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Balkans

In this undated photo, trumpet player Will Magid performs at the Showbox Sodo venue in Seattle, Washington.
Music
‘Osmanity’: Ottoman Empire’s founder inspires a new album
Four men stand outside in a valley near a river bed
Small hydropower plants threaten Montenegro’s last free-flowing rivers in a bid for cleaner energy
Protesters carry a hand-painted sign.
Global Politics
Thousands in Serbia continue to march in nationwide, anti-government protests
A Kosovo police officer crosses the bridge that connects north and south Mitrovica. The Ibar River serves as a natural divider in Mitrovica, where Serbs live on the northern side of the river and Albanians on the southern side.
Culture
There is one place where Serbs and Albanians coexist in Kosovo — in the country’s version of Costco
A woman writes in a book inside a traveling monument called 'Prijedor 92' outside the Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal (ICTY
Conflict
What does justice in the former Yugoslavia look like 25 years later?
Jetmir Gjini used to grow marijuana -- lots of it. Now he and his family are back to herding sheep.
Economics
In Europe’s former pot capital, now the only grass is for sheep
DNA testing in The Hague
Justice
Cutting-edge DNA labs help identify people missing in conflicts and disasters
The team behind "Kosovo if Trump Wins" (from left) Fitim Krasniqi, Argjend Haxhiu and Kushtrim Krasniqi. All three are devout Muslims. They are also pro-American like most people in Kosovo.
Conflict
These Kosovo website creators treated Trump as a joke. Then he won.
Refugees and migrants try to warm themselves as they take a break at a gas station before abandoning their trek to the Hungarian border, in the town of Indjija, Serbia on Oct. 5.
Conflict
Refugees are still squeezing through Europe’s clamped borders
Radovan Karadzic
Conflict
20 years later, a genocide conviction for architect of the war in Bosnia
A migrant sits on her bags while waiting for a train in Presevo, Serbia.
Justice
No bathrooms. No heat. Aboard the decrepit refugee ‘cattle cars.’
Refugees on a private bus in Serbia en route to the border with Croatia.
Conflict
Some Serbians are doing a brisk business in private bus trips for refugees
Vitomir Spiric in his home in Phoenix.
Conflict
A Bosnian Serb in Phoenix says he’s been labeled a war criminal without ever being tried or convicted
A group of Serbian-speaking men have a leisurely lunch at the Q2 Café in Phoenix. The café, run by a Bosnian Serb refugee, aims to attract patrons from all parts of the former Yugoslavia.
Conflict
Brutal enemies 20 years ago, they’re learning to get along. In Phoenix.
The temporary monument "Pillar of Shame" in Berlin commemorated the 1995 mass murder in Srebrenica.
Justice
Serbia is finally seeking those responsible for the 1995 massacre in Srebrenica
The Digital Diplomat
Global Politics
Kosovo can’t get recognition from the UN, but it can get it from Facebook
Julian Assange
Global Scan
Remember WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange? If not, he’s got a T-shirt for you
Fans and players of Serbia and Albania clash during their Euro 2016 Group I qualifying soccer match at the FK Partizan stadium in Belgrade on October 14, 2014.
Sports
Soccer goes to war during a match between Serbia and Albania
Music Heard on Air
Music heard on the air for August 11, 2014
The Mexican Balkan music band, Polka Madre
Music
Why music from the Balkans is booming in Mexico
The Mexican Balkan music band, Polka Madre
Music
Why music from the Balkans is booming in Mexico
Why World War I still matters, 100 years after it began
Environment
The Balkans’ flooding is linked to climate change. And here’s how
A member of the rescue team carries a women as they leave her flooded house in Topcic Polje, near Zepce May 16, 2014. The heaviest rains and floods in 120 years have hit Bosnia and Serbia.
Environment
The worst flooding in a century in the Balkans is uncovering another menace — landmines
Arts, Culture & Media
Music heard on air December 17, 2013
Nebojsa Jovic is urging Serbs to boycott the Kosovo municipal elections. He says the government in Belgrade is betraying Serbs in Kosovo by telling them to vote.
Conflict & Justice
Serbs in Kosovo say Serbia is abandoning them. Again.
Global Politics
Serbian group takes cues from The Onion
Montenegrin town a beautiful melting pot with a surprising history
Grandson of North Korean leader makes waves by attending Bosnian high school
Richard Holbrooke’s legacy all over Afghanistan, Pakistan
Serbian military leader Ratko Mladic arrested: Survivors respond
War and peace: President Obama’s Nobel speech
Business, Economics and Jobs
Architecture for Humanity
The next trendy wine destination: Kosovo?
Global Politics
McCain foreign policy
Survivors Respond to Mladic Arrest
Kosovo Environment
Weekly Environmental News Wrap
Conflict & Justice
The man who wanted to save the world
Spy Fiction, Disco Revolution