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• Feb. 22: People stand by a car destroyed in Thursday's riots as they check the damage on a building in Belgrade, Serbia. Police on Friday guarded the U.S. and other Western embassies damaged in massive rioting overnight in the Serbian capital in which one person died and 100 were injured.
• Feb. 22: A woman passes by a car destroyed in Thursday's riots as people look on at the damage on a building in Belgrade, Serbia.
• Feb. 22: A man inspects the damage in the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade, Serbia.
• Feb. 22: Riot police officers stand in front of the Croatian Embassy in Belgrade, Serbia.
• Feb. 22: A municipal employee clears the entrance of U.S. Embassy in Belgrade, Serbia.
• Feb. 22: A girl passes by a damaged plaque outside the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade, Serbia.
• Feb. 22: Riot police stand in front of the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade, Serbia.
• Feb. 21: The U.S. Embassy in Belgrade is shown on fire after masked attackers broke into the building and set it on fire amid a massive protest against Western-backed Kosovo independence in the Serbian capital.
• Feb. 21: The U.S. Embassy in Belgrade burns after masked attackers, seen in window at right waving a Serbian flag, broke into the building and set an office on fire at the end of a massive protest against Western-backed Kosovo independence in the Serbian capital.
• Feb. 21: The U.S. Embassy in Belgrade burns after masked attackers broke into the building and set an office on fire at the end of a massive protest against Western-backed Kosovo independence in the Serbian capital.
• Feb. 21: The U.S. Embassy in Belgrade burns after masked attackers broke into the building and set an office on fire at the end of a massive protest against Western-backed Kosovo independence in the Serbian capital.
• Feb. 21: The U.S. Embassy in Belgrade burns after masked attackers broke into the building and set an office on fire at the end of a massive protest against Western-backed Kosovo independence in the Serbian capital.
• Feb. 21: The U.S. Embassy in Belgrade burns after masked attackers broke into the building and set an office on fire at the end of a massive protest against Western-backed Kosovo independence, in the Serbian capital.
• Feb. 21: Ethnic Albanian Adem Mripa gives a thumbs-up gesture while he is being detained by Kosovo police after finding three rocket-propelled grenades in his house in the Albanian neighborhood of Serb-dominated ethnically divided town of Kosovska Mitrovica.
• Feb. 21: Some 1,000 Bosnian Serb students protest against the independence of Kosovo in front of the University in the Bosnian Serb-controlled eastern Sarajevo.
• Feb. 21: A Bosnian Serb youth throws a rock as a group of Bosnian Serb youths attempt to get closer to a U.S. Embassy office during a protest against Kosovo's declaration of independence at the main square in the Bosnian town of the Banja Luka, 75 miles northwest of the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo.
• Feb. 21: A man is covered by a Serbian flag as Kosovo Serb students mock the murder of international law during a protest rally in the ethnically divided town of Kosvska Mitrovica.
• Feb. 21: A Serb demonstrator carrying a Serb flag is covered in black smoke from burning tires in the Merdare border crossing between Serbia and Kosovo.
• Feb. 21: A Serb demonstrator waves a Serbian flag in front of a cordon of Kosovo police wearing riot gear and helmets in the Merdare border crossing between Serbia and Kosovo.
• Feb. 21: A Serb protester holds stones in front of smoke from burning tires during a protest in the Merdare border crossing between Serbia and Kosovo.
• Feb. 21: A Kosovo police officer stands guard at the Merdare border crossing between Serbia and Kosovo.
• Feb. 21: Czech troops from KFOR prepare to reinforce Kosovo units during a Serb protest at the Merdare border crossing between Serbia and Kosovo.
• Feb. 21: Czech NATO soldiers put on riot gear as they face demonstrators chanting ‘Kosovo is ours! Kosovo is Serbia!’ throwing rocks and burning tires at the checkpoint in Merdare, about 30 miles northeast of Kosovo's capital, Pristina.
• Feb. 21: Serb protesters, background, face Kosovo police wearing riot gear and helmets, foreground, at the Merdare border crossing between Serbia and Kosovo.
• Feb. 21: Bosnian Serb youths wave Serbian flags as they shout slogans during a protest against Kosovo's declaration of independence at the main square in the Bosnian town of the Banja Luka, 75 miles northwest of the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo.
• Feb. 21: Bosnian Serb youths wave a Serbian flag as they shout slogans during a protest against Kosovo's declaration of independence at the main square in the Bosnian town of the Banja Luka, 75 miles northwest of the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo.
• Feb. 21: Serbs gather in front of the National Assembly building during a rally to protest Kosovo's independence in Belgrade, Serbia.
• Feb. 21: KFOR soldiers from the United States stand guard on a hilltop in one of the Albanian enclaves of Kosovo's Serb-dominated part near Cernja, Kosovo.
• Feb. 21: A Kosovar Albanian boy looks at KFOR soldiers from the United States guarding one of the Albanian enclaves of Kosovo's Serb-dominated part in Cernja, Kosovo.
• Feb. 21: A girl with the word ‘Kosovo’ written on her face in Serbian cyrillic letters attends a rally against Kosovo's independence in Belgrade, Serbia.
• Feb. 21: Serbs gather in front of the National Assembly building during a rally against Kosovo's independence in Belgrade, Serbia.
• Feb. 21: Protesters wave Serbian flags during a mass protest rally against Kosovo's declaration of independence in Belgrade, Serbia.
• Feb. 21: Serbs gather in front of the National Assembly building during a rally against Kosovo's independence in Belgrade, Serbia.
• Feb. 21: Protesters wave Serbian flags during a mass protest rally against Kosovo's declaration of independence in Belgrade, Serbia.
• Feb. 21: Protesters set an American flag on fire during a mass protest rally against Kosovo's declaration of independence in Belgrade, Serbia.
• Feb. 21: Kosovo Serb students show their three fingers, a Serb nationalist sign, and display a poster showing President Bush while protesting Kosovo's independence in the ethnically divided town of Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovo.
• Feb. 21: Kosovo Serb students display posters showing President Bush while protesting Kosovo's independence in the ethnically divided town of Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovo.
• Feb. 21: Masked Serb students protest Kosovo's independence in the ethnically divided town of Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovo.
• Feb. 21: Protesters wave Serbian flags during a mass rally against Kosovo's declaration of independence in Belgrade, Serbia.
• Feb. 21: Serbs gather in front of the National Assembly building during a rally against Kosovo's independence in Belgrade, Serbia.
• Feb. 21: Serb students protest Kosovo's independence in the ethnically divided town of Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovo.
• Feb. 21: Serb students protest Kosovo's independence in the ethnically divided town of Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovo.
• Feb. 21: Protesters set an American flag on fire during a mass rally against Kosovo's declaration of independence in Belgrade, Serbia.
• Feb. 21: Protesters shout slogans during a mass rally against Kosovo's declaration of independence in Belgrade, Serbia.
• Feb. 21: A Serb student wearing a T-shirt depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin leads demonstrators protesting Kosovo's independence in the ethnically divided town of Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovo.
• Feb. 21: A protester flashes three fingers, the Serbian nationalist sign, during a mass protest rally against Kosovo's declaration of independence in Belgrade, Serbia.
• Feb. 21: A Serb student wearing a Tee-shirt depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin raises a Serbian flag while protesting Kosovo's independence in the ethnically divided town of Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovo.
• Feb. 21: Serbian Radical Party leader Tomislav Nikolic speaks during a mass rally against Kosovo's declaration of independence in Belgrade, Serbia.
• Feb. 21: A protester shouts slogans during a mass protest rally against Kosovo's declaration of independence in Belgrade, Serbia.
• Feb. 21: Protesters flash three fingers, the Serbian Orthodox sign, during a mass protest rally against Kosovo's declaration of independence in Belgrade, Serbia.
• Feb. 21: A man displays the Serbian flag on the police station in the Serb side of the ethnically divided town of Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovo.
• Feb. 21: Protesters flash three fingers, the Serbian nationalist sign, during a mass protest rally against Kosovo's declaration of independence in Belgrade, Serbia.
• Feb. 21: Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica, left, and Republika Srpska Prime Minister Milorad Dodik wave during a mass rally against Kosovo's declaration of independence in Belgrade, Serbia.
• Feb. 21: Protesters attend a mass protest rally against Kosovo's declaration of independence in Belgrade, Serbia.
• Feb. 21: A Polish KFOR police officer watches a Kosovo Serb bus crossing through a United Nations checkpoint, recently demolished and burnt by angry Kosovo Serbs, in the village of Jarinje on the Serbia-Kosovo border.
• Feb. 21: A protester holds a picture of war crimes fugitive Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic, left, during a mass protest against Kosovo's declaration of independence in Belgrade, Serbia.
• Feb. 21: Czech NATO soldiers in riot gear provide additional security as Serb protesters, not seen, face Kosovo police at the Merdare border crossing between Serbia and Kosovo.
• Feb. 21: A protester holds a picture of war crimes fugitive Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic during a mass protest rally against Kosovo's declaration of independence in Belgrade, Serbia. At least 150,000 Serbs gathered in central Belgrade, raising fears of street violence.