Balkans

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
A bullet hole near Le Carillon restaurant, one of the attack sites in Paris.

Paris attackers’ AK-47s might be a legacy of the Balkan wars

Conflict
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.

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.

Serbian Band Repetitor Performs in Kosovo

Arts, Culture & Media

It may have been the first time a Serbian band performed in Pristina since the end of the Kosovo war in 1999.

Breaking with Serbia Tough for Kosovo Serbs

Global Politics

It isn’t easy becomming a member of the UN, even if most countries want you there. Just ask the breakaway state of Kosovo.

EU Forces Thaw in Kosovo’s Frozen Conflict

Global Politics

The European Union requires candidates for membership to have peaceful relations with their neighbors. Twelve years after the Kosovo War, the governments of Kosovo and Serbia are trying to normalize relations.