Sarajevo cameraman Sulejman Mulaomerovic recalls filming the killing of a 16-year-old Albanian girl in Kosovo in 1990 and the ripple-effects that followed. This post is also available in this language ...

Moscow would like its partner Aleksandar Vucic’s administration to remain in place – but as events in Venezuela and Syria have shown, its response to unwelcome upheavals is usually pragmatic. Donald ...

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Freight operators from Montenegro, Serbia, Bosnia and North Macedonia block goods traffic at border crossings, protesting over new EU EES rules that limit their stay in the Schengen area to 90 days ...

New changes to the Albanian criminal code that only partially abolish defamation as an offence have been criticised by media freedom organisations, citing concerns over freedom of speech. Albanian ...

A commemoration was held at the site of the Silos detention camp in Tarcin, where Serbs and Croats were imprisoned, beaten and abused during the war. This post is also available in this language: ...

Keen to show loyalty to the US president, some Balkan states signed up to Donald Trump’s contentious ‘Board of Peace’. Others, meanwhile, are looking to the US for new business partnerships instead of ...

Migrant workers from Africa have told BIRN about having to surrender their passports on arrival in Albania, working unpaid overtime and facing deportation once they are no longer required. Many are ...

Our reporters this week continued to look at what 2026 holds in store for the countries of Southeast Europe and the Balkans. Read more in our selection of Balkan Insight Premium stories. Moldovan ...

Ten Greek nationalist fighters are believed to have been with Bosnian Serb forces when they seized Srebrenica in July 1995. Greek prosecutors investigated, but the case was closed, fuelling continuing ...

Boban Tonic entered a not guilty plea at Pristina Basic court on Tuesday, where he is on trial for allegedly committing war crimes against ethnic Albanian prisoners held in the Lipljan/Ljipjane prison ...

While Albania’s Edi Rama welcomed an invitation to join Donald Trump’s proposed Board of Peace, Croatia, Slovenia, Romania and Greece merely confirmed that they had received invitations. United States ...