With midterms approaching and polls looking bad, the US administration seems to be mulling Balkan-style election giveaways – while also giving democratic backsliders and war crimes deniers a free pass.

Two Kosovo Serbs pleaded guilty to violating the constitutional order by participating in setting up roadblocks and barricades in the Serb-majority north of the country during protests in 2022.

As NATO-led KFOR mission starts winding down presence on bridge in divided Mitrovica, Kosovo's main Serb party warns of potential problems at 'site of serious conflicts'.

In charging six Kosovo Serbs over roadblocks erected in 2022, prosecutors claim to have exposed the coordination, ‘coercion and intimidation’ behind protests and violence in northern Kosovo portrayed by Serbia as ‘spontaneous’, grassroots expressions of fear and resistance.

The NATO peacekeeping mission will reduce troop numbers as a result of improved security conditions in Kosovo’s north - after sending more soldiers in 2023 amid repeated unrest in Serb-majority areas.

Slobodan Radenkovic was jailed for two years for taking part in attacks on NATO peacekeeping troops in the north of Kosovo in May 2023 that left over 90 soldiers injured.