By Stefan Slavković If someone had told Franjo Tuđman (the late Croatian president) back then that, at the end of 2025, the ...

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — A #MeToo-like movement is sweeping the strongly patriarchal Western Balkans and activists hope there will be no turning back. It started with a chilling account of alleged rape ...

A new report by the Belgrade-based Humanitarian Law Centre said thousands of Serb refugees during the 1990s wars in Croatia and Bosnia were arrested in Serbia, taken back to the conflict zones and ...

Twenty-five years after the Croatian Army operation that sparked a mass exodus of Serbs from the country, Croatian Serb women spoke to BIRN about their memories of escaping, and how the experience ...

I remember lying in a grey hospital bed in Travnik, Bosnia, barely able to walk and formulate coherent sentences, with IV fluid being pumped into my tiny body. My father hovered above me, hoping the ...

BELGRADE (Reuters) - Serbia lodged a diplomatic protest on Thursday after Croatia's foreign minister was quoted as saying it was "an historical perversion" for Belgrade to claim the right to judge war ...

A small but growing number of Chinese nationals are travelling to the Balkans with the hope of reaching the European Union, and smugglers and local governments have taken notice.