxhiu and Kushtrim Krasniqi. All three are devout Muslims. They are also pro-American like most people in Kosovo.

These Kosovo website creators treated Trump as a joke. Then he won.

Conflict
Portrait of man, outdoors

Muslim refugees of another era could put Missouri in play for Clinton

Election 2016
The Digital Diplomat

Kosovo can’t get recognition from the UN, but it can get it from Facebook

Global Politics
Fans and players of Serbia and Albania clash during their Euro 2016 Group I qualifying soccer match at the FK Partizan stadium in Belgrade on October 14, 2014.

Soccer goes to war during a match between Serbia and Albania

Sports
Nebojsa Jovic is urging Serbs to boycott the Kosovo municipal elections. He says the government in Belgrade is betraying Serbs in Kosovo by telling them to vote.

Serbs in Kosovo say Serbia is abandoning them. Again.

Conflict & Justice

Serbia withdrew its forces from Kosovo 13 years ago, but have supported a sort of Serbian parallel government in northern Kosovo. Now Serbia is telling Serbs there to vote in the Kosovo election, and many Serbs see that as a betrayal.

Because of disputed status, first Kosovar Olympian competing for Albania

Majlinda Kelmendi will be competing in the Olympics in London this year. She’s the first Kosovar to participate since the country declared independence back in 2008. But because Kosovo isn’t recognized by the United Nations, she must compete for Albania.

Kosovo trying to cultivate reputation as a burgeoning wine making location

Environment

Kosovo’s wine industry was facing ruin in the 1990s, when the former Yugoslavia fell apart, and it was plunged into war. Now there are signs that a once-thriving industry is getting back on its feet.

Judo Athlete Not Allowed to Represent Kosovo in Olympics

Global Politics

Kosovo’s contested statehood has made the International Olympic Committee not allow Majlinda Kelmendi to represent her country at London 2012.

Could Syria Take A Lesson From Bosnia?

Conflict & Justice

Christopher Hill, US ambassador to Iraq from 2009 to 2010, says while things were learned from the US intervention in the Balkans, the situation in Syria is quite different.