center for security studies

Following the resignation of a number of Serbian members of the Kosovo Security Force, KSF, the Kosovar Center for Security Studies, KCSS, has published a report blaming Serbian government pressure.

According to the KCSS, the pressure on Serbian KSF members and their mass withdrawal constituted an act of "brutal interference" by Serbia with a Kosovo state institution.

Main opposition New Democracy has called on the country's civil protection agency to be entrusted to an expert in the field, rejecting the government's new appointee to the job.

Two weeks after the catastrophic fires that ravaged coastal areas of Attica, killing at least 91 people and razing large tracts of forestland, the country's civil protection chief has resigned.

Yiannis Kapakis submitted his resignation on Monday to Interior Minister Panos Skourletis, who accepted it.

The standoff over North Korea’s nuclear program has long been shaped by the view that the United States has no viable military option to destroy it. Any attempt to do so, many say, would provoke a brutal counterattack against South Korea too bloody and damaging to risk.