Balkaninsight.com

The Montenegrin government has unveiled sanctions against terrorist groups aimed at disrupting ISIS's and Al-Qaeda's financial, logistical and recruiting operations in the country.   

The case of Slobodan Gavric, jailed for 13 years in Kosovo for terrorism after being found with more than 12 kilos of high-grade explosives, raises as many questions as it answers.

A new report by the NGO Mjaft shows Albania's public institutions met their obligations to give public information on request in only 42 per cent of the cases.

Bulgaria's Prime Minister, on a visit to Iran, said Tehran had asked Bulgaria to join a new transport route running from the Persian Gulf to the Black Sea, bypassing Turkey.

US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland said she was encouraged that Macedonia’s warring politicians could soon chart a course towards free elections that would end the country's political crisis.

US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, on a brief stop-over in Tirana, has pushed a compromise proposal designed to end the stalement over judicial reform.

Thousands of people gathered in Srebrenica to mark the 21st anniversary of Europe’s worst atrocity since the Holocaust and bury 127 more Bosniak victims of the massacres.

The US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs has added her voice to calls for Kosovo's parliament to finalise the border demarcation deal with Montenegro.

The Bosnian state court and the Hague Tribunal have sentenced 38 people to a total of 637 years in prison - plus three life sentences - for the atrocities committed 21 years ago against Srebrenica’s Bosniaks.

The Kosovo-born UK pop star plans to include rhythms and sounds from her native country in her next record. 

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

The arrival of the Russian motorcycle club the Night Wolves in Bulgaria has highlighted the harsh divisions between pro-Russians and pro-Westerners in Bulgaria.

Serbia’s prime minister designate Aleksandar Vucic blamed Britain and Croatia for the EU’s delay in opening important negotiations with Belgrade on two chapters of European legislation.

Kosovo opposition MPs visited a border village close to Montenegro on Friday as the controversy over the border demarcation deal with Montenegro refuses to go away.

A Bulgarian judge said that a Bulgarian court five years ago refused to extradite the suspected brains behind the terrorist attack at Istanbul airport to Russia because he had obtained refugee status in Austria.

Croatian policeman Josip Reihl Kir, who was killed in 1991 in Osijek after trying to negotiate peace with local Serbs, is being commemorated as a symbol of peace in “times of madness”.

The newly-announced results of Bosnia's 2013 census highlight a dramatic overall fall in the population, as well as drastic changes in the ethnic composition of major cities.

Convicted war criminal Fikret Abdic, the former head of a separatist statelet, will run for mayor of the Velika Kladusa municipality in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina in local elections in October.

The Permanent Court of Arbitration said it would resume hearings on the dispute over territorial waters between Croatia and Slovenia - even though Croatia has pulled out of the process.

Judoka Champion Majlinda Kelmendi is hoping for a medal at Rio where she will represent Kosovo in the country’s first-ever Olympic Games.