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FILE -Kosovo police officers guard road near the village of Banjska, northern Kosovo, Sept. 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Bojan Slavkovic, File)

Kosovo’s leader demands Serbia hand over gunmen who attacked police

By Florent Bajrami and Llazar Semini - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the Serbian Presidential Press Service, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, third right, welcomes Italian diplomat Alessandro Cattaneo, left, French President's Advisor Emmanuel Bonne, second left, European Union envoy Miroslav Lajcak, third left, US Deputy Assistant Secretary Gabriel Escobar, second right, and German Chancellor's Advisor Jens Plettner, right, in Belgrade, Serbia, Saturday, Oct. 21, 2023. The envoys of the European Union and the United States urged on Saturday Kosovo and Serbia to resume dialogue as the only way to de-escalate the soaring tension between the two nations. This is the first such visit since Sept. 24 when around 30 Serb gunmen crossed into northern Kosovo, killing a police officer and setting up barricades, before launching an hours-long gun battle with Kosovo police. (Serbian Presidential Press Service via AP)

European Union to press the leaders of Serbia and Kosovo to set decades of enmity behind them

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Kosovo police officers patrol an area near Banjska Monastery during a ongoing police operation in the village of Banjska on Monday, Sept. 25, 2023. Kosovo on Monday observed a day of mourning for the Kosovar Albanian police officer killed by Serb gunmen who then barricaded themselves in an Orthodox monastery in a siege that further raised tensions as the two wartime foes seek to normalize ties. In the north, where most of Kosovo’s ethnic Serb minority lives in four municipalities around Mitrovica, police were patrolling in search of the armed assailants after they left the monastery. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)

What is behind renewed tensions between Serbia and Kosovo?

By Dusan Stojanovic - Associated Press

From left, Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic, European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, EU Special Representative Miroslav Lajcak and Kosovo's Prime Minister Albin Kurti meet together in Brussels, Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023. Kosovo’s Prime Minister on Monday, Sept. 18, 2023, accused the European Union special envoy in the normalization talks with Serbia of not being “neutral and correct” and “coordinating” with Belgrade against Pristina. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)

Masked gunmen attack Kosovo police and kill 1 officer in an escalation of tensions with Serbia

By Zenel Zhinipotoku and Llazar Semini - Associated Press

Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic, left, walks with European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, right, prior to a meeting in Brussels, Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023. The leaders of Serbia and Kosovo are holding a fresh round of meetings on Thursday aimed at improving their strained relations as calls mount for a change in the Western diplomatic approach toward them amid concern that their tensions could spiral out of control. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Serbia and Kosovo leaders hold long-awaited face-to-face talks as the EU seeks to dial down tensions

By Lorne Cook - Associated Press

A man riding a bicycle past a mural with the writing "Kosovo" and the colours of the Serbian flag in Belgrade, Serbia, Thursday, July 13, 2023. Kosovo is a former province in Serbia whose 2008 declaration of independence Belgrade does not recognize. Most ethnic Serbs in Kosovo also have refused to acknowledge Kosovo's statehood that is backed by the United States and most EU nations but not Russia and China. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Brawl erupts in Kosovo parliament during prime minister’s speech on defusing tensions with Serbs

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U.S. soldiers, part of the peacekeeping mission in Kosovo KFOR guard a municipal building in the town of Leposavic, northern Kosovo, on May 29, 2023. The European Union has summoned the leaders of Serbia and Kosovo for emergency talks on Thursday, June 22, 2023, to try to bring an end to a series of violent clashes near their border that is fueling fears of a return to open conflict. (AP Photo/Marjan Vucetic, File)

EU summons Kosovo and Serbia leaders for emergency talks amid fears of a return to open conflict

By Lorne Cook - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the Serbian Ministry of Interior, a three Kosovo police officers captured by Serbian police officers lying face down on a field, on Wednesday, June 14, 2023. Serbian authorities said Wednesday they have captured three "fully armed" Kosovo police officers inside Serbia near their mutual border, while Kosovo police said they have likely been "kidnapped" on Kosovo territory as they patrolled the area. (Serbian Ministry of Interior via AP)

Kosovo tightens border security after saying 3 police officers ‘kidnapped’ by Serbian forces

By Sylejman Kllokoqi and Llazar Semini - Associated Press

Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti gestures during an interview with The Associated Press in Kosovo's capital Pristina on Thursday, June 8, 2023. Kurti on Thursday complained of bias to his country from the United States and the European Union and tolerance towards Serbia what he called as authoritarian regime. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)

Kosovo complains of biased western envoys in talks with its former foe Serbia

By Llazar Semini - Associated Press

Kosovo’s new parliament elects new government

By ZENEL ZHINIPOTOKU and LLAZAR SEMINI - Associated Press

Supporters of the left-wing Self-Determination Movement party react in Pristina, the capitol of Kosovo, on Sunday, Feb. 14, 2021. Kosovo’s voters defied freezing weather to vote in a parliamentary election Sunday to form a new government amid the coronavirus pandemic, an economic downturn and stalled negotiations with wartime foe Serbia. (AP Photo/ Visar Kryeziu)

Kosovo’s leftist opposition party gains landslide win

By LLAZAR SEMINI - Associated Press

Kosovo court bars ex-prime minister from running in election

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Supporters are greeted by acting prime minister Albin Kurti during a demonstration, outside the main government buildings, in Pristina, Kosovo, Thursday, May 28, 2020. A few thousands supporters of the governing left-wing Self-Determination Movement party, or Vetevendosje!, held a brief protest against the nomination of a new prime minister from the country’s president. On Thursday they surrounded the main institutions’ buildings respecting social distancing and also wearing masks and hand gloves. They are against the decree issued last month from President Hashim Thaci nominating Avdullah Hoti of the center-right Democratic League of Kosovo, or LDK, to replace Kurti. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)

Kosovo court upholds nomination of new prime minister

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Kosovo PM accuses US envoy involved in his govt’ overthrown

By LLAZAR SEMINI - Associated Press

Albin Kurti, 43, newly elected prime minister of Kosovo waves after new government was elected in capital Pristina on Monday, Feb. 3, 2020. Kosovo's parliament convened on Monday to vote in a new prime minister after four months of talks between the country's two main parties. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)

Kosovo offers to ease tariff on neighboring Serbia’s goods

By SYLEJMAN KLLOKOQI AND LLAZAR SEMINI - Associated Press

Kosovo president nominates Albin Kurti as prime minister

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