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Almost 30 years ago, Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic trained and directed militias that committed some of the worst atrocities of the post-Cold War era. In the Balkan wars, their militias are ...

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At Fort Irwin in the Mojave Desert, soldiers train for war on foreign soil; a new book details how calculus rocked world history; musician Jordi Savall explores the music of the Balkans.

Many Balkan historians, not all of them admirers of Mr Milosevic, detect a whiff of hypocrisy in the disdain which people in settled and prosperous parts of Europe now accord to old-fashioned ...

More than two decades since NATO went to war to stop ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, the Balkan region is on edge again. Escalating tensions between Kosovo’s government and the country’s ethnic ...

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Though parts of the Balkan region have blossomed into popular tourist sites for Europeans since the civil strife of the 1990s ended, the countries that once comprised Yugoslavia are still viewed ...

Thousands of Russians have fled their country, with many arriving in culturally similar Serbia, but the Vucic government appears to be cracking down on anti-Putin sentiments.

BERLIN — Ratko Mladic, a former Serb warlord who commanded forces that carried out some of the worst atrocities of the Balkan wars, was found guilty of genocide and other crimes against humanity ...

There were many comparisons made between the Balkan War, which came to an end 30 years after the signing of the Dayton Peace Accords, and the current conflict in Ukraine.