Ibrahim Berisha is a camera operator for RFE/RL's Kosovo Service.
Fishermen in Albania and residents of Kosovo and Montenegro say toxic waste is ruining their environment. People who live near overflowing landfills get sick from toxic gasses, according to local doctors, but the costs of cleanup and new facilities remain out of reach for these small countries.
On September 24, 2023, dozens of ethnic Serb gunmen attacked a police unit in the village of Banjska in northern Kosovo. The motives behind the attack remain unclear. This month, Kosovar authorities indicted 45 people over the assault, including a politician who is thought to be at large in Serbia.
The town of Rahovec in Kosovo is the heart of an agricultural region with a centuries-old tradition of cultivating grapes. But winegrowers say it's difficult to turn a profit and need government support to help expand their access to foreign markets.
Minority Serb residents of northern Kosovo protested the proposed full opening of a key bridge in Mitrovica on August 7, decrying it as a symbolic threat. Members of the ethnic Serb community are angry over the closures of Serb-run postal facilities and the rejection of Serbian currency by Kosovo.
In the once-pristine village of Shala in central Kosovo, a stone quarry has turned the once serene landscapes into a dust-filled wasteland, endangering the health and safety of its residents.
A communist-era fortified island off the coast of Albania may now become a luxury resort under plans by Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of former U.S. President Donald Trump. A team of RFE/RL journalists explored the abandoned bunkers and tunnels of Sazan.
Hundreds of Roma spent years in temporary UN-run camps widely known to lie atop dangerously poisoned soil and vegetation. Decades later, the United Nations continues to stonewall.
In Kosovo's famously divided city, residents talk about coping with life when the languor of late spring gives way to security cordons, blaring alarms, and customers in bulletproof vests.
Twenty years ago, 45 ethnic Albanian civilians were killed by Serbian-led security forces in the Kosovar village of Racak. The massacre sparked international outrage and was one of the factors that led to the 1999 NATO bombing campaign that ended the bloody two-year war of Kosovar independence.
