The former Yugoslavia was a Socialist state created after German occupation in World War II and a bitter civil war. A federation of six republics, it brought together Serbs, Croats, Bosnian ...

Many of these reporters and photographers broke their teeth in the Balkans during the 1990s, then spent the next three decades sending dispatches from datelines across Europe, from Africa to the ...

The Libyan civil war of 2011 played out on many of the same battlefields where a century earlier Italians fought Turks and their Libyan allies. ... The First Balkan begat the Second Balkan War ...

At War Over the Balkans. By Patrick B. Pexton. August 1, 2001. Share. Save. ... and is refusing to commit more troops to help defuse the near-civil war in Macedonia.

About 2 million land mines were planted during Bosnia's civil war. The mine action center helped remove most of them. Only 120,000 remained in a 460-square-mile area, marked by some 25,000 signs.

January 2, 2006: The head of UNMIK (UN operations in Kosovo) believes that 2006 will be an important year for Kosovo. That's because 2006 appears to be the year Kosovo's "final status" (either ...

A FEW months after NATO's air war against Yugoslavia in 1999, a senior American policymaker made a prediction about the Balkans. For the previous decade, he said, the main challenge to western ...

The First Balkan War ended officially in May 1913. Bulgaria, however, was dissatisfied with the division of the spoils. The Second Balkan War erupted June 16, 1913.

Bosnia and Serbia are struggling to recover from the worst flooding in a century, after three months of rain fell in just three days in the Balkan countries. At least 40 people have died in Bosnia ...

Bosnia and Serbia are struggling to recover fromthe worst flooding in a century, after three months of rain fell in just three days in the Balkan countries. At least 40 people have died in Bosnia, ...