20. August 2021.
One of the defendants on trial for participating in the abduction and killings of 20 non-Serb civilian passengers who were seized at Strpci station during the Bosnian war died in July, said Belgrade Higher Court.
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20. August 2021.
The recent repatriation of families of ISIS fighters to Kosovo, Albania and North Macedonia poses a tough challenge to all three countries to rehabilitate them back into society.
19. August 2021.
Three Kosovo Albanians, one of them who was already wanted to a prison sentence, were detained on suspicion of attacking a Serb - the latest of several recent assaults on members of the Serb minority in the country.
16. August 2021.
Twitter has labelled a number of well-known newspapers and TV stations in Serbia as media where 'the state exercises control over editorial content through financial resources and direct or indirect political pressures'.
16. August 2021.
After Taliban forces swept to power in Afghanistan, governments in Albania, Kosovo and North Macedonia have accepted a US request to offer temporary refuge to some political refugees who are fleeing the country in fear of retaliation.
13. August 2021.
The recently-published verdict in the trial of wartime Serbian security chiefs Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic shows how despite its denials, the Serbian state supported fighting units that committed crimes during the wars in Croatia and Bosnia.
11. August 2021.
Police said they are investigating after a Facebook post by the Serb mayor of Croatia’s Borovo municipality described the Croatian Army’s 1995 Operation Storm, which defeated rebel Serb forces and sparked a refugee exodus, as a crime.
9. August 2021.
Croatian officials reacted indignantly after state prosecutors in Bosnia and Herzegovina reportedly asked Zagreb if its judiciary can prosecute Croatian wartime generals for crimes allegedly committed during the Croatian Army’s Operation Flash in 1995.
9. August 2021.
A match in the ethnic Bosniak-majority city of Novi Pazar was temporarily halted because visiting fans of Belgrade club Partizan were chanting slogans celebrating the Srebrenica massacres and Bosnian Serb Army commander Ratko Mladic.
6. August 2021.
In the absence of legal cooperation with Serbia, Kosovo has changed its legislation to make it easier to try suspects in their absence - but sceptics say this doesn’t necessarily mean that more war criminals will go to jail.
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