Serbia-Kosovo tensions: Troops on alert after Mitrovica arrests

Troops in Serbia have been put on high alert after Kosovan police made several arrests in the semi-autonomous territory dominated by Serbs.
Police said they were targeting organised crime.
But Serbian leaders, who don't recognise Kosovo's independence, say the officers were sent to intimidate them.
Al Jazeera's Rory Challands reports.

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[romuluspopulus]

Although Greece is member of Nato most of the Greeks supports our Serbians brothers which were our allies in many wars. Greece will stay out of operations against Serbia like it happened with the bombing

[YTsss]

Kosovo is Serbia 🇷🇸 💯💪🏾 facts !!!! Love ❤️ from
Canada 🇨🇦

[robalston]

Russia must send troops to defend Serbia

[kalapuikko]

Kosovo is Serbia! Finland supports Serbia!

[anonimous]

Kosovo the newest 54 untied American state outside of America.

[catapetrovich]

Srbija je član Interpola, Kosovo nije! Kakvo je pravo da uđu u Kosovsku Mitrovicu i "uhapse" pod lažnim izgovorom civile i policajce, uključujući i ruskog diplomatu?

[levanimarkhulia]

Kosovo part of serbia
Georgian brothers love serbians 🇬🇪🇸🇰

[illyrianillyrian]

Kosovo🇽🇰 is a sovereign and independent state, Serbia still continues with propaganda and does not accept the reality and accept war crimes as Kosovo🇽🇰has done in 1999 and now, Kosovo will never be defeated and it will still be much stronger Kosovo.🇽🇰🇦🇱👐

[HanibalAntePortas]

One day we will return our holy land :)

[KingBardylis]

Those policemen were working under Kosovo's rules and when u break them u go in jail and its all good but Serbia cant take it, if u dont like our laws dont work in our country or live in it.

[mentorpozhegu]

Serbia with the help of Russia started all 5 Yugoslav wars and loste all of them Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro and Kosovo. Russia is the only reason why this problematic country is still on the map today.

[МаркоМирковић-вц]

It's funny how albanians think they are ilyrians.

[sounds]

Below are excerpts of an article written by Philip Hammond in 2019.

As they had done in Croatia and Bosnia, Western governments threw fuel on the flames by supporting the separatists, while portraying themselves as peacemakers.

NATO leaders were fully aware that, as the UK’s then defence secretary George Robertson admitted on the day the bombing began, until early 1999
*‘the KLA were responsible for more deaths in Kosovo than the Yugoslav authorities had been’. As NATO also knew, the KLA strategy was to escalate conflict, precisely in order to precipitate Western action.*

One Kosovo-Albanian leader told the BBC afterwards: *‘The more civilians were killed, the chances of international intervention became bigger, and the KLA of course realised that.’*

According to a 2017 report by the UN Development Programme, *over 300 young men from Kosovo went to join Islamic State in Syria, some climbing ‘to the top of the ISIS hierarchy’, while others have ‘carried out attacks on Western Europe and in the USA’.*

Some commentators have blamed the influence of the Saudi-funded Islamic charities who set up in Kosovo after the war, possibly unaware that the KLA used to be an importer of jihadis. As the British author Mark Curtis has pointed out, *Western intelligence agencies knew about the KLA’s active collaboration with al-Qaeda before the war. The response of NATO governments at the time was to supply arms and training.*

[flaviuslupu]

THEY AVOID TO SAY "WHY WERE ARRESTED?"

[merxho]

Kosovo has its right to implement Rule of Law in every corner in their country. This was not against Kosovo Serbs it was against organised crime structures and Belgrade is speaking in defending the Serbian popullation *facepalm*

[humo]

Kosovo 🇽🇰❤️, Say the word and your Muslim Brothers will come to your aid! 🇵🇰 ❤️🇽🇰 🇦🇱🇧🇦

[mehdiganbarov]

Kosovo je Srbija ! Love from Azerbaijan

[gavriil]

Kosovo je Srbija Basarabia e România North Epirus is Greek 🇷🇴🇷🇸🇬🇷

[dg]

It's time to take our country back !
🇷🇸❤

[Abraham_Tsfaye]

If Serbs don’t accept they have to respect Kosovan laws then move to Serbia. If I go to country I respect its laws or I leave.