Kosovo announces new army, Serbia responds by raising prospect of armed intervention. Thousands of NATO-led peacekeepers, including U.S. soldiers, have been stationed in Kosovo since 1999.

WHAT IS KOSOVO'S ARMY FOR? The new army will have a €98 million ($111 million) annual budget, with 5,000 troops armed with light infantry weapons and 3,000 reservists.

Prime Minister Albin Kurti has said Kosovo's Security Force (KSF) should develop into an army by 2028, but there is strong opposition from Serbia. View on euronews ...

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Serbia sought support from allies Russia and China on Tuesday in opposing the formation of a Kosovo army, warning that a military in its former province could lead to renewed clashes in the Balkans.

PRISTINA (Reuters) – Kosovo’s government ordered the creation of a national army on Tuesday by upgrading a lightly armed civil response force six years after the majority-Albanian country ...

Kosovo's determination to turn its lightly armed security force into an army has made things only worse. EPA Kosovo has an ethnic Serb population of some 120,000, and Serbia sees a military force ...

In 1998 and 1999, the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) fought Serbian forces in an all-out war. An international consortium tried to establish peace.

Serbia has withdrawn some troops stationed near the border with Kosovo, after having increased the numbers deployed there following a gun battle in northern Kosovo in which four people died, army ...