The monastery attack further raised tensions in the region at a time when European Union and U.S. officials have been pushing for a deal that would normalize ties between Serbia and Kosovo.

But years of political bickering and failed agreements brokered by the West to defuse tensions have worn down many Serbs in northern Kosovo, who have long preferred to live as though they were ...

A Kosovar police officer standing guard on Wednesday near a monastery in northern Kosovo, about 10 miles from the border with Serbia, days after violence there involving Serbian gunmen.

A group of Kosovo Serbs positioned trucks on a bridge into the village of Banjska, shooting at police who approached them, before the battle moved to the nearby monastery Serbian Orthodox monastery.