The United Nations envoy to Kosovo has warned of apparently "deteriorating" relations between the territory's Serb minority and ethnic Albanian majority.
The international envoy to Bosnia-Herzegovina says divisions among the country's Muslim, Serb, and Croat ethnic groups is continuing to stall reforms in the Balkans country.
The annual European Union progress reports on membership hopefuls, adopted by the European Commission today, paint a largely depressing picture. Out of nine countries, only Croatia emerges with a realistic chance of joining the EU in the foreseeable future. All of its neighbors in the western Balkans fail key EU tests and conditions, as does Turkey.
A Serbian ultranationalist group has responded to the government's increased reward for information leading to the capture of war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic by offering to pay for information about anyone who betrays Mladic.
On November 4, 19 years after the Serbian army marched to Vukovar, Croatia, Serbian President Boris Tadic came to Vukovar and laid a wreath at the Ovcara memorial, which honors 260 Croats slain there by Serbian forces. But is a wreath enough?
Serbian President Boris Tadic is visiting Croatia on a trip designed to help heal the wounds that still exist from Croatia's war of independence from Yugoslavia.
A 5.3-magnitude earthquake rocked central Serbia overnight, killing at least two people and causing dozens of injuries and damage to buildings.
With EU membership off the table for the foreseeable future, Turkey is looking eastward, forging new relationships with erstwhile foes like Iran and Syria. Many U.S. politicians are campaigning with renewed vigor for Washington to welcome a rising Turkey, as an ideal mediator between East and West.
Serbian President Boris Tadic is due to visit a wartime atrocity site in Croatia this week to pay respects to Croat hospital patients killed by Serb forces during the 1991 war.
The government of Serbia is now offering an award of 10 million euros -- a tenfold increase from the previous amount -- for information leading to the capture of wartime Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic.
Europe’s youngest country could prove that it is a fully functioning state capable of working through such situations in a peaceful, orderly manner. Over the long run, this momentum could result in greater stability for Kosovo, though it may be hard to see that just now.
Serbia has inched closer to starting membership talks with the European Union after the bloc's ministers took a procedural step that has been withheld in recent months. But the EU also warned Belgrade that further progress will hinge on its efforts to apprehend Ratko Mladic, the wartime Bosnian Serb general who is wanted for genocide.
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