Balkan News

Police said the 29-year-old suspect from Mitrovica in Kosovo attacked three people in the coastal city of Vlora while trying to kidnap them and shouting “Allahu Akbar”.

General Rumen Radev, the former commander of the Bulgarian air force, was nominated to run for president by the country's biggest opposition force, the Bulgarian Socialist Party.

Small villages in Albania’s isolated mountains are attracting tourists to family-run accommodation with the promise of spectacular views and a fascinating history – but modernisation could bring change.

Serbia will host Russian Army troops in two separate exercises in September and October - although its most frequent military training cooperation is still with the US.

Skopje’s modernist Paloma Bjanka business centre will be the latest in a series of buildings to be given a faux-baroque façade as part of the government-sponsored revamp of the Macedonian capital.

Despite Montenegro’s cooling relations with Moscow, every third foreign-run company in the tiny Adriatic country is owned by Russians, the state statistical agency said.

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Speaking in Pristina, US Vice-President Joe Biden said that Kosovo officials should work toward normalising relations with Serbia in order to make progress towards joining the EU.

Bosnian leaders approved the establishment of a coordination mechanism that should improve connections between all the country's administrative levels and the EU, a key measure sought by Brussels.

Migrants have increased attempts to illegally cross Macedonia on their way to EU countries since the ‘Balkan route’ was closed in March.

Mourad Hamyd, the brother-in-law of Charlie Hebdo attacker Cherif Kouachi, who was arrested in Bulgaria in July, will be extradited to France, where he is being investigated for alleged terrorism. 

The Serbian Progressive Party in Bosnia is trying to exploit the increasing popularity of Aleksandar Vucic to increase its support, but this may not help it win votes, an expert said.

US Vice-President Joseph Biden offered condolences to the families of 1999 NATO bombing victims and urged Serbia and Kosovo to resolve open issues during a visit to Belgrade.

Adem Grabovci, chief of Kosovo’s ruling parliamentary group, resigned on Tuesday following a series of anti-corruption protests in Pristina.

The Bosnian state prosecution has denied media reports that it has opened an investigation into former Croatian Army commander Ante Gotovina for alleged war crimes.

US Vice-President Joe Biden arrived in Belgrade for meetings with top officials expected to focus on Serbia’s EU membership ambitions and its relations with Kosovo and Russia.

Two top border police officials have resigned after а suspected people-smuggler won a public tender to transport migrants to accommodation centres inside the country.

FIFA’s decision to allow Kosovo to participate in the 2018 World Cup appears to have encouraged three Kosovo-born players from the Albanian national team to switch allegiance.

A proposal by Serbian Socialist Party politicians to build a monument to former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic has sparked an outburst of satirical criticism on Twitter.

Disputed claims that the Hague Tribunal said that Slobodan Milosevic was innocent are being trumpeted by Serbian ministers, but analysts believe they are trying to whitewash the country’s wartime past.