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A prosecution witness said she was told that her husband, one of former Bosnian Army commander Naser Oric’s alleged victims, was shot through the mouth in a trench.

In order to prevent potential unrest, the trial of a Serb victims’ association leader for inciting hatred by describing the Srebrenica genocide as “God’s justice” will be held behind closed doors.

Angered over his role in the controversial border demarcation deal with Montenegro, Vetevendosje activists threw paint at a senior official's car in Pristina on Friday.

Prime Minister Tihomir Oreskovic has called on his two quarrelling Vice Prime Ministers, Tomislav Karamarko and Bozo Petrov, to step down in order to stabilize the country.

US State Department report says Balkan states showed mixed results in countering terrorism in 2015, most of the problems being down to a lack of resources and overlapping jurisdictions.

After months of disputes, Serbia said it has struck a deal on opening talks on Chapter 23 and 24 in its EU accession talks.

Croatian culture minister Zlatko Hasanbegovic has admitted that he took part in demonstrations in Zagreb in the late 1990s alongside pro-fascists who attacked peaceful activists.

BIRN’s award-winning documentary The Unidentified, investigating the commanders responsible for some of the most brutal attacks of the Kosovo war, was shown in Pristina for a second time.

A YouTube audio recording released on Thursday claims that Macedonia’s former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski has been seeking advice from an astrologist.

The government has agreed to offer a reward for fresh information on the murder of the promiment Montenegrin Dusko Jovanovic who was killed 12 years ago.

The Prime Minister's abrupt cancellation of a government session on Thursday has fuelled speculation that the unstable coalition could collapse at any moment.

Serbia’s Commissioner for Information of Public Importance has fined the Fund for Pension and Disability Insurance for not disclosing information on the President and Prime Minister.

More than 20 years after the end of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, tourists visiting Sarajevo are most interested in the city’s siege, the longest in modern history.

Montenegro marks the tenth anniversary of its independence in 2006, still facing old divisions between supporters and opponents of the former union with Serbia.

The failure of right-wing parties to unite - and one-round elections - are both factors pointing towards a likely victory by the left-wing Social Democrats in Sunday's local elections.

Ethnic Albanian party leader Ali Ahmeti told BIRN that calls to federalise Macedonia are impractical, and dismissed claims that his DUI is a poodle of the ruling VMRO DPMNE.

Hot on the heels of claims that minors were abused in a local orphanage, prosecutors allege that staff of a care centre subjected mentally disabled inmates to serious violence.

Bosnian meat producers anticipate new business opportunities in Turkey, after the authorities in Ankara agreed to buy around 6,000 tons of meat from the country.

No-confidence motion in Croatian Vice-Prime Minister has potential to provoke early elections, which will also delay key reforms dealing with the budget deficit, experts warn.

Kadri Veseli, head of the ruling PDK, said Kosovo will implement controversial agreements with Montenegro and on creating an association of Serb-majority municipalities.