PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Hashim Thaci, the former president of Kosovo who is facing war crime charges, was briefly released from a European Union-backed court on Thursday to visit his ill father.

The Western Balkans countries — Albania, Bosnia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia — are at different stages in their applications for EU membership. They have been frustrated by the slow ...

In his first trip to the once-volatile Western Balkans, Nato’s secretary-general underscored the alliance’s “steadfast ...

In 2024, women accounted for 22% of global security teams on average, compared to 17% in 2023, according to ISC2.

We, representatives of European civil society from across the continent, including the International Federation for Human ...

Albanian authorities said Thursday they were moving to shut down TikTok in the coming days, following through on a ban ...

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo’s Prime Minister Albin Kurti on Tuesday again refused to report to the Special Prosecutor’s ...

Let’s heal ourselves and others, including in our history the new generations. The opposite of forgetting is mnemonics — the ...

It is suspected the containers have toxic steel furnace dust collected from pollution control filters at an Albanian company and also illegally smuggled from Kosovo and Germany. “We are not even sure ...

But anyone who cares about religious freedom, the rights of minorities, and the rule of law should be highly skeptical of an independent Kosovo. Since 1999, when a NATO bombing campaign drove out Serb ...

In May 1999, as NATO was bombing Yugoslavia to force the Serbian regime to end its campaign of violence in Kosovo, prominent ethnic Albanian dissident academic Ukshin Hoti was released from jail ...

Albanian reports said up to a dozen people — none of them militants — were slain. The latest violence further hampered the chances of a negotiated solution to the future of Kosovo, where Albanians — ...