NATO to Send More Troops to Kosovo

World | March 18, 2004, Thursday // 00:00
NATO to Send More Troops to Kosovo As many as 17 mosques were set to fire in the worst ethno-religious clashes in Kosovo since US-UN rule together. Clashes between local Albanian and Serb communities spread across the whole province. Photo by Aljazeera.

NATO is to send reinforcements to Kosovo after the worst ethno-religious clashes since NATO and the UN took control in 1999, AFP informed. Flights in and out were suspended and internal boundaries with Serbia were closed after violence between Kosovo's Albanian and Serb communities has killed at least 22 people and injured some 500 others, a UN official said on Thursday. The violence was triggered on Tuesday in a northern town by a report that three ethnic Albanian children were pushed into a swift-flowing river by a group of Serbs and drowned.

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