A Serbian train halted at the border with Kosovo and bearing signs reading "Kosovo is Serbian," has fueled a major crisis in the Balkans and escalated a potential Russia-West row over dominance in the heart of the Balkans. Kosovo, supported by much of the West, declared independence from Serbia in 2008. Serbia has sought to maintain influence in Kosovo's north, where most of the country's Serb minority lives. "Maybe because it had 'Kosovo is Serbian' written on it, and because it had pictures of our icons inside." Tensions between Serbia and Kosovo have soared following the recent detention in France of Ramush Haradinaj, a former Kosovo prime minister, on an arrest warrant from Serbia.

Source: Fox News January 15, 2017 19:05 UTC