Picture of two women walking in front a many men sitting on a concrete ledge in a crowded park.

Kosovo wants to decide its future—but will history hold it back?

This small Balkan country won its independence from Serbia 15 years ago, but still waits for justice for wartime victims and global recognition as a new nation.

As the time for Friday prayer approaches, a crowd gathers outside the Bajram Pasha Mosque in the city of Mitrovicë. It was built on the site of a mosque damaged in the 1998-99 war with Serbia and is the largest in Kosovo. The country’s ethnic Albanians are overwhelmingly Muslim.
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