Serbia plans to produce drones with the Israeli arms giant Elbit Systems, BIRN/Haaretz can reveal, despite the firm’s high-profile involvement in Israeli military operations in Gaza. In early March, ...

Opposition condemns lack of transparency after Foreign Minister reveals government is working behind closed doors to solve dispute with Bulgaria and unblock EU talks. North Macedonia’s Foreign ...

A Serbian national allegedly linked to Serbian intelligence – arrested recently while on holiday in Croatia – is accused of hacking into several major state institutions and agencies. Photo ...

Twenty members of Serbian forces indicted for war crimes in Gjakova/Djakovica in 1999 include the Kosovo Serb ‘kingpin’ Milan Radoicic, BIRN has learned. This post is also available in this language: ...

In March 1999, as Serbian forces expelled Kosovo Albanian families from their homes, Sali Morina and his wife had to carry three of their children, all suffering from muscular dystrophy, by hand to ...

Hundreds of firefighters on Monday battled to control a major wildfire in Greece – as the death toll among firefighters from recent blazes rose to five. Firefighters battle a wildfire in the wider ...

The two countries’ failure to maintain liaisons to the EU’s criminal justice agency – partly for political reasons – is a setback to vital cooperation against cross-border organised crime groups. In ...

Ahead of the opening of the new parliament, opposition calls on Kurti to compromise over decision making – unless he wants yet another election. LDK leader Lumir Abdixhiku (first left) and ...

Court orders 30 days of detention for Fehim Sali, who has reportedly admitted working for Serbia’s intelligence agency, the BIA, which allegedly paid him to identify other potential recruits.

Using wartime photographs provided by veteran photographers Zeljko Gasparovic and Stanko Feric, BIRN returned to the exact locations where they were taken to document how these places have changed ...

Authorities seize high-tech fentanyl lab on outskirts of capital capable of producing nearly ten kilos of the deadly drug daily. A screenshot from a video issued by Bulgaria’s General Directorate for ...

The mass incursion into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta showed would-be EU members how the European bloc responds to a genuine shock to its self-proclaimed values of ‘solidarity’. The weeks that bridge ...