Rising tensions between Serbia and Kosovo lead to violent clashes with NATO troops.

At least 30 NATO troops were injured in clashes with ethnic Serbs in Kosovo, with 11 Italian and 19 Hungarian soldiers sustaining injuries, including fractures and burns. The Serbs had attempted to take over the offices of one of the municipalities in northern Kosovo where ethnic Albanian mayors took up their posts last week. The violence was the latest incident since the weekend when ethnic Serbs in northern Kosovo tried to block recently elected ethnic Albanian officials from entering municipal buildings. Kosovo and Serbia have been foes for decades, with Belgrade refusing to recognise Kosovo’s 2008 sovereignty.