Paramilitary organizations

Twenty-seven suspects, including a senior member of ISIL, have been handed down lengthy prison sentences for planning attacks on a convoy of the main opposition Republican People's Party's (CHP) "justice march" in 2017.

Four suspected members of ISIL were captured in southeast Turkey, according to security sources on Feb. 2. 

At least 18 people were killed when two bombs hit a church on a southern Philippine island that is a stronghold of Islamist militants, the military said Sunday, days after voters backed the creation of a new Muslim autonomous region, reports AFP. 

Kosovo Police have launched an investigation after the town of Zubin Potok, in Serb-run northern Kosovo, was plastered with pamphlets saying members of the local Serbian community members who worked for the Kosovo Security Forces, KSF, would be dealt with.

The pamphlet was signed by an unknown group called Severna Armija [Northern Army].

If and when this happens it will only be as a result of the assessment that there is improvement on the ground, he told Kosovapress, Tanjug reported on Monday, citing UNMIK's Media Observer.

In the meantime, KFOR continues to perform its duties, continues to control the administrative boundary line, continues to guarantee a safe and secure environment for all, Cuoci said.

Spain's ambassador to NATO recently visited the KFOR base in Pristina, and asked Kosovo officials not to refer to themselves by their titles.

Kosovo Serb representatives from civil society groups, Kosovo's President and pundits on security issues discussed Serb fears about the potential transformation of the Kosovo Security Forces, KSF, into a regular army at a discussion organized by Kosovar Center for Security Studies on Wednesday in Pristina.

No political representatives of Kosovo Serbs participated in the discussion.

President of the so-called independent state of Kosovo Hashim Thaci claims that by the end of the year, Kosovo will have its own army and that no one will be allowed to block it, and that the conditions of the Serbian List ("Srpska lista") on this issue have never been part of the negotiations.

NATO-led Kosovo Force (KFOR) will remain in Kosovo an Metohija "as long as needed," says US General Curtis Scaparrotti.

Serb (Srpska) List leader Slavko Simic has rejected claims that Serb representatives had "four conditions for the transformation of the KSF into an army."

He in this way denied the veracity of the statement made by outgoing Minister of the Kosovo Security Force (KSF) Haki Demolli.