Kosovo is a land-locked region within Serbia and Montenegro. It was an autonomous province in the Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia in 1945–89, but under the rule of the Serb President Slobodan Milošević in 1987–2000 its powers...

In 1999, NATO and the United Nations occupied Kosovo, a province in the former Yugoslavia, in order to protect the Muslim Albanian population from the Serbian military. Serbia regards Kosovo as an integral part of Serbia. Albanians in Kosovo are...

Kosovo Long a center for competing imperial ambitions, Kosovo in the twentieth century endured a long and bloody process of transformation. Its history is one of subordination, ethnic conflict, and economic deprivation, which took on its...

Kosovo (Albanian: Kosova or Kosovë, Serbian:Kosovo) is under United Nations administration since 1999. While Serbia's sovereignty is recognised by the international community, in practice Serbian governance in the province is virtually non-existent...

Following a visit to the Balkans, Secretary-General Kofi Annan reported on 21 October that although the situation in Kosovo had greatly improved, much remained to be done to bring democracy and reconciliation to the territory. The level of violence in Kosovo continued to...

Henry Kissinger's opposition to U.S. ground forces in Kosovo is based on faulty history; his prescriptions for U.S. Balkan policy are morally bankrupt and would mortally wound the NATO alliance {op-ed, Feb. 22}. Mr. Kissinger subscribes to the simplistic view that Balkan people...

Kosovo's leaders said Saturday that independence for their province is "not negotiable," even as they pledged to work with diplomats seeking common ground with Serbia on the territory's future.Envoys from the United States, the European Union and Russia are in the region as part of...

Suddenly, they're almost everywhere: NATO peacekeepers patrolling Kosovo in trucks and Humvees. The increased presence is intended to reassure, but it's rattling nerves as the breakaway province gears up for independence."There's tension in the air — especially at night," said Dragan Jovanovic, 41, who lives...