Many of these reporters and photographers broke their teeth in the Balkans during the 1990s, then spent the next three decades sending dispatches from datelines across Europe, from Africa to the ...

January 2, 2006: The head of UNMIK (UN operations in Kosovo) believes that 2006 will be an important year for Kosovo. That's because 2006 appears to be the year Kosovo's "final status" (either ...

The western Balkans, including Bosnia and Kosovo, were the scene of some of the bloodiest warfare and atrocities in Europe ...

The Libyan civil war of 2011 played out on many of the same battlefields where a century earlier Italians fought Turks and their Libyan allies. ... The First Balkan begat the Second Balkan War ...

At War Over the Balkans. By Patrick B. Pexton. August 1, 2001. Share. Save. ... and is refusing to commit more troops to help defuse the near-civil war in Macedonia.

About 2 million land mines were planted during Bosnia's civil war. The mine action center helped remove most of them. Only 120,000 remained in a 460-square-mile area, marked by some 25,000 signs.

The Second Balkan War, as already mentioned, was concluded by the treaty of Bucharest, a peace settlement brokered by a regional power, Romania, and devoid of great power input.

For a much bigger context on the history of conflict in the Balkans, watch this video's next part covering the 1990's ...

As Bosnia becomes increasingly unstable, the only chance of preventing a new civil war, which could expand to the rest of the Balkans, is more decisive steps by the EU and Nato.

British Foreign Secretary David Lammy sees Russian interference in the Balkans, he told Politico following a visit to the region. "At this time, with war in Europe and seeing the long hand of Russian ...

A 57-year-old man jailed in Pennsylvania mutilated a civilian during the civil wars that ravaged the Balkans ... Croatia seeks extradition of Jugoslav Vidić from Pennsylvania for 1991 war crimes.

The First Balkan War ended officially in May 1913. Bulgaria, however, was dissatisfied with the division of the spoils. The Second Balkan War erupted June 16, 1913.