<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Uprising in the Balkans</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/issues/kosovo?nav=rss_world/issues/kosovo</link><description>Uprising in the Balkans</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Ethnic Rivalries Still Bitter in Balkans]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29172-2004Nov5.html?nav=rss_world/issues/kosovo</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29172-2004Nov5.html?nav=rss_world/issues/kosovo</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 12:05:23 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Kosovo and Bosnia remain sharply divided, and Macedonians fear upcoming vote may spark violence in the tenuous region.]]></description><author> Daniel Williams</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[U.N. Hostages Seen Alive on Videotape]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13486-2004Oct31.html?nav=rss_world/issues/kosovo</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13486-2004Oct31.html?nav=rss_world/issues/kosovo</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 12:05:23 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Their kidnappers threatened to kill the hostages in 72 hours unless U.N. and foreign troops withdrew from Afghanistan, and Taliban and al Qaeda prisoners were freed from U.S. military jails.]]></description><author> Keith B. Richburg</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Serbs Boycott Kosovo Elections]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57465-2004Oct23.html?nav=rss_world/issues/kosovo</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57465-2004Oct23.html?nav=rss_world/issues/kosovo</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 12:05:23 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Serbs strike a blow at efforts to promote multiethnic cooperation in advance of talks designed to determine the status of the province.]]></description><author> Daniel Williams</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[After Delays, Milosevic Opens Defense]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50492-2004Aug31.html?nav=rss_world/issues/kosovo</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50492-2004Aug31.html?nav=rss_world/issues/kosovo</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 12:05:23 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ THE HAGUE, Aug. 31 -- Former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic  launched on Tuesday a defiant defense of his conduct during the Balkan wars, accusing his enemies of conspiracies against the Serbs and insisting that his countrymen acted in self-defense.]]></description><author> To Sterling</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Kosovo, Two Worlds Divided by One River]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13548-2004Mar21.html?nav=rss_world/issues/kosovo</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13548-2004Mar21.html?nav=rss_world/issues/kosovo</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 12:05:23 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Four thousand Kosovo Albanians sat silently on a hillside during the burial Sunday of two boys who drowned in a river last week, forced into the raging torrent, they believe, by Serbs who loosed a pit bull on them.]]></description><author> Daniel Williams</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Albanians Blamed For Kosovo Unrest]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11585-2004Mar20.html?nav=rss_world/issues/kosovo</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11585-2004Mar20.html?nav=rss_world/issues/kosovo</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 12:05:23 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[PRISTINA, Serbia and Montenegro, March 20 -- The violence that convulsed Kosovo last week, leaving 28 people dead and driving 3,500 Serbs from their homes, was partially orchestrated by extremist ethnic Albanian groups, according to U.N. and NATO officials and Albanian observers.]]></description><author> Daniel Williams</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kosovo's Latest Ethnic Strife Threatens Serbs' Future There]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9363-2004Mar19.html?nav=rss_world/issues/kosovo</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9363-2004Mar19.html?nav=rss_world/issues/kosovo</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 12:05:23 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[More than 1,000 Kosovo Serbs have been driven from their homes during three days of assaults by Kosovo's ethnic Albanian majority, threatening the future of a multi-ethnic Kosovo.]]></description><author> Daniel Williams</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[31 Dead as Riots Spread Across Kosovo, Serbia]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6216-2004Mar18.html?nav=rss_world/issues/kosovo</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6216-2004Mar18.html?nav=rss_world/issues/kosovo</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 12:05:23 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Ethnic Albanians burned houses and churches and drove hundreds of Serbs from towns and villages across Kosovo on Thursday, while Serbs outside the province retaliated by setting ablaze mosques in Serbia.]]></description><author> Daniel Williams</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[NATO to Send More Troops to Kosovo]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3832-2004Mar18.html?nav=rss_world/issues/kosovo</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3832-2004Mar18.html?nav=rss_world/issues/kosovo</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 12:05:23 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[NATO announced this morning that it is sending reinforcements to Kosovo, following intensified ethnic fighting there that has killed at least 22 people over the past two days.]]></description><author> Fred Barbash</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[At Least 17 Killed in Ethnic Clashes in Kosovo]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3304-2004Mar17.html?nav=rss_world/issues/kosovo</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3304-2004Mar17.html?nav=rss_world/issues/kosovo</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 12:05:23 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[PRISTINA, Serbia and Montenegro, March 18 -- Kosovo's fragile peace exploded on Wednesday in the worst clashes between ethnic Albanians and Serbs since NATO and the United Nations took control of the Serbian province in 1999. At least 17 people were killed as NATO troops scrambled to quell the outbreak.]]></description><author> Shaban Buza</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clark's Testimony on Milosevic Released]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11251-2003Dec18.html?nav=rss_world/issues/kosovo</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11251-2003Dec18.html?nav=rss_world/issues/kosovo</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 12:05:23 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The former NATO commander told a U.N. war crimes tribunal in the Hague that Yugoslavia's ex-president, Slobodan Milosevic, indicated he had prior knowledge of the massacre of Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica.]]></description><author> Keith B. Richburg</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clark's Role in Kosovo Bears Out His Traits]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6340-2003Dec16.html?nav=rss_world/issues/kosovo</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6340-2003Dec16.html?nav=rss_world/issues/kosovo</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 12:05:23 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Gen. Wesley K. Clark's most prominent traits -- willingness to defy convention, persistence and occasionally grating self-confidence in matters small and large -- not only influenced his advocacy of the war, but also helped alienate some of his superiors.]]></description><author> R. Jeffrey Smith</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Troops May Leave Bosnia In '04, Commander Says]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10935-2003Oct10.html?nav=rss_world/issues/kosovo</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10935-2003Oct10.html?nav=rss_world/issues/kosovo</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 12:05:23 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[U.S. peacekeeping troops could be withdrawn from Bosnia sometime next year, the U.S. military commander for Europe said yesterday.]]></description><author> Thomas E. Ricks</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[U.N. Officer Killed in Ambush in Kosovo]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19008-2003Aug4.html?nav=rss_world/issues/kosovo</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19008-2003Aug4.html?nav=rss_world/issues/kosovo</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 12:05:23 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[An Indian policeman was gunned down in an ambush late Sunday in the first killing of a U.N. police officer on duty in Kosovo since the United Nations assumed control of the Serbian  province in 1999.]]></description><author> Nicholas Wood</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[4 Top Rebels Convicted Of Kosovo Atrocities]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3528-2003Jul16.html?nav=rss_world/issues/kosovo</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3528-2003Jul16.html?nav=rss_world/issues/kosovo</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 12:05:23 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A U.N.-administered court convicted and sentenced four ethnic Albanians to prison today for atrocities they committed as senior rebel commanders during their 1998-99 war against Yugoslav forces in  Kosovo.]]></description><author> Garentina Kraja</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[U.N. Court Indicts 4 Kosovo Albanians]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27604-2003Feb18.html?nav=rss_world/issues/kosovo</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27604-2003Feb18.html?nav=rss_world/issues/kosovo</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 12:05:23 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague Tuesday disclosed its first indictments of Kosovo Albanians for acts they allegedly committed during the 1998-99 war against Serb forces.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yugoslavs Shrug Off Their Country's End]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26338-2003Feb4.html?nav=rss_world/issues/kosovo</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26338-2003Feb4.html?nav=rss_world/issues/kosovo</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 12:05:23 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The country that gave the world Tito, Cold War nonalignment, the Yugo car and a lesson in how a European multi-ethnic country could live as one and how it could be smashed, is no more.]]></description><author> Daniel Williams</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Former Serbian President Arrives in Hague for Trial]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19055-2003Jan20.html?nav=rss_world/issues/kosovo</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19055-2003Jan20.html?nav=rss_world/issues/kosovo</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 12:05:23 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Former Serbian president Milan Milutinovic arrived Monday at the U.N. war crimes detention center in The Hague pending arraignment on charges of helping in the expulsion of ethnic Albanians from Kosovo in 1999.]]></description><author> Keith B. Richburg</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kosovo Part Of Milosevic War Crimes Trial Ends]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5440-2002Sep11.html?nav=rss_world/issues/kosovo</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5440-2002Sep11.html?nav=rss_world/issues/kosovo</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 12:05:23 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[U.N. war crimes prosecutors Wednesday rested the first phase of their case against former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic following 95 days of testimony focused on the atrocities in Kosovo.]]></description><author> Keith B. Richburg</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reporter Testifies Against Milosevic, Stoking Debate]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8927-2002Aug28.html?nav=rss_world/issues/kosovo</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8927-2002Aug28.html?nav=rss_world/issues/kosovo</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 12:05:23 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic clashed with a BBC war reporter who questioned Serb assertions that NATO bombs killed prison inmates in Kosovo.]]></description><author> Abigail Levene</author></item></channel></rss>