Balkan News

Thousands of women participated in the wars in the former Yugoslavia, and a few have been convicted of brutal crimes, but female fighters’ role in the Balkan conflicts is often overlooked.

Nexy year's budget proposal contains plans for significant increases in Serbian army and police spending.

The mayor of the southern half of divided Mitrovica has called an urgent session on Friday to discuss reuniting the city – although such decisions do not lie in his competences.

The European Parliament adopted a resolution criticising Serbia for not accepting that the Srebrenica massacres carried out by Bosnian Serb forces were genocide.

European Parliament resolutions on five Balkan countries that have either opened accession negotations – or hope to do so – stressed the need to speed up reforms – while hailing Macedonia's potential breakthrough with Greece.

A year after six officials from the Bosnian Croat wartime statelet of Herzeg-Bosnia were convicted in The Hague, campaigners urged Croatia’s president to revoke the honours she awarded them before the verdict.

When migrants in northwest Bosnia began passing Lejla Samardzic’s house, she began photographing them, naming the series ‘The Migration Times’ – which she publishes daily on Twitter.

Appeals judges confirmed the acquittal of the former commander of the Bosnian Serb Interior Ministry’s special police brigade, Goran Saric, clearing him of involvement in the Srebrenica genocide in 1995.

Independent media in Moldova are at risk of marginalisation by party or oligarch-funded outlets that specialise in misinformation and fake news, a forum in Chinisau has heard.

Rampant illegal logging in Albania’s biggest national park is ravaging primeval woodland protected by UNESCO, a BIRN investigation reveals.

The European Union is already unhappy with the democratic backsliding in Moldova. Now the country’s opposition and some political experts are accusing the government of underhand tactics to sway an election in February.

What the 2006 film Karaula (The Border Post) tells us about the Yugoslav experiment and its bloody end.

The resignations of several Serbian mayors in the north of Kosovo have created a fresh spike in Serbia-Kosovo tensions – but some Serbian experts expect the crisis to de-escalate shortly.

Croatia faces a deadline to come up with a site to dispose of nuclear waste produced by the Krsko nuclear power plant, which is located in Slovenia and which it shares with that country.

A year after former Bosnian Croat military official Slobodan Praljak took poison in the Hague Tribunal courtroom, the anniversary of his death is being commemorated in Croatia and in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Thousands of people joined Wednesday’s anti-government march in the capital, organized by the main opposition VMRO DPMNE party, demanding the government's resignation.

The Appeals Court in Pristina ordered a second retrial for the owner of Kosovo’s Medicus clinic and his head anaesthetist, who were convicted in May of carrying out illegal transplant operations to sell kidneys.

Remarks about Schengen Area enlargement attributed to Manfred Weber have added to Romania's fears that it may be excluded from any planned expansion of the passport-free zone – with Bulgaria joining it alone.

The UN court in The Hague ruled that Serbian Radical Party leader Seselj cannot file an appeal against a second-instance verdict convicting him of the persecution of Croats in the Serbian village of Hrtkovci in 1992.

Non-ethnic party in Bosnia says it will challenge the latest attempt by an MP to change his national status – from Croat to Serb – to take advantage of the country's complex ethnic quota system.