--- title: "Kosovo ex-president Hashim Thaci faces war crimes verdict" description: "Most outlets reported that the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague delivered a verdict in the war crimes trial of former Kosovo president Hashim Thaci and three former KLA commanders. The News International led with the sentencing of Thaci to 25 years in prison for four counts of war crimes, while Minute Mirror focused on the delivery of the verdict without specifying the sentence." url: https://harzaviya.com/stories/8825-kosovo-ex-president-hashim-thaci-sentenced-to-25-years site: HarZaviya language: en --- # Kosovo ex-president Hashim Thaci faces war crimes verdict world · updated 17 Sep 2026, 3:00 AM PKT · 16–17 Sep 2026 · 4 articles from 4 outlets **HarZaviya summary** — how 4 outlets covered this, generated automatically from their headlines and excerpts: > Most outlets reported that the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague delivered a verdict in the war crimes trial of former Kosovo president Hashim Thaci and three former KLA commanders. The News International led with the sentencing of Thaci to 25 years in prison for four counts of war crimes, while Minute Mirror focused on the delivery of the verdict without specifying the sentence. ## Same story from 4 outlets Each outlet's own headline, most recent first — read any at its source. - **Business Recorder** — [Ex-Kosovo president sentenced to 25 years for war crimes](https://www.brecorder.com/news/40439900/ex-kosovo-president-sentenced-to-25-years-for-war-crimes) · 17 Sep 2026, 3:00 AM PKT > THE HAGUE/PRISTINA: Former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci was found guilty of war crimes including murder, torture and illegal detention by the Kosovo war crimes tribunal in The Hague on Wednesday. Thaci, 58, was sentenced to 25 years in prison for crimes committed as top commander of the ethnic Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) during the territory’s violent break from Serbia in 1998-99. - **Arab News Pakistan** — [A Hague court convicts Kosovo’s former President Thaci of war crimes and sentences him to 25 years](https://www.arabnews.pk/world/a-hague-court-convicts-kosovos-former-president-thaci-of-war-crimes-and-sentences-him-to-25-years-3001420) · 16 Sep 2026, 7:09 PM PKT · 86% identical wording to the newest filing - **The News International** — [Kosovo ex-president Hashim Thaci sentenced to 25 years in Hague war crimes trial](https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/1416452-kosovo-ex-president-hashim-thaci-sentenced-to-25-years-in-hague-war-crimes-trial) · 16 Sep 2026, 4:57 PM PKT · 94% identical wording to the newest filing > Kosovo former president Hashim Thaci was found guilty during Hague war crimes trial and was sentenced to 25 years in prison. Thaci was convicted by the Hague court of four counts of war crimes including murder, torture... - **Minute Mirror** — [Kosovo ex-president Thaci faces war crimes verdict](https://minutemirror.com.pk/kosovo-ex-president-thaci-faces-war-crimes-verdict-630750/) · 16 Sep 2026, 7:17 AM PKT · 87% identical wording to the newest filing > The Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague is set to deliver its verdict in the war crimes trial of former Kosovo president Hashim Thaci and three former commanders of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). Thaci, 58, and the other defendants are accused of crimes including murder and torture committed during Kosovo’s 1998-99 conflict with Serbian forces. Prosecutors have requested 45-year prison s... 4 articles from 4 outlets, 16–17 Sep 2026. Headlines and links belong to their outlets — HarZaviya links out and never copies article text. --- HarZaviya compares how Pakistani outlets cover the same story. It stores and shows each outlet's headline and a short excerpt, and links out — it never copies article text, and every headline belongs to the outlet that wrote it. It takes no stance on any outlet. Pages: [Top stories](https://harzaviya.com/) · [Latest headlines](https://harzaviya.com/feed) · [Archive](https://harzaviya.com/archive) · [Why](https://harzaviya.com/why) · [Sources](https://harzaviya.com/sources) · [Methodology](https://harzaviya.com/methodology) · [About](https://harzaviya.com/about) · [About the bot](https://harzaviya.com/about-bot) Trackers: [Gold prices](https://harzaviya.com/gold-prices) · [Fuel prices](https://harzaviya.com/fuel-prices) · [Stock exchange](https://harzaviya.com/stock-exchange) Any page on this site is available as markdown: send `Accept: text/markdown`, or add `.md` to the path.