Serbian Prime Minister and Interior Minister Ivica Dacic met on Monday with the new head of the EU mission in Kosovo, EULEX, Bernd Borchardt. Dacic insisted during the meeting that EULEX, together with KFOR and UNMIK, should secure full protection of citizens in Kosovo and Metohija.

The United Nations will move about half of its 100 foreign staff members out of Syria after a number of mortar shells fell near their hotel in Damascus, damaging the building and a UN vehicle, the United Nations said on Monday.

Turkey conquered the Balkans five centuries ago. Now Turkish power is making inroads through friendlier means. Two Turkish-run universities have opened in Bosnia’s Ottoman-influenced capital in recent years, bringing an influx of Turkish students and culture to a predominantly Muslim country still reeling from a brutal ethnic war almost two …