NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen named former Turkish presidential advisor Huseyin Dirioz as the organisation’s deputy secretary-general in charge of defence and planning on Friday (July 16th). The move came following a promise Rasmussen made when he took the post in 2009 to appoint a Turkish citizen as his deputy.

EULEX judges on Friday rejected a US request for the extradition of a Kosovo Albanian suspected of terrorism. A three-member panel denied the request to extradite Bajram Asllani, citing several grounds, including the

Serbian President Boris Tadic reiterated on Saturday that Serbia is ready for a compromise on Kosovo, but he stressed that Belgrade will never recognise its independence. “Nobody should force us to make that choice,” he