Balkan News

Zdenko Grbavac, who is charged with persecuting Serbs in the Konjic area in 1992-93, left Bosnia and Herzegovina for Croatia after his release from custody, the prosecution said.

Montenegrin police briefly held four members of the Russian pro-Kremlin Night Wolves biker club who were accompanying the head of the Serbian Orthodox Church in the country.

US counterterrorism coordinator Nathan Sales is visiting Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania and Kosovo to discuss how to improve cooperation in fighting terrorism and prosecuting suspects.

Property prices are soaring in the Serbian capital – but the boom in luxury apartments is also causing concern about whether this trend is widening gaps in society, shutting poorer people out of the market.

The future of the cash-strapped aluminium plant in Mostar looks ever more uncertain, as unions warn of a strike if the Federation entity government does not step in again to sort out its finances.

At a time when the unity of global Orthodoxy is threatened by the battle over Ukrainian autocephaly, the Serbian Church should not take sides but defend its own interests.

Ministers said media misunderstood the prime minister's speech calling for national reconciliation, rejecting suggestions that this might mean an amnesty offer for last year’s parliament attackers.

After controversially likening Montenegro in July to a World War II Fascist state, politicians are calling on Serbia's Church leader to apologise during his latest visit to the country.

Kosovo PM Ramush Haradinaj on Monday sacked Bejtush Gashi as Interior Minister, apparently acting on the request of Gashi's own party, the Alliance New Kosovo, AKR.

After surviving a a no-confidence vote on Friday, Croatia's Health Minister on Monday received over 400 letters from women complaining about their experiences in the country's hospitals.

Retired generals Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markac, both acquitted of war crimes by the Hague Tribunal, attended what was billed as largest Croatian military exercises since the 1991-95 conflict.

The Bosnian prosecution charged ex-fighter Goran Mojovic with carrying out the demolition of the 16th Century Aladza mosque in Foca in August 1992.

Former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic asked the UN court to remove another judge from his appeal process for alleged bias, after the presiding judge stepped down from the case last month.

Albania’s Electronic and Postal Communications Authority has given 44 websites - including BIRN Albania’s Reporter.al outlet - a 72-hour deadline to register with tax officials or be shut down.

The Social Democrat-led government has adopted a decree limiting the President's authority in justice matters – and which will force out many younger prosecutors under new,  stricter work experience criteria.  

Bosnian Serb opposition leaders have joined the regular protests being held in Banja Luka over the unexplained death of 21-year-old David Dragicevic, demanding fresh elections.

The Romanian Orthodox Church has lost some of its credibility by supporting the failed referendum against gay marriage – but even now, its power should not be underestimated.

Twenty-seven years after dozens of Croats were killed by Serbian paramilitaries in the village of Vocin, 29 defendants will go on trial in Zagreb - but none of them will actually appear in court.

Macedonia’s parliament on Monday launches a plenary session on the proposed constitutional changes that would amend the country’s name – amid uncertainty about whether enough MPs will support the motion.

Thousands joined a peaceful protest on Saturday in the Croatian town of Vukovar to express their anger at Croatian institutions for their "silence" over war crimes committed during the 1990s war.