Huge crowds are expected to gather at the Srebrenica Memorial Centre on Saturday as Bosnia marks the 31st anniversary of the 1995 genocide and buries ten newly identified victims. This post is also ...

Prime Minister Edi Rama claims the daily protests shaking Tirana are misguided or manipulated from outside. BIRN spoke with some of the most dedicated protesters to find out more about their hopes for ...

In Ankara for the NATO summit, President Trump announces end of sanctions against Turkey – and greenlights fighter jet sales to the country. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan welcomes US ...

Hague judges turned down a request for early release from Radislav Krstic, wartime commander of the Bosnian Serb Army’s Drina Corps, who is serving 35 years in prison for aiding and abetting the ...

More than three decades after the peace deal that ended the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Armin Graca's photographs and materials found in archives show how the former frontline still has an impact ...

Well-known LGBTQ+ activist and visual artist who gave a voice and visibility to trans people in a time of repression has died of cancer in Athens. Paola Revenioti. Photo: Paola Revenioti/Facebook.

A government minister is proposing to close the commission that discloses people’s ties to communist-era security services. Opponents say this is an attempt to ensure old crimes are forgotten.

Thousands have joined the annual Peace March to the Srebrenica Memorial Centre, marking the 31st anniversary of the 1995 genocide of Bosniaks by Bosnian Serb forces. More than 6,000 people on ...

The statistics show that perpetrators of environmental crime in Montenegro can expect to get away with it. In October 2024, a court in Bijelo Polje, northeastern Montenegro, convicted a man of ...

Decision to again postpone verdict in trial of ex-President Hashim Thaci and three others – to September 16 – draws furious criticism in Kosovo, with critics calling it 'unjust' and 'humiliating'.

Individuals acquitted of war crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina have received far more money in compensation than the survivors of war crimes. The latter wait for decades and often never receive ...

From limited cooperation from other countries to prolonged delays in proceedings, an OSCE report outlines the issues that Kosovo's justice system continues to face in the adjudication of war crime ...