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Bosnian police arrested two terrorism suspects and found weapons and ammunition during two separate raids on Tuesday in the capital Sarajevo.

A Sarajevo court found former Bosnian Serb Army serviceman Djordje Simic not guilty of crimes against humanity, clearing him of killing a Bosniak man in the village of Sevarlije in 1992.

A 1990s battalion of the Croatian Defence Forces, named after a WWII Ustasa commander, commemorated its foundation in the city of Split by chanting the fascist slogan ‘Za dom spremni’.

Boyko Borissov PM of Bulgaria, which currently holds the EU Council presidency, said in Bosnia that the country could be politically paralysed if its ethnic blocs cannot agree on electoral reform before this year’s elections.

Serbian nationalist hardliner Vojislav Seselj, whose verdict is due on Wednesday, has repeatedly shown off his disdain for the UN war crimes tribunal and has been convicted of contempt of court three times.

Citing Russia as the cause, Moldova wants to form a professional army, but some experts flag cost as a potential obstacle.

While Macedonia and Greece work on finding a compromise to the name dispute, the prospect of their success has rekindled old antagonisms between Macedonians and Greeks living far from home.

Judges handing down this week’s second-instance verdict in the trial of Vojislav Seselj have to decide whether the Serbian Radical Party leader’s nationalist speeches inspired Serb paramilitaries to commit crimes.

The Bosnian court will hear an appeal next month against the war crimes acquittal of the Bosnian Army’s former commander in Srebrenica, Naser Oric, who was cleared of killing Serb captives.

Presidents and prime ministers from Bulgaria, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia are visiting the Bosnian town of Mostar for the 21st International Economy Fair, aiming to boost regional business cooperation.

Sarajevo-born Vojislav Seselj – who was a vociferous Communist until he embraced a nationalist ‘Greater Serbia’ ideology and went to war – faces judgment in The Hague this week for alleged crimes against humanity.

As an especially divisive and brutal autumn election approaches, the dismal state of the country’s highly partisan media is of growing concern to experts and observers.

The country now has its first foreign-affairs strategy since 2003, but the document only highlights sharp domestic differences on controversial topics ranging from NATO to Russia.  

Serbia's information commissioner, NGOs, and experts have criticised a draft law that they say will make it easier for institutions and companies to withhold important information from the public.

A member of Macedonia's ruling ethnic Albanian party, the Democratic Union for Integration, DUI, was shot dead on Thursday in the village of Mala Recica near the western town of Tetovo.

The pugnacious president of Bosnia's Serb-dominated entity may now be best known for his staunchly pro-Russian views – but he was once seen the West's best hope among the Bosnian Serbs.

From an international egg-tapping contest to folk dancing, Easter offers fine opportunities to explore lesser-known parts of Serbia.

Romania’s biggest airport is to be temporarily closed to big planes while the runways are fixed, after an incident exposed its poor infrastructure. 

Hungary’s Victor Orban and Serbia’s Aleksandar Vucic are not interested in rectifying past injustices but in trading mutual benefits.

Macedonia opposition MPs are to return to parliament after a four-month boycott for a no-confidence vote against the government, and to vote on several key EU-sought reform bills.