Hearings start for one of the most notorious cases in the country’s history, seeking responsibility for the devastating March 16 fire that killed 63 mostly young people. Defendants together with the ...

Authorities in Istanbul seize crypto asset company in Turkey - home to one of the largest cryptocurrency markets - as well as 15 other companies suspected of laundering the assets of criminals. Photo ...

Mayor Erion Veliaj looks on course to continue governing the city from his jail cell – after the Constitutional Court annulled his dismissal and PM Edi Rama said he will not call early elections in ...

Serb journalists in Kosovo face death threats, abuse and harassment online if they are perceived to veer too far from official Serbian policy.

Mayor Erion Veliaj looks on course to continue governing the city from his jail cell – after the Constitutional Court annulled his dismissal and PM Edi Rama said he will not call early elections in ...

Lawsuit accuses unknown administrators of a Facebook page of falsely showing the minister urging citizens to invest in "high-yield" schemes.

BIRN’s analysis of the situation in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia shows how mainstream politicians and other prominent public figures have used ...

Veterans of the Dutch UN peacekeeping battalion deployed in Srebrenica remember how they were left powerless to prevent the genocide of Bosniaks by Bosnian Serb forces in July 1995 - and how the ...

Bosnia and Herzegovina’s top international official, High Representative Valentin Inzko, used his power to impose amendments to the country’s criminal code to ban the denial of genocide and the ...

A bilingual Serbian and Arabic speaker went from translating for migrants and refugees to smuggling them over borders and taking down rivals with the help of police officers on his payroll. This post ...

Tough new bill introducing fines and prison terms for illegal migrants draws condemnation from opposition parties and human rights organisations. Refugees and migrants walk towards the port authority ...

From the BIRN archives: After the death of nationalist leader Milosevic in 2006 while he was on trial for war crimes, Gordana Igric explained how he was not the only man responsible for the malign ...