The North Atlantic Treaty Organization warned of mounting instability in the Balkans after lawmakers in Kosovo voted to establish an army, prompting outrage in neighboring Serbia, which disputes the country’s independence. Kosovo has been governed as an international protectorate, with NATO handling its security, since it declared independence in 2008, nine years after U.S.-led NATO forces stopped Serbia’s military crackdown on its breakaway province.

Source: Wall Street Journal December 14, 2018 20:48 UTC