{"id":"8410c748-748b-433b-b021-fd32c650704d","url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/world/europe/kosovo-thaci-war-crimes-hague-serbia.html","domain":"nytimes.com","outlet":{"name":"The New York Times","country":"US","cred":5,"lean":-1,"curated":true,"owner":"The New York Times Company"},"title":"Kosovo’s Former Leader Is Sentenced to 25 Years in War Crimes Case","plainHeadline":"Kosovo’s former leader Thaci sentenced to 25 years for war crimes including detention, torture, and murder.","rewrite":{"model":null,"at":null},"summary":[],"topics":["Politics"],"lang":"eng","publishedAt":"2026-09-16T11:29:58.000Z","ingestedAt":"2026-09-16T11:47:06.482Z","story":"https://brief.concise.news/story/a47ee8ca-a0e3-41fe-a438-8e9c28868eaa","storyId":"a47ee8ca-a0e3-41fe-a438-8e9c28868eaa","image":"https://static01.nyt.com/images/2026/09/16/multimedia/16int-kosovo-president-02-jtzg/16int-kosovo-president-02-jtzg-mediumSquareAt3X.jpg","author":"Amelia Nierenberg","dek":"A tribunal in The Hague found Hashim Thaci, who led Kosovo’s independence struggle in the 1990s, responsible for arbitrary detention, torture and murder."}