PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Fifteen years ago, Hashim Thaci and Ivica Dacic were locked in an armed battle over the future of Kosovo: one as the leader of ethnic Albanian rebels fighting Serbia, the other as a close ally of Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic.

On Thursday, the two will meet in Brussels as the prime ministers of Kosovo and Serbia, highlighting the thawing relations between the former bitter foes.