NATO Bolsters Kosovo Mission After Election Sparks Clashes With Country’s Serbs

Kosovo Serbs hold a Serbian flag as they take part in a demonstration in Strpce on Jan. 8, 2023, after a gunman shot and wounded two Serbs, one an 11-year-old child, in Kosovo on Jan. 6, 2023, Orthodox Christmas Eve. Armend Nimani/AFP via Getty Images

NATO has announced plans to reinforce its peacekeeping force (KFOR) in Kosovo, where ethnic Serbs in the country’s north recently came to blows with NATO peacekeepers. 

Serbia’s military has since been deployed near the border with Kosovo, in the latest political flare-up in Eastern Europe.