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Sixteen years old when his father handed over their house for the underground schooling of Kosovo Albanian children, Fadil Aliu has written a book celebrating the contribution of the parallel ...

MPs in both Kosovo and Albania on Thursday adopted declarations in support of the four former guerilla KLA leaders, including Thaci, whose trial for war crimes in The Hague is coming to an end. This ...

Kosovo ex-President Hashim Thaci's defence said during closing statements at his trial that the prosecution had not proved his responsibility for war crimes and crimes against humanity. This post is ...

In closing statements, prosecutors said that ex-president Hashim Thaci and three others on trial must be held responsible for war crimes that lower-ranking Kosovo Liberation Army members committed.

As Transparency International releases its latest corruption perception index, the watchdog’s Lidija Prokic tells BIRN that anti-graft drives have faltered across the Western Balkans – in Serbia ...

Has someone posted sexually explicit images of you online without your consent? We would like to hear from women and men in Greece who are willing to help our upcoming investigation into image-based ...

Awaiting trial on graft charges, Tirana mayor Erion Veliaj has fought hard to maintain his position after the Albanian government tried to dismiss him – but how is the city being governed while he’s ...

The shootings of six people connected to an environmental activist group and a ‘spiritual’ adventure-tour guide, with no surviving witnesses, have led to the case being dubbed ‘the Bulgarian Twin ...

In closing statements at the trial of former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci and three others, prosecutors demanded 45 years in prison for each of them, based on the 'gravity' of the war-crimes charges ...

A court in Chinsinau convicted three Moldovan citizens of participating in Russian-led training camps in Bosnia and Serbia in 2024 in order to incite unrest and disrupt elections at home. A judge at ...

BIRN’s second Reporting House museum in Pristina tells the stories of Kosovo Albanians who found refuge in North Macedonia after Serbian forces deported them on trains in 1999. This post is also ...