Catch up on the weekend’s most important developments with Balkan Insight’s digest of news from countries across the region.

They are Muslims like the majority of Kosovo Albanians, and speak a similar language to Serbs, but Kosovo’s minority Bosniaks have encountered discrimination, violence and poverty as they ...

A BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina documentary about the experiences of a wartime detention camp inmate whose family was killed while he was imprisoned was premiered in Sarajevo.

As the 30th anniversary of the start of the siege of Sarajevo is commemorated, a new book showcases posters from the 1992-95 Bosnian war, explaining how graphic design was used for resistance ...

Migrant workers from Africa have told BIRN about having to surrender their passports on arrival in Albania, working unpaid overtime and facing deportation once they are no longer required. Many ...

The state court accepted a plea from Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik, who was sentenced to a year in prison and given a six-year ban on holding political office, to convert his jail term to a fine ...

France’s top constitutional court has blocked the reintroduction of a toxic pesticide. Should it be banned in Europe?

Court orders a month's detention for Ramadan Morina, who is suspected of taking part in massacre of 34 Kosovo Albanians in Burim in 1999 alongside Serbian forces.

A US-Kosovo security agreement would represent a win-win for both states - and would suit Donald Trump’s transactional approach to foreign policy.

As the tradition in Bosnia and Herzegovina goes, instead of fireworks, the country welcomes the new year with another political dispute – this time, over the impending verdict in the trial of ...

The US State Department’s annual human rights report said Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik undermined Bosnia and Herzegovina’s constitutional order while Bosnian Serb leaders used ...

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