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Bosnia Redux: Are the Balkans Headed for Another War? As a Serb strongman makes moves that could break up Bosnia, many in Europe fear a bloody replay of the ethnic strife of the 1990s.
After the Cold War ended in 1991, the Balkans became the home base of some large criminal gangs. While Albanian gangs get most of the publicity, they have plenty of competition from Serbian ...
The First Balkan begat the Second Balkan War (1913), and in the summer of 1914 the Balkan assassination of an Austrian archduke ignited a war that went global -- World War I.
Balkan Floods Expose Deadly Mines From 1990s Civil War : The Two-Way The Bosnia and Herzegovina Mine Action Center says a decade of work to reduce the danger from land mines has been washed away ...
His Defense Secretary is trying to pull more troops out of a still-unstable Bosnia, and is refusing to commit more troops to help defuse the near-civil war in Macedonia.
What were the Balkan Wars? The Balkan Wars were two separate wars, fought in rapid succession, in 1912 and 1913. In the First Balkan War, Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece, and Montenegro formed the Balkan ...
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 ...
As Bosnia becomes increasingly unstable, the only chance of preventing a new civil war, which could expand to the rest of the Balkans, is more decisive steps by the EU and Nato.
This episode explores the 6th-century migration of the Slavs into the Balkans, a pivotal moment that reshaped the region. From the collapse of Roman power to the rise of early Slavic proto-states ...
The First Balkan begat the Second Balkan War (1913), and in the summer of 1914 the Balkan assassination of an Austrian archduke ignited a war that went global -- World War I.
The Bosnia and Herzegovina Mine Action Center says a decade of work to reduce the danger from land mines has been washed away by the rising waters.