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The US deported a former Bosnian Serb military officer and his wife to Serbia after they were convicted of lying about the man’s activities in the 1992-95 war to gain immigration benefits.

Parliament chief Tsetska Tsacheva could be become the first female president of Bulgaria after being nominated by PM Boyko Borissov, who said she should be the ‘mother’ of the nation.

Five people who were convicted of war crimes, corruption, kidnapping and abuse of office have been elected as mayors in municipal polls in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The speaker of parliament and leader of Albania’s third-largest party previously served as prime minister aged just 30, but Meta’s rapid political ascent has been marred by controversy.

The BIRN journalist who has received various death threats since being labelled an enemy spy and a foreign mercenary is in no mood to back down.

Two months ahead of the general elections, the opposition has dismissed the ruling party's list of campaign pledges - which include hefty pension rises and hundreds of new kindergartens - as fairytales.

War victims are launching an appeal in The Hague, calling for the Netherlands to be held responsible for the deaths of all the Bosniaks from Srebrenica who were killed in July 1995.

Kosovo on Monday refused to allow Marko Djuric, head of the Serbian government’s Kosovo office, into the country, having ordered him out in September for breaking the protocol on Serbian official visits.

After the Serbian daily Politika said it would reinstate its sacked caricaturist, Dusan Petricic, following the PM's intervention, a media union says this only highlights the government's close relationship to the media.

Viktor Orban’s failure to bring out of the voters in his slanted referendum on migrants suggests that the anti-migrant backlash may have passed its peak.

The Alliance of Independent Social Democrats, SNSD, the ruling party in the Serb-dominated entity, Republika Srpska, has regained its dominant position following local elections.

Bosnia’s local elections delivered a surprise in Srebrenica, where a Serb is expected to replace a Bosniak as mayor for the first time since the 1995 massacres, if confirmed by final results.

Hungary's anti-migrant referendum on Sunday may have 'failed' - but Budapest's opposition to EU migrant quotas is still likely to boost the hand of xenophobes in the region and beyond.

Our team brings you live updates of the most important events and developments in the Balkans as they happen.

With the old 'Balkan route' all but closed to migrants and refugees, there are concerns that Albania might become part of the new, preferred route leading into the EU.

Kristalina Georgieva, who has replaced UNESCO director Irina Bokova as Bulgaria's candidate for the UN top job, will appear before the UN General Assembly on Monday to answer questions about her qualifications for the post.

Macedonia's ruling VMRO DPMNE party has declined to answer questions about a recent media investigation, which suggested it has become one of the richest parties in Europe.

Montenegro's chief negotiator with Brussels, Aleksandar Andrija Pejovic, tells BIRN that Britain’s exit from the EU will not slow the region’s own path towards membership.

The protection of witnesses testifying about the Kosovo war has long been a major challenge, but the new Hague-based Kosovo specialist court believes it can succeed where others failed.

Ahead of the release of the results, the two main parties representing Serbs and Bosniaks claimed major victories in the entities their communities dominate.