In the First Balkan War, Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece, and Montenegro formed the Balkan League and fought against the Ottoman empire. Montenegro, the smallest of these states, declared war against the ...

While most Europeans viewed the region as a cultural and economic backwater, the Balkans played an outsized role in continental diplomacy, as Europe’s Great Powers vied for favor by selling arms ...

In the first of our Balkan Cold Cases series, BIRN examines whether justice was ever done. In an interview with BIRN, chief UN war crimes prosecutor Serge Brammertz warns that enduring divisions ...