Balkan Violence Poses New Risks for Europe
NATO soldiers stand guard yesterday in the town of Mitrovica, Kosovo.
Photographer: Armend Nimani/AFP/Getty Images
Kosovo, the powder keg of the Balkans, is once again at risk of detonating.
The long-running dispute over the rights of Kosovo’s Serb minority has spilled into violence, wrecking years of attempts to normalize ties between the ethnic-Albanian central government and Belgrade, which supports the Serbs.