A 2024 comment from the NGO described the Western Balkans region as ‘awash’ with weapons, fuelling violence domestically and abroad. “Criminals and civilians alike continue to have access to ...

Axel Rudakubana, who killed three girls in a stabbing spree at a dance class, was obsessed with violence but had no known ...

The risk of renewed violence and political instability is growing in the Balkans. The decade of progress in postconflict reconciliation and economic recovery after the U.S.-led interventions of ...

The Balkan violence of the 1990s has run its course. With democratic governments in all of the former Yugoslav republics and regionwide ambitions to join the European Union (EU) and North Atlantic ...

Their journeys take them through pine forests and snow-covered mountains, along railway tracks and roads that lead to a hoped ...

Tens of thousands of protesters led by university students have held a noisy rally outside Serbia’s state television ...

The shootings have fueled concerns about the level of violence in Montenegrin society ... widespread illegal possession of weapons in the Balkan country of some 620,000 people.

Ethnic violence is back in the Balkans. And once again, it has taken the West by surprise. This time the focal point is northern Kosovo, the region north of the... The recent brouhaha in the ...

New domestic violence legislation toughens penalties but opposition MPs and civil society groups say it relies too much on punishment rather than prevention. The Greek parliament in Athens ...