Kosovo Detains Two on War Crime Allegations Amid Mass Grave Excavation

Arrest of unnamed suspects relates to ongoing excavation of suspected mass grave near Zubin Potok – which some believes may contain remains of 23 Kosovo Albanians abducted in 1999.

Internal Disputes Leave Kosovo’s Competition Watchdog Unable to Operate
  • July 29, 2026

Kosovo's Competition Authority, the institution tasked with preventing monopolies, investigating price-fixing and inspecting major corporate mergers, has stopped functioning after an internal dispute among its leadership escalated into institutional paralysis.

Kosovo Unveils First Official Figures of Wartime Victims
  • July 29, 2026

More than 13,000 people were killed, forcibly disappeared, or died as a result of the Kosovo war, according to a preliminary list published by Kosovo's Institute for Crimes Committed During the War, the country's first institutional record of wartime victims.

Mayor Acquitted of Obstructing Justice in Kosovo War Crimes Trial
  • July 28, 2026

Former guerrilla turned politician Sami Lushtaku is cleared of obstructing justice and intimidating witnesses in his trial for war crimes – of which he was cleared in 2017.

Kosovo Retrial Confirms Serbian Police Ex-Inspector’s Ten-Year Sentence
  • July 28, 2026

Retrial upholds ten-year sentence for ethnic Gorani ex-police officer who assaulted ethnic Albanian prisoners during the Kosovo war, one of whom died.

Reaction Regarding the ‘Lule Gjeli’ Facebook Profile and the Defamation Campaign Against KALLXO.com
  • July 27, 2026

Recent claims circulating on social media and promoted by various influencers that the Facebook profile “Lule Gjeli,” which disseminates disinformation, is connected to or supported by KALLXO.com are false.

Kosovo Sets Parliament Inauguration Date Amid Deadlock Uncertainty
  • July 24, 2026

As potential coalition talks have stopped, Kosovo's Acting President Albulena Haxhiu has set the constitutive session of Kosovo's new parliament, deriving from the June snap parliamentary elections, for August 6, one day before the constitutional deadline.

Illustration. BIRN/Besnik Krivanjeva

Albin Kurti – Baba: Kosovo’s ‘Father’ Who Inherits an Absence
  • July 22, 2026

Amid Kosovo’s political instability in the past two years, a nickname hardened into a title: Albin Kurti’s voters no longer call him Prime Minister but Baba –father. This essay asks what that word is doing and why it keeps reappearing at moments of political and economic anxiety?

EU, OSCE Missions Criticise Kosovo’s Demolition of Serb-Owned Villas
  • July 22, 2026

EU and OSCE regret bulldozing of allegedly illegally-built Serb villas near important lake, urging authorities to respect due process and the property rights of all the communities in the country.

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Albin Kurti – Baba: Kosovo’s ‘Father’ Who Inherits an Absence

Vjosa Musliu
  • July 22, 2026
Illustration. BIRN/Besnik Krivanjeva

The Missing Context in Kosovo’s Energy Debate

Viktor Berishaj
  • June 5, 2026

Testing the Future: North Macedonia’s Non-Existent Albanian Language Bar Exam

Xhavit Rexhaj
  • April 15, 2026

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Serbia President Aleksandar Vucic (L), EU High Representative Josep Borrell (2-L) and Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti (R) at a meeting of the EU-Kosovo-Serbia Dialogue in Brussels on February 27, 2023. Photo: EPA/STEPHANIE LECOCQ

Two Years On, Kosovo- Serbia Normalisation Deal Still Pending
  • March 18, 2025

The EU-facilitated verbal deal to implement the ‘normalisation’ of relations between Serbia and Kosovo, reached in Ohrid, North Macedonia in 2023, continues to hang in the balance as the Kosovo-Serbia dialogue remains nearly paralysed.

NATO General Secretary (L) and Kosovo's President Vjosa Osmani (R) in Prishtina, Kosovo on March 11, 2025. Photo: Official Facebook Account of Vjosa Osmani

NATO General Secretary Urges Leadership and Dialogue for Lasting Peace in the Balkans
  • March 11, 2025

NATO General Secretary Mark Rutte emphasised the need for leadership and commitment from all parties to secure lasting peace and stability in the Balkans during his visit to Kosovo.

Kosovo Optimistic About Becoming Newest Member of Council of Europe, Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister
  • March 22, 2024

The Kosovo deputy minister of Foreign Affairs, Kreshnik Ahmeti, told Kallxo Përnime TV programme that the implementation of the Constitutional Court ruling which awarded land to the Decani Monastery will lead to Kosovo becoming the newest member of the Council of Europe very soon.

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Posters at the opening of Anibar International Animation Festival read: “‘Patriarkati: Fabrikë e Dhunuesve (The Patriarchy: a Factory of Abusers)’; ‘Patriarkati: Armik i Përbashkët (The Patriarchy: Mutual Enemy)’; ‘Patriarkati: Fundi po i vjen (Patriarchy: Its end is coming)’." July 15, 2024. Photo: BIRN

‘Smashing the Patriarchy’: Anibar Film Festival Provides Possibilities for Equality

Anibar International Animation Festival

In its fifteenth edition, the Anibar International Animation Festival, in Kosovo’s town of Peja, urges citizens to raise their voices against patriarchal oppression.
Purple flags at the Sunny Hill festival for this year’s festival’s theme “A Flag for Her”, against gender based violence. Photo: BIRN

Sunny Hill festival

Most attendees praise the new out-of-town site of Kosovo’s Sunny Hill festival, which opened on Thursday – though some are less happy about updated ticket prices.

Prishtina

You might have read that Yahoo article about how the best macchiatos in the word are made in Prishtina. But the city has more than that. A visitor spending a day in the newest capital of Europe should take in a macchiato before walking around some of the interesting places, old cultural objects and bars – without which Prishtina would be known only for good macchiato and nothing else.

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