Persecution of Serbs and other non-Albanians in Kosovo

The minister for Communities and Returns in the Kosovo government says that seven suspects in attacks on Serb returnees in Klina and Istok have been arrested.

Dalibor Jevtic praised the Kosovo police because of this, the Beta agency reported.

Serbs injured, Kosovo police car comes under fire

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA -- Two Serb men in their 20s have been injured in a shooting in northern Kosovska Mitrovica early on Monday.

They are currently treated for their injuries described as non life-threatening.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Eleven attacks against Serbs and their property have been registered this year, and the incidents are a direct attack on the process of the return of displaced persons, says Kosovo's minister for return and communities Dalibor Jevtic.

Jihadist ideology has reached region - official

BELGRADE -- Marko Đurić has said that fundamentalist Islamic state ideology "has penetrated deep into the pores of society in this region as well."

Imams, politician among those arrested on terror charges

PRIŠTINA -- The police in Kosovo on Wednesday morning arrested 15 persons suspected of involvement in terrorism, among them the imam of the Grand Mosque in Priština.

According to the local Albanian-language media, politician Fuad Ramiqi is also among those detained.

PRISTINA - The number of arrested members of extremist and terrorist organisations in Kosovo, as the result of an investigation led by prosecutor Blerim Isufaj, has reached 43, with another 14 people still at large.

One car burned down, another damaged in K. Mitrovica

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA -- One passenger vehicle was burned down and another was damaged in Kosovska Mitrovica late on Thursday.

The incident was "most likely an arson attack," the Kosovo police told Tanjug.

BELGRADE - The Office for Kosovo-Metohija has vehemently condemned the stoning of the house and the car owned by the Serb family Nojic in Gnjilane, eastern Kosovo-Metohija, demanding that the Pristina authorities find the perpetrators as soon as possible.

Del Ponte regrets lack of evidence in organ harvesting case

BELGRADE -- Carla Del Ponte expressed regret today that an EU team headed by U.S. prosecutor John Clint Williamson was unable to find sufficient evidence in their probe.

They looked into allegations of human organ trafficking in Kosovo.

BRUSSELS - Clint Williamson, chief prosecutor and head of the EU special investigation team for human organ trafficking during the clashes in Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) in 1999, will release his report on July 28 and the indictments will be raised after the constitution of the special court due in early 2015, Tanjug learnt from diplomatic sources in Brussels.