TIRANA, Albania — Built in the 1980s to commemorate a dead tyrant in Pharaonic style, the concrete and glass pyramid in the center of Albania’s capital, Tirana, was falling apart by the time ...

Prime Minister Edi Rama says he wants to give members of the Bektashi, a Shiite Sufi order, their own Vatican-style enclave as a way of promoting religious tolerance.

Dutch architecture studio MVRDV has added a stepped roof and bright-coloured boxes to a former museum dedicated to Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha in the centre of Tirana, Albania.

Tirana is becoming an unlikely hotspot for offbeat architecture as politicians court high-profile foreign architects to transform the Albanian capital into a "world city". Starr Charles reports.

Home of a dictator: The home of Albania's communist former leader Enver Hoxha in central Tirana. Hoxha's Cold War paranoia led to the construction of hundreds of thousands of bunkers across the ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, French President Emmanuel Macron and UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer joined European leaders, including EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and ...

Protest in Tirana at Albanian government's TikTok ban Elona Elezi in Tirana 03/17/2025 Young people in Tirana on Saturday protested the government's decision to shut down TikTok for a year.

Attendant monks help put a microphone around Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama's head during his 90th birthday ...

Albania will create a sovereign Muslim state in Tirana for the Bektashi religious order, along the lines of the Vatican in Rome, to preserve and promote religious tolerance, Prime Minister Edi ...