Kosovo police detained five youths on suspicion of vandalising Serbian Orthodox graves in the town of Vitia/Vitina - four of them under the age of 18.
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Yugoslav Army general Dragoljub Ojdanic's admission that he committed war crimes against Kosovo Albanians in the 1990s is a symbolic step forward for Serbia, experts say.
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Yugoslav Army general Dragoljub Ojdanic confessed that he committed war crimes against Kosovo Albanians in the late 1990s and withdrew his appeal against his Hague conviction.
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Pristina said it would repair more than 60 Serbian memorials vandalised in apparent retaliation for Belgrade’s removal of an Albanian monument.
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Belgrade's ally Moscow said the EU had failed to push forward its investigation into alleged organ trafficking by Kosovo fighters during the late 1990s conflict.
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Police stepped up security near Serbian monuments and graves after several attacks amid heightened tensions over Belgrade's removal of an Albanian memorial.
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Former Kosovo Liberation Army members have expressed concerns about a government programme to officially verify how many fought in the 1990s conflict.
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Belgrade warned it could deploy police to help remove the memorial to ethnic Albanian fighters in south Serbia but local authorities vowed to legally resist.
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Police have detained a man suspected of destroying Serbian Orthodox graves in Kosovo Polje but insisted that he wasn’t motivated by ethnic hatred.
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The Hague Tribunal has granted early releases to a Kosovo prison guard and a Bosnian Serb jailed in separate cases for crimes in wartime detention centres.
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There has been no appeal against the decision to quash war crimes charges against former Kosovo Liberation Army commander Ramush Haradinaj.
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Kosovo has agreed to do more to ensure witnesses’ safety after repeated international calls for better protection.
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A Kosovo campaign group has urged the authorities not to play ethnic politics while investigating wartime missing persons cases.
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Ceremonies to mark Orthodox Christmas at churches and monasteries in Kosovo were shadowed by detentions and protests.
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A Swedish appeal court on Wednesday acquitted a former Serbian police officer convicted in January of war crimes in the Kosovo village of Cuska in 1999.
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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.