Kosova war

BIRN Kosovo Director Jeta Xharra at the launch of a project to document the stories and trauma of families of missing persons from the Kosovo war, on August 29, 2025. Photo: BIRN

Relatives Record their Memories of Kosovo’s Wartime Missing

To mark the International Day of the Disappeared, BIRN Kosovo launched a campaign to document the stories and trauma of families still searching for loved ones lost during the 1998–99 war.

Kosovo Liberation Army was a ‘Voluntary Force’, Witness Tells Thaci Trial

Naim Maloku told Kosovo ex-President Hashim Thaci's trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity that the KLA did not have the structure of a 'real army' with orders issued by the General Staff.

War victims found in Serbian mass grave repatriated to Kosovo

The remains of ethnic Albanian civilians who were killed in the 1998-99 war and whose bodies were recently found in a clandestine mass grave in Serbia were handed over to the Kosovo authorities at a border crossing.