A battle between police and armed ethnic Serbs holed up in a monastery turned a quiet village in northern Kosovo into a war zone earlier this week.
A battle between police and armed Serbs turned a village in northern Kosovo into a war zone / Photo: AFP.
NATO did not immediately specify how many additional forces or from which countries in Friday's statement. Kosovo, which declared independence from Serbia in 2008 after an uprising and 1999 NATO intervention, accuses Serbia of arming and supporting the ethnic Serb fighters.
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