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Kosovo-Serbia tension: History, latest flare-up and what’s next?

 "Violent clashes between Kosovo’s police and NATO-led peacekeepers on one side and local Serbs on the other have left several people injured on both sides.

The situation has again fueled fears of a renewal of the 1998-99 conflict in Kosovo that claimed more than 10,000 lives and left more than one million homeless."

Why are Serbia and Kosovo at odds?

Kosovo is a mainly ethnic Albanian-populated (Majority Muslim ) territory that was formerly a province of Serbia ( Majority Christian) . It declared independence in 2008.

Serbia has refused to recognise Kosovo’s statehood and still considers it part of Serbia, even though it has no formal control there.

Kosovo’s independence has been recognised by about 100 countries, including the United States.

Russia, China and five European Union nations have sided with Serbia. The deadlock has kept tensions simmering and prevented full stabilisation of the Balkan region after the bloody wars in the 1990s."

SOURCE:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2023/5/29/kosovo-serbia-tension-history-latest-flare-up-and-whats-next


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