Nearly three decades after the fighting ended, Kosovo has compiled a list of 13,190 dead and missing from the 1998-99 war, though it does not yet distinguish between civilians and combatants or specify ethnicity.
A retrial in Kosovo has confirmed the ten-year sentence for an ethnic Gorani former police officer, who was convicted of assaulting ethnic Albanian prisoners during the Kosovo war, one of whom died.
The Accursed Mountains region, bordering Kosovo and Montenegro, continues to experience disrupted movement of people and goods, a legacy of the 1990s turbulence that has yet to be fully resolved.
The European Union has expressed concern regarding the decision by the Kosovo Prosecutorial Council to accept the resignations of Serb judges, prosecutors, and other officials.
A number of Kosovo Serb judges and prosecutors who resigned en masse from state bodies in 2022 are now reportedly seeking to return to their former positions.
The Kosovo government plans to reform higher educational institutions that are struggling with declining enrollment, staff shortages, and a failure to meet the standards required for proper universities.
The Special Prosecution of Kosovo has confirmed an exhumation operation in Mala Kaludra near Zubin Potok in northern Kosovo.
A former police officer has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after being found guilty of war crimes in a retrial. Separately, two women have sued a former Regina police officer for using internal records to pursue relationships with them.
The EU and OSCE missions have expressed regret over Kosovo's bulldozing of allegedly illegally-built Serb villas near an important lake, urging authorities to respect due process and property rights for all communities.
The Kosovo Prosecutorial Council dismissed requests from several Serb prosecutors who had joined a mass boycott of Kosovo institutions in 2022, denying their return to former posts.
Coalition talks in Kosovo have been suspended due to an internal crisis within the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), forcing its embattled leader to break off negotiations with Albin Kurti’s Vetevendosje to form a governing coalition.
Former guerrilla and politician Sami Lushtaku has been cleared of charges of obstructing justice and intimidating witnesses in his war crimes trial, for which he was previously acquitted in 2017.
Volker Turk, the UN human rights chief, is facing opposition in a vote to extend his term for another four years. He is seeking a second term amidst pushback.
There is a notable silence surrounding the wartime rape of ethnic minority women during the Kosovo war. Victims feel overlooked, with little public acknowledgment or discussion of their experiences.
A shooting incident near a primary school in Laplje Selo, Kosovo, caused panic among residents, including children who witnessed the event. Two individuals have been detained in connection with the incident.
A monitoring report by BIRN Kosovo and Internews Kosova claims that the process of appointing Zejnullah Gashi as Chief State Prosecutor lacked vital transparency and integrity tests.