Balkan News

Ex-soldier Nenad Przulj was found not guilty of crimes against humanity in the Sokolac area in 1992 and 1993, with the court ruling that he did not run a detention centre where Bosniak prisoners were abused.

President Hashim Thaci said he paid tribute at memorials to Serb war victims as a gesture of reconciliation and was not insulting Kosovo Albanians’ struggle for liberation during the 1990s conflict.

Belgrade’s Humanitarian Law Centre claimed in a new report that Serbian army and police officers were responsible for detaining Bosniaks and torturing them at prison camps in Serbia in 1995.

More than a thousand doctors, nurses and carers are leaving Bosnia and Herzegovina for Germany each year, with frightening implications for the country's own health service.

The attempt of the Social Democrat leader to name a little known Muslim woman as Romania’s next PM risks backfiring badly.

Police in Germany said they arrested two Kosovo-born brothers over an alleged plot to attack a huge shopping mall in the town of Oberhausen.

Defendants in the politically-charged Sopot case, in which ethnic Albanian villagers are accused of planting a mine that killed NATO soldiers in 2003, are hoping a new investigation will establish their innocence.

The longstanding head of the opposition Democratic Party Of Albanians, DPA, Menduh Thaci, has resigned as pary chief following dismal results in the December 11 election.

Orhan Jegeni is awaiting payment of 3.3 million euros that the Strasbourg court ordered his government to pay him in compensation for long-ago lost property.

A statue of former OSCE chief in Kosovo, William Walker, will be erected in the village of Recak/Racak, where he helped reveal the news of a massacre of ethnic Albanians by Serbian forces.

Military experts say Russia's 'gifts' of planes and tanks may turn out to be expensive for Serbia in the long run, as they are out of date and may require pricey adaptation.

Albanian political parties in Macedonia are mulling formation of a joint platform on key issues for the Albanian community as a precondition for participation in a new government.

Contrasting reactions to the conviction of Radovan Karadzic and to a Bosnian Serb referendum challenging the state’s authority contributed to a mood of political tension in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2016.

A look at a rich mix of themes from this week’s premium articles finds both worrying signs of crisis, some signs of calm thinking, as well as new winds in some of the different corners of the Balkans. 

Court declares in favour of controversial law that remained stalled for months and is considered crucial both for judicial reform and for setting a date for accession talks with EU. 

A Croatian medical team has made positive identifications of the remains of 20 Serbs who were killed during the war in Croatia in the 1990s.

At a meeting with Albanian President in Ankara, Erdogan again raised Turkey's demands for Albania to do more to investigate followers of the exiled Turkish cleric Fetullah Gulen. 

Global Terrorist Data, GTD, records a large number of terror attacks in the Balkans between 1970 and 2015, and carries reminder of how many cases remain unresolved.

Former policeman Nebojsa Mirovic was charged with involvement in detaining, torturing and beating dozens of Bosniaks from the Teslic area in the spring and summer of 1992.

Unions plan protests on Thursday in Banja Luka against cuts in public-sector salaries in Bosnia’s Serb-led entity, Republika Srpska - timed to coincide with MPs' discussion of the budget.