Troops welcome after violence

Kosovo’s prime minister on Friday welcomed a NATO decision to bolster its troops in the Balkan region, saying last weekend’s shootout that left four people dead illustrates Serbia’s attempts to destabilize its former province with the help of ally Russia. “These people want to turn back time,” Prime Minister Albin Kurti said. “They are in search of a time machine. They want to turn the clock back by 30 years. But that is not going to happen.” Kosovo police on Friday raided several locations in a Serb-dominated area of the country’s north, where violence left one Kosovo police officer and three Serb insurgents dead and further strained relations between Serbia and its former province.