Balkan News

In closing arguments at the Srebrenica genocide retrial of former Bosnian Serb battalion commander Ostoja Stanisic, the prosecution demanded a long sentence while the defendant insisted he was innocent.

War veterans offered their backing after ethnic Albanian political representatives of Serbia’s Presevo Valley asked the Kosovo Assembly to support their demand for the area to become part of Kosovo.

Landon Tucker Davis, who was Donald Trump's presidential election campaign field director in the state of West Virginia, attended a campaign rally held by Bosnian Serb President Milorad Dodik's party.

A Romanian court ruled that a notorious hacker known as Guccifer will be extradited to serve a sentence in the US after he finishes his jail time in his home country.

The US State Department banned Bosnian Serb lawmaker Nikola Spiric and members of his immediate family from entering the US because of his alleged involvement in corruption.

Boyko Borissov has become well known for his grand ideas about regional infrastructure connectivity – but actual progress on them so far has been modest.

Romanians who lost loved ones in the 2015 Colectiv rock club fire expressed bitterness on Monday over the endless delays to the trial, the possibility of restarting the whole procedure – and the court's failure to replace a retired judge.

While Bosnia is gearing up for October elections, Serbia’s ruling politicians seem to be doing their best to aid Milorad Dodik’s campaign.

Advocates of territorial exchange as a solution to the Serbia-Kosovo dispute should remember that Bosnia’s de-facto partition, at Dayton in 1995, has failed to bring about true stability.

Police in Bosnian's Serb-led entity Republika Srpska on Monday said they had arrested a suspect over the attack on the journalist Vladimir Kovacevic who was assaulted on August 26. 

Former Croatian Defence Council commander Mensur Djakic was sentenced to two years in prison for not punishing the killer of three captured Serbs in the village of Bukvik in the Brcko District in 1992.

Victims’ rights groups condemned the attendance of convicted war criminal Mirko Norac at an anniversary commemoration of the Croatian Army’s 1993 ‘Medak Pocket’ operation.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic’s speech in Kosovo appeared to call for peace and reconciliation, but his coded nationalist rhetoric and praise for Slobodan Milosevic showed that the dream of a ‘Greater Serbia’ lives on.

A new book about Queen Elizabeth’s diplomacy recounts her desperate attempts to avoid having to meet Nicolae Ceausescu on his infamous state visit to London in 1978.

While Moldova's authorities have given only vague information about Sunday's car accident involving President Igor Dodon, some of his fellow Socialists insist someone was trying to kill him.

Few of the top politicians campaigning in Bosnia's general election campaign have made much attempt to mobilise supporters on either Facebook and Twitter.

A minister’s vendetta against a 76-year-old man has turned into a fiasco for Moldova’s authorities after the ECHR ruled in his favour. 

On his two-day visit to Kosovo, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic denied the two countries were near a solution to their dispute, and was prevented from visiting a Serb-majority village.

The upcoming general elections are likely to deliver an indecisive result in several key races – although the ruling bloc in Bosnia’s mainly Serb entity appears to be coasting towards victory.  

During her visit to Macedonia on Saturday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel voiced strong support for Macedonia’s efforts to ensure a successful referendum on the historic ‘name’ agreement with Greece.