In 1944, Otto Skorzeny turned his attention to the Balkans, first attempting to capture Yugoslav partisan leader Josip Broz ...

Stefan Wolff is a past recipient of grant funding from the Natural Environment Research Council of the UK, the United States Institute of Peace, the Economic and Social Research Council of the UK, the ...

In just 30 seconds, we use Google Earth to visualize the entire course of World War II. From the initial invasions to the ...

Novak Stjepanovic was sentenced to 13 years in prison in Serbia for war crimes in Bosnia in 1992, but he had already skipped the country to join Russian forces fighting in Ukraine, a BIRN ...

Across every ring, Russia is applying pressure. Europe is already in conflict; not future, not theoretical, but present and continuous. Russia’s hybrid campaign against Europe since the full-scale ...

David Nasaw thinks we owe Brokaw’s (and Ambrose’s and Spielberg’s) tale-telling and its legacy a second, and much more gimlet ...

For more than a year European officials have warned that the Balkan state of Bosnia and Herzegovina is on the brink of a crisis threatening the stability of south-eastern Europe. Now a group of US ...

The EU and Western Balkans meeting, chaired by President António Costa, provided an opportunity to demonstrate and reconfirm the strength of the EU-Western Balkans strategic relationship and the ...

The Western Balkans is heavily impacted by migration: nearly 25% of its citizens live abroad. To address labor shortages and emigration, countries need coordinated national policies and stronger ...

A diplomatic row with Japan over Taiwan has China turning to Britain and France for support, appealing to their shared history as wartime allies. By David Pierson Reporting from Hong Kong China’s ...

Arbenita Muhaxheri has spent most of her life wondering what happened to her mother after she was stopped at a Serbian checkpoint in 1999 during the Kosovo war. A deal agreed a year ago to expedite ...

The Museum of Strategic Missile Forces tells the story of how Ukraine dismantled its nuclear weapons arsenal after ...