Author: Arben Fetoshi

Around 19:45, March 24, 1999. A defining chapter in modern European history began: NATO’s intervention to stop the ethnic cleansing in Kosovo. Exactly one year after the KLA’s epic resistance in Gllogjan, the democratic world launched its bombing campaign against Milošević’s criminal machinery. It was a difficult consensus, shaped by the liberal imperative to confront a “sovereignty” that was killing, abusing, massacring, and expelling civilians. Today, on the 27th anniversary of the battle against genocide, the struggle against Serbian “victimhood narratives” has become even more challenging. A truth recognized worldwide continues to be distorted by a reversed Serbian narrative: Racak…

A tragedy that began in the Ibar River, where three Albanian children (Egzon Deliu and Avni and Florent Veseli) drowned while being chased by a group of Serbs, on March 17 and 18, 2004, turned into the most severe episode of post-war Kosovo. Investigations classified the case as murder, yet UNMIK never identified the perpetrators. The civic revolt that followed continues to be remembered amid ambiguity and politicization. Calculating on public frustration caused by the delay of political status, “someone” provoked public anger, and the consequences severely affected not only human lives, property, monuments, and religious sites, but also the…

Today, 26 years ago, an organized attack, disguised as “hooliganism,” terrorized Albanians in the north of Mitrovica inside their own homes, using bombs, sniper rifles, automatic weapons, and other arms, under the “watch” of UNMIK Police and French KFOR troops. What witnesses describe as the “night of terror,” between 3 and 4 February 2000, was a “civilian” operation of ethnic persecution through brutal violence and the destruction of homes, leaving 10 people dead, including women, children, and the elderly, 25 wounded, and 93 physically abused. Yet another massacre against Albanians, in order to achieve the planned “result”: their expulsion from…

Why are sanctions the only tool to “discipline” Serbia? By: Arben Fetoshi Just as Milošević in 1998–1999 was refusing international agreements and warnings, “forcing” the world to react with NATO’s “Allied Force, 1999”, his former Minister of Information, Aleksandar Vučić, continues today to evade demands for accountability and constructive conduct regarding destabilizing interference against Kosovo. Serbia persists with its “two-chair policy” (Bieber, 2018), benefiting from the European integration process on the one hand and deepening strategic alignment with Russia and China on the other. Through a strategy that combines “victimization” as deception, aggression framed as “civic reaction,” and attacks through…

Author: Prof. Asoc. Dr. Arben Fetoshi – Director at Institute for Hybrid Warfare “OCTOPUS” First, he blames the Kosovo Police through a BIA report; then he accuses Prime Minister Kurti of using the attack to justify oppression of Serbs; meanwhile he deceives by offering “cooperation” in the investigation process; and in the end, he disappears from the narrative once the indictment exposes, nakedly, the responsibility of his state. This is Aleksandar Vucic, Milosevic’s “hyena,” who orchestrates endless schemes to undermine Kosovo, and who is brutally unmasked for the terrorist attack on the Ibër–Lepenc canal (2024) in Varragë, Zubin Potok. An…

Author: Asoc. Prof. Dr. Arben Fetoshi – Director at Institute for Hybrid Warfare Studies “OCTOPUS” and professor at University of Pristina “Hasan Prishtina” Why the “Historical Society” Outlines Serbia’s Neo-Soviet Alignment The establishment of the Russian Historical Society branch in Belgrade represents the clearest indicator of the hegemonic superstructure of “Slavic brotherhood,” marking one of the most serious threats to security and the democratic order. The “educational” center of expansionist policy from the Tsarist era (1866), revived by Vladimir Putin in 2012 to command the Russian “truth” through his most sophisticated instrument, the Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR),…

Author: Asoc. Prof. Dr. Arben Fetoshi – Director at Institute for Hybrid Warfare “OCTOPUS” Why Does Serbia’s Interference Pose a Threat to National Security? The significance of Sunday’s local elections (October 12) goes far beyond a political competition for the governance of municipalities in Kosovo. Serbia’s interference, more aggressive than in the past due to the failure of its boycott policy (2022) and the decline of its control in the north, have turned these elections into a geopolitical battlefield aligned with the Russian axis.What is disguised as an electoral campaign of the Serbian List is, in fact, a choreography orchestrated…

Two years since the terrorist attack in Banjska, Zvečan Author: Prof. Asoc. Dr. Arben Fetoshi- Director of Institute for Hybrid Warfare Studies “OCTOPUS” Two years after the incursion in Banjska, Zvečan, framed as a terrorist attack against the constitutional order of Kosovo, the Balkans remain under the threat of Serbia’s chauvinist appetites and the revisionist axis led by Russia. The unchanged goal of sabotaging the Republic of Kosovo has only sharpened the insidious methods of manipulation and nationalist mobilization. After the failure of Radoičić and his paramilitaries, as a result of the effectiveness of Kosovo’s security institutions in coordination with…

The address of the Director of the Institute for Hybrid Warfare Studies “OCTOPUS,” Assoc. Prof. Dr. Arben Fetoshi, participated in the 8th Ambassadors’ Conference, organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Diaspora of Kosovo. The conference, held in Pristina, featured several thematic sessions, including one titled “Non-Conventional Security Threats and Risks,” in which Mr. Fetoshi took part. — PROPAGANDA AS “HIGH RISK” In the current circumstances of geopolitical clashes, the Republic of Kosovo is a frontline between the democratic order and its enemies; it is the battlefield between the TRUTH and its distortion, as a precondition for the goals…

An ICJ decision that ignited the geopolitical calculations of the Serbo‑Russian axis Author: Prof. Asoc. Dr. Arben Fetoshi On the 15th anniversary of the International Court of Justice’s Advisory Opinion (ICJ, 2010) on the legality of Kosova’s independence, a legal act has symbolically transformed into a “frontline” between the democratic order and today’s revisionist ambitions. The request originally submitted by Serbia itself (Vuk Jeremić, 15 August 2008) to the UN General Assembly, and the pledge to respect the ICJ’s ruling, returned like a “boomerang,” exposing Serbia’s hypocrisy after 22 July 2010, when it resumed diplomatic aggression against Kosova. Ironically, a…