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Five men have been arrested on suspicion of having committed war crimes against Bosniaks in the Bosanski Novi area in 1992 - a move which has infuriated the Bosnian Serb authorities.

Deal to appoint ministers from one party and deputies from another is coming unstuck as each vetoes the other’s decisions - creating chaos in government.

Former Croatian Defence Council fighter Ivan Zelenika was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison for the inhumane treatment of Bosniak civilian detainees in Mostar during wartime.

The authorities have exhumed 56 bodies of Serbs who died during the Croatian Army’s Operation Storm in August 1995 from a mass grave in the Gornje Seliste municipality.

As the government-sponsored revamp of the Macedonian capital continues, BIRN’s ongoing investigation shows that the price tag for Skopje 2014 now exceeds €633 million.

Former fighters Milorad Radakovic and Goran Pejic were charged with crimes against humanity for killing five members of the same family in Tukovi in the Prijedor municipality in June 1992.

Mysterious gun attack on the man behind nationalist websites in both Croatia and Serbia is being linked by some to his loss-making business ventures.

Opposition parties in Republika Srpska have walked out of the entity's national assembly in a row over the appointment of the deputy speaker.

Serbia’s state security agency said two of its former officers should not testify in public at the trial for the 1999 murder of journalist Slavko Curuvija, an opponent of Slobodan Milosevic.

Ever since Bratislav Gasic was appointed Defence Minster, he has been surrounded by controversy about his education, his family business, the army helicopter crash - and now a sexist remark.

Amid growing concern about the arms flow from the region, police in Montenegro say they have reinforced security along the border to prevent arms smuggling.

In the first such case in Romania, anti-terrorist prosecutors are investigating a teenage convert to Islam for allegedly sharing jihadist propaganda online.

As Bosnian Serb parties unite in defiance of the Constitutional Court, the Serbian Democratic Party, SDS, says it will present a draft law on excluding the three foreign judges.

As the media privatization process nears completion in Serbia, journalist associations predict that the changes will not benefit the industry.

DPC Senior Associate Bodo Weber blames Western interference for the deadlock in Kosovo - and warns that it may be too late for a peaceful resolution.

At the trial of Ratko Mladic, the prosecution challenged Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik’s claims that the persecution of Muslims and Croats was not a Serb wartime goal.

A series of political and policing controversies show the Serbian police service remains subject to unwarranted political influence, analysts claim.

Opposition rally in Tirana turns violent after mob attacks symbolic bunker erected in the heart of the ministerial complex - and stone windows of government buildings. 

Police in Kosovo arrested two more opposition MPs on Tuesday in connection to tear gas incidents in the assembly - bringing the total of arrested opposition MPs to seven.

Weapons exported from Bosnia and Serbia in 2005 and 2006 may have ended up in Isis's hands, according to a new report.