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Croatia's plans to build a radioactive-waste site near the Bosnian border are causing tension with its neighbour.

Early marriages remain a key factor causing Roma schoolgirls to drop out, but economic problems, migration and a lack of good schools also play a major role, a new UNICEF study says.

A first Iranian oil shipment will arrive in Romania soon as the country takes advantage of the lifting of international sanctions against Tehran.

Our team brings you live updates of the most important events and developments in the Balkans as they happen.

Legal gaps and administrative problems make life difficult for Macedonian trans-gender people who want to formalize their change of sex.

People in Bosnia's Serb-dominated entity feel increasingly frustrated by the relentless bickering and manoeuvring of the two main political blocs.

Over 3,000 buildings expropriated during WWII will be handed over to Serbia's main Jewish organisation after parliament adopted a law on the restitution of Holocaust victims' assets.

Following a rush of interest from potential buyers all over the world, Albania's Defence Ministry has decided it needs more time to decide when to sell its stock of old military planes.

Albania has become the unlikely home of hundreds of exiled Iranian ‘mujahedin’ who arrived under a secret agreement and have struggled to adapt.

Montenegro and Bosnia are to sign an agreement shortly on sharing diplomatic representation as part of a bid by both countries to cut embassy costs.

Top expert praises call for Croatia to borrow German model of appointing constitutional court judges - but says such an outcome is unlikely in the current atmosphere.

New rules being enforced in the Balkan corridor dramatically slashed the number of migrants passing through Macedonia and Serbia on their way to Western Europe.

Macedonia is not ready for fair elections on April 24, the EU and US said on Sunday, advising a postponement of the pre-term polls that are intended to end the country’s political crisis.

Two of those who took part in the historic uprising of 1991 believe the legacy of Albania’s dictatorial and undemocratic past still shapes the present.

Two kidnapped Serbian embassy employees were killed Friday in an American air strike on an ISIS compound in Libya, Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said.

US ambassador voices 'disgust' with the opposition MPs who disrupted the Kosovo parliament's first session in 2016 with more tear gas and stunts.

The office of the Ombudsman on Friday condemned as illegal the demolition of several Roma homes by the construction inspectorate to clear way for a new road.

Special units of the police of Republika Srpska will be trained in Russia from where the government of the entity is keen to buy military equipment, the Ministry of Interior said.

Tomislav Duic, who was convicted of war crimes against Serb civilian prisoners in the Croatian military prison camp Lora in Split, was captured after 11 years on the run.

Edin Sakoc, a former member of the Croatian Defence Council, was extradited to Bosnia and Herzegovina to face charges of rape and murder in Pocitelj and Capljina during wartime.