The First Balkan War marked a decisive collapse of Ottoman power in Europe as a loose regional alliance launched a ...

On Oct. 8, 1912, the tiny Kingdom of Montenegro declared war on a weakened Ottoman Empire, kicking off what is now known as the First Balkan War. Three other Balkan states in league with the ...

American intervention is often debated as if it were a single moral act, repeated across history with interchangeable results. It is not. The Balkans War vs Afghanistan offers a clearer comparative ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had reasons to be pleased after his recent Balkan tour. Visiting Albania on Oct. 10, 2024, Erdoğan promised to donate an unspecified number of kamikaze drones to ...

The Hague-based war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia handed down its most high-profile verdict yet, Thursday sentencing former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic to 40 years in jail after ...

Throughout Russia’s history, tsars looked for ways to dominate what they called the “near abroad” of their sprawling empire. In today’s world, President Vladimir Putin’s illegal invasion of ...

Whether behind bars, released or on the run, war criminals from the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s are finding channels to communicate, twist the truth and reintegrate via Facebook and mainstream media.

Some 30 years after the Balkan wars, Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina still grapple with the legacy of wartime leaders. Bosnian law forbids the "glorification" of war criminals, but is rarely enforced, ...

Conflict between Russia and the Ottoman Empire was a mainstay of the Eastern Mediterranean world for over one hundred and fifty years, a series of wars that are often addressed as part of broader ...

Throughout Russia’s history, tsars looked for ways to dominate what they called the “near abroad” of their sprawling empire. In today’s world, President Vladimir Putin’s illegal invasion of ...