Yugoslav Wars
Nora Gjakova of Kosovo, top, reacts as she competes with Tsukasa Yoshida of Japan in their women's -57kg semifinal judo match, at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, Monday, July 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
Judoka Nora Gjakova wins gold on mourning day for Kosovo

Jul. 26, 2021 07:29 AM EDT

Funa Tonaki, top, of Japan, reacts after losing to Distria Krasniqi, of Kosovo, in their women's 48-kg judo gold medal match at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Saturday, July 24, 2021, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Kosovo hails Krasniqi's gold medal in judo at Tokyo Games

Zenel Zhinipotoku And Llazar Semini Jul. 24, 2021 08:58 AM EDT

International official: Bosnian Serbs seek to split country

By Edith M. Lederer May. 04, 2021 08:58 PM EDT
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The top international official in Bosnia warned Tuesday that ethnic Serb leaders are making a concerted effort to split the country, or...

Vendor Ibrahim Gashi, arranges weekly and monthly magazines at his newspaper kiosk were he has been selling newspapers downtown for 35 consecutive years except one, in the capital Pristina, Thursday, April 29, 2021. The printing presses stopped running at the start of the pandemic in Kosovo. The country's five dailies all stopped printing physical newspapers and turned into online media portals. But these do not reach all the people as before, and many fear they prioritise speed over accuracy. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)
Pandemic leaves Kosovo without printed daily newspapers

By Florent Bajrami And Llazar Semini May. 03, 2021 06:32 AM EDT

Russia tries to ban Kosovo flag at UN -- unsuccessfully

By Edith M. Lederer Apr. 13, 2021 06:51 PM EDT
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia tried for the first time Tuesday to prevent Kosovo’s representative from speaking at the U.N. Security Council with the country’s...

Migrants, some wearing masks for protection aganst the COVID-19 infection, speak outside the Miral camp, in Velika Kladusa, Bosnia, Wednesday, April 7, 2021. Bosnia is seeing a rise in coronavirus infections among migrants and refugees living in its camps, as it struggles to cope with one of the Balkans' highest COVID-19 death and infection rates among the general population.(AP Photo/Davor Midzic)
Struggling Bosnia sees infection surge in migrants, refugees

Apr. 08, 2021 05:15 AM EDT

FILE - In this Sunday, Feb. 14, 2021 file photo, Albin Kurti leader of Vetevendosje (Self-Determination) speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in capital Pristina, Kosovo. Kosovo’s newly-elected parliament has approved the new government challenged by the management of the virus pandemic following recent surging numbers. In an extraordinary session after the first one held earlier Monday, March 22, 2021 the parliament voted 67 in favor and 30 against the new Cabinet presented by Prime Minister Albin Kurti. (AP Photo/ Visar Kryeziu, file)
Kosovo’s new parliament elects new government

By Zenel Zhinipotoku And Llazar Semini Mar. 22, 2021 08:22 AM EDT

Doctors from the Amerikan Hastanesi hospital in Istanbul and local medical staff taking care for patients in the COVID-19 ward at a the General Hospital in the capital Sarajevo, Bosnia, Thursday, March 18, 2021. As Bosnia faces soaring coronavirus infections and rapidly-filling hospitals, two doctors from Turkey have arrived in Sarajevo to help and offer their insight in the treatment of COVID-19. Bosnia is seeing a huge rise in infections and hospitalizations after a period of relaxed measures and the winter season that saw ski resorts staying open unlike in most of Europe. (AP Photo)
As infections rise, Sarajevo's hospitals feel the pressure

By Eldar Emric Mar. 18, 2021 01:56 PM EDT

Kosovo’s new parliament convenes next week to nominate PM

Mar. 15, 2021 05:26 PM EDT
PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo’s new parliament holds its first session next week to discuss and likely nominate the new prime minister. ...

Election commission employees count casted ballots after the polls closed in parliamentary elections in capital Pristina, Kosovo on Sunday, Feb. 14, 2021. Kosovo’s voters defied freezing weather to vote in an early parliamentary election to form a new government amid the coronavirus pandemic, an economic downturn and stalled negotiations with wartime foe Serbia. (AP Photo/ Visar Kryeziu)
Left-wing party wins Kosovo poll, needs ally to form cabinet

By Zenel Zhinipotoku And Llazar Semini Mar. 04, 2021 07:57 AM EST

In this photo provided by the Serbian Presidential Press Service, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, left, and Muslim member of the tripartite Presidency of Bosnia Sefik Dzaferovic exchange fist bumps at Sarajevo Airport, Bosnia, Tuesday, March 2, 2021. Bosnia on Tuesday received 10,000 vaccines from neighboring Serbia amid a dispute with the international COVAX mechanism over a delay in planned shipments. Serbia's populist President Aleksandar Vucic flew to the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo to deliver the Astra-Zeneca vaccines to the authorities there. (Serbian Presidential Press Service via AP)
Bosnia receives jabs from Serbia amid COVAX dispute

By Eldar Emric Mar. 02, 2021 09:12 AM EST

Serbian Orthodox Church bishops arrive in the St. Sava temple before church closed session in Belgrade, Serbia, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021. The Serbian Orthodox Church gathers in closed session to pick a new Patriarch, following the death of old one Irinej. Irinej died last year of COVID, following the outbreak of virus among church officials in Belgrade. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
Serbian Orthodox Church picks ally of president as patriarch

By Dusan Stojanovic Feb. 18, 2021 01:27 PM EST

Albin Kurti leader of Vetevendosje (Self-Determination) speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in capital Pristina, Kosovo on Sunday, Feb. 14, 2021. Kosovo's main opposition Self-Determination Movement party or Vetevendosje! has won a clear victory in an early election held 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 Feb. 15, 2021 03:22 AM EST

Election commission employees count casted ballots after the polls closed in parliamentary elections in capital Pristina, Kosovo, Sunday, Feb. 14, 2021. Kosovo’s voters defied freezing weather to vote in an early parliamentary election to form a new government amid the coronavirus pandemic, an economic downturn and stalled negotiations with wartime foe Serbia. (AP Photo/ Visar Kryeziu)
Leftist opposition party heads to victory in Kosovo election

By Llazar Semini Feb. 14, 2021 01:02 AM EST

Supporters of Ramush Haradinaj, candidate for prime minister of the Alliance for the Future of Kosova (AAK), gather during a rally in the town of Peja, Kosovo, on Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021. Kosovo holds an early general election on upcoming Sunday Feb. 14, amid the coronavirus pandemic, economic downturn and stalled negotiations with wartime foe Serbia. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)
Economy, not Serbia, dominates Kosovo election campaign

By Llazar Semini Feb. 12, 2021 06:49 AM EST

Bosnian filmmaker Jasmila Zbanic speaks and gestures during an interview with the Associated Press in the capital Sarajevo, Bosnia, Saturday, Jan. 30, 2021. Zbanic's latest and the most ambitious film "Quo Vadis, Aida?", based on true events from Bosnia's brutal 1992-95 inter-ethnic war has been many years in the making. (AP Photo/Kemal Softic)
Bosnian director: Movie's human-rights focus resonates now

By Sabina Niksic Feb. 01, 2021 05:45 PM EST

FILE - In this Jan. 26, 2021, file photo, registered nurse Diane Miller pulls on gloves and other protective equipment as she prepares to enter patient rooms in the COVID acute care unit at UW Medical Center-Montlake in Seattle. The deadliest month of the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S. drew to a close with certain signs of progress: COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations are trending downward, while vaccinations are picking up speed. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)
The Latest: Wash. state warns hospitals on VIP vaccinations

By The Associated Press Feb. 01, 2021 04:19 AM EST

In this photo provided by NATO-led peacekeeping mission in Kosovo (KFOR), Italian soldiers decorate lights on the Christmas Eve in the KFOR military headquarters in Kosovo capital Pristina, Thursday, Dec. 24, 2020. The coronavirus pandemic has totally changed Christmas time operation method and celebrations for the Kosovo Force but it has left unchanged its mission: keeping Kosovo safe and secure for 22 years now on. (KFOR via AP)
Virus changes work, not goal, of Kosovo's NATO peacekeepers

By Florent Bajrami And Llazar Semini Dec. 25, 2020 03:51 AM EST

Kosovo Albanian Fadil Rama, right, holds a cup of water for a Kosovo Serb Blagica Dicic a lonely 92-year old woman in a remote village of Vaganesh, Kosovo on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020, abandoned by all her former ethnic Serb neighbors. Blagica Dicic is in failing health, and is the only resident of a remote ethnic Serb minority village in the mountains of eastern Kosovo that’s been abandoned by all its other inhabitants, even her own children, but Fadil Rama, 54, comes from the other side of Kosovo’s bitter ethnic divide. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)
Kosovo ethnic divide eases as Muslim cares for elderly Serb

By Llazar Semini Dec. 02, 2020 05:12 AM EST

A medic wearing full protective gear works in the corridor in the COVID-19 ward at a former military hospital in the capital Sarajevo, Bosnia, Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020. Doctors in Bosnia, one of the hardest hit countries in the Balkans with the new coronavirus, are appealing on the citizens to respect preventive measures and help the ailing health system. (AP Photo/Kemal Softic)
Bosnia doctors appeal for respect of rules amid virus surge

By Kemal Softic Nov. 19, 2020 12:30 PM EST