Russia and Ukraine, Israel and Hamas, trade wars between America’s friends and foes —  there has been no shortage of crises ...

Ever since Tito’s break with Russia, allied strategists have sought a way to fit Communist Yugoslavia into the pattern of Western defense. Last week, in a new Balkan Entente, the way was found.

That Montenegro, a NATO ally, can be thus captured by Russia reflects the failure of Western diplomats to resolve outstanding Balkan issues from the violent break-up of former Yugoslavia 30 years ago.

It was largely as an expression of this feeling that in 1934 four Balkan nations—Turkey, Yugoslavia, Greece and Rumania—formed the Balkan Entente. The Entente’s simple, appealing slogan ...

The president of Bosnia's autonomous Serb Republic defied rulings by the international envoy to Bosnia, whose role is to ...

The countries of the Western Balkans that emerged from the disintegration of Yugoslavia, as well as Albania, belong to Europe, and should be welcomed into the European Union. So far, the only one ...

The Western Balkans has long been perceived as Europe’s troublesome backyard. A source of instability and conflict, dismissed with a mixture of condescension and fatalism. Looking to history, ...

A 57-year-old man jailed in Pennsylvania mutilated a civilian during the civil wars that ravaged the Balkans in the 90s, ...

A Bosnia court on Wednesday sentenced Bosnian Serb separatist leader Milorad Dodik to one year in jail and ordered him to step down as president of the country's Serb-dominated region for six years ...

European Union enlargement commissioner Marta Kos has hailed Albania’s progress in the membership negotiations and as a “champion” of the regional cooperation ...