State court upholds verdict sentencing Slavisa Djeric to three years’ jail and Nenad Ujic to four, for the inhumane treatment of civilians detained in Rogatica in 1995. This post is also available in ...

Their chances of settling in the United States increasingly bleak, a growing number of Chinese nationals are travelling visa-free to Serbia or Bosnia and Herzegovina and crossing into the European ...

The shootings of six people connected to an environmental activist group and a ‘spiritual’ adventure-tour guide, with no surviving witnesses, have led to the case being dubbed ‘the Bulgarian Twin ...

In contrast to the months of political wrangling last year, Kosovo’s parliament cleanly elected Albulena Haxhiu from the election-winning Vetevendosje party as speaker. Albulena Haxhiu takes over the ...

As beaches, historic sites and natural beauties in Croatia, Montenegro, Albania, Greece and Turkey draw increasing numbers of tourists, governments eye bumper profits – though experts warn that ...

‘They send people to their deaths,’ Bosnian recruit Selver Hrustic says of the Russian army in an interview in his Ukrainian prison cell, where he’s being held as a prisoner of war. For Selver Hrustic ...

BIRN’s second Reporting House museum in Pristina tells the stories of Kosovo Albanians who found refuge in North Macedonia after Serbian forces deported them on trains in 1999. This post is also ...

Has someone posted sexually explicit images of you online without your consent? We would like to hear from women and men in Greece who are willing to help our upcoming investigation into image-based ...

After Milorad Dodik insulted Bosniaks during the election campaign for the Republika Srpska presidency, he called them ‘enemies’ – among other insults – in a speech celebrating his ally’s victory.

Thousands of Bulgarians on Wednesday called for reforms and voiced frustration with political corruption – especially targeting the MRF – New Beginning leader and sanctioned oligarch Delyan Peevski.

Kosovo ex-President Hashim Thaci's defence said during closing statements at his trial that the prosecution had not proved his responsibility for war crimes and crimes against humanity. This post is ...

As Serbia’s EU integration minister, Nemanja Starovic, climbed the ruling party ladder, his sister simultaneously benefitted from more than 200,000 euros worth of public tenders and grants. In ...