Russia’s Red Army lunged last week across the Danube into Yugoslavia. British forces landed on the coasts of Albania, on the islands of Dalmatia, inched into Greece. From two sides of the Balkan ...

The Western Balkans are notoriously difficult to fathom. The evolving regional map of countries, borders, ethnicities and faiths is so complex that it requires more preparation to cover than other ...

West persistent in transforming Balkans into springboard against Russia - Lavrov MOSCOW, October 19. /TASS/. Unilaterally remaking the map of the Balkans should not be permitted, Russian Prime ...

The EU and its member states have taken a number of measures to address the migration situation on the Western Balkans route. The Western Balkans are at the heart of Europe, geographically surrounded ...

The House of European History falls into the familiar trap of portraying the Balkans as merely a source of violence and nationalism in the context of European history. Located in the ‘European ...

BIRN has published an updated and improved version of its War Crimes Verdicts Map, an interactive tool that offers an overview of hundreds of court rulings on the crimes committed during the 1990s ...

In the summer of 1920, the southeastern corner of Europe was a desperate place. Conflicts -- beginning with the First Balkan War in 1912, and continuing with World War I in 1914-18 -- had upended ...

Gazing across the green waters of the Drina, it appears as if you could step over the river without getting your shirt wet. Appearances can be deceptive, however. After a boat carrying migrants ...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov did not go to Belgrade on 6 June. Ordinarily, this would not be news: after all, Lavrov does not go to Belgrade on most days. But, on that particular date, he ...

More than a dozen people dead; tens of thousands of others evacuated;and thousands of hectares of land burning – this is the ‘titanic battle’ the Balkans is facing. Wildfires are currently raging in ...