On the ninth anniversary of the riots, Serbia’s premier asked the international community to punish the instigators and help Serbs who fled Kosovo to return to their homes.
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The Kosovo authorities said a peace treaty would ease the process of reconciliation but would also ensure that Serbia pays compensation for the late 1990s war.
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Some Kosovo MPs called for a parliamentary commission to investigate the alleged post-war revenge killings of an entire family in the high-profile ‘Kiqina’ case.
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Former senior Serbian interior ministry official Sreten Lukic asked the Hague Tribunal to quash his 22-year sentence for persecuting and killing Albanians in Kosovo.
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Relatives of people who disappeared during wartime boycotted a session of Kosovo’s missing persons commission after not being allowed to meet EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton.
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Macedonia’s justice ministry has yet to issue an extradition request for two recently-detained ethnic Albanians wanted for trial over high-profile killings near Skopje.
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At his Hague Tribunal appeal, ex-Yugoslav Army commander Vladimir Lazarevic said he was not responsible for the deportation of Albanians from Kosovo in 1999.
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At their Hague Tribunal appeal, ex-Yugoslav Army commander Nebojsa Pavkovic and ex-Yugoslav deputy prime minister Nikola Sainovic said they weren’t guilty of repressing Kosovo Albanians.
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A Pristina court has released former Kosovo Liberation Army commander Fatmir Limaj and put him under house arrest before his trial on war crimes changes.
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Riot police maintained a high-profile presence as hundreds of demonstrators staged a rally against the handover of land to a Serbian Orthodox monastery in Decan/Decani.
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Pristina staged a lavish ceremony to mark the 15th anniversary of the killings of Kosovo Liberation Army commander Adem Jashari and his family.
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Kosovo police detained the remaining two ethnic Albanian suspects wanted for killing five Macedonians in a politically-charged case that raised ethnic tensions.
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The prosecution said fresh charges should be brought because "appalling" new evidence had emerged during the trial for alleged illicit kidney-trading at a Kosovo clinic.
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The retrial of three ex-Kosovo Liberation Army commanders for jailing, torturing and killing Albanian civilians will begin next month, a Pristina court has decided.
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A handwriting expert told the high-profile Kosovo organ-trafficking trial that scientific analysis proved that a Pristina clinic owner and his son had agreed illicit kidney operations.
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Hashim Thaci 'From 'Snake' to Prime Minister
Thaci, born in 1968, joined the Albanian independence cause as a student, becoming one of the leaders of the protest movement in the early 1990s. As the Serbian crackdown intensified, he left for Switzerland, studying history and international relations in Zurich.