The bronze effigy of the late communist dictator Enver Hoxha is hidden in the basement of an Albanian museum that was destroyed after 1991 (AFP/Getty) Swaddled in straw on the dirt floor of a stable, ...

LABINOT MAL, Albania — Swaddled in straw on the dirt floor of a stable, the once omnipotent dictator lies helpless on his back. His face specked with bird droppings, he stares blankly at the sagging ...

MOUNT SHPIRAG, Albania (Reuters) - It took Sheme Filja 10 days and an army of villagers to paint the name "ENVER" on the side of Albania's Mount Shpirag in 1968, in tribute to then communist dictator ...

To her enemies, Nexhmije Hoxha, who has died aged 99, was known as the Lady Macbeth of Albania, the sinister hidden hand in the 40-year Stalinist regime headed by her husband, Enver Hoxha, until his ...