Balkans

Walking a winding path inside a thick oak forest at the border between Serbia and Croatia, Jiyan Ali cannot believe his misfortune...

Austria wants not only to crimp the influx of migrants pouring into Europe but to fully stop it

The not-quite-“M.A.S.H.” movie, “A Perfect Day,” is kind of like a macabre Dr. Seuss rhyme (improv'd Seuss-like poem): “My hat is off. My rope is old. I have a corpse I like to hold.” Snap! Plummet! Splash! “And now my story is all told.”

The deeply-divided leaders of the European Union have been called to an emergency summit Wednesday to seek long-term responses to the continent’s ballooning migrant crisis

Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz spoke on the sidelines of a Western Balkans conference that is primarily focused on ways of getting a grip on the migrant influx that threatens to overwhelm some countries while leaving others relatively unaffected

Record numbers of migrants and refugees fleeing violence and poverty in countries such as Syria, Afghanistan and Eritrea are trying to reach Europe

Hungary has begun building a fence on the country’s southern border with Serbia, meant to stem the unprecedented flow of migrants

Hungary’s plans to build a fence along the border with Serbia to stop a flow of migrants reaching the country

Modern relations between Bulgaria and Russia began about two centuries ago when Russia sought geopolitical advantages in the Balkans and strategic access to the Turkish Straits. Russia positioned herself as a guardian of Balkan Orthodox Christians in the Ottoman Empire, which included the people in latterday Bulgaria. With linguistic similarities also in common, the Russians became supporters of the 19th-century Bulgarian liberation movement against the Ottoman rule.

The U.S. and an international monitoring agency report irregularities in Kosovo’s parliamentary elections, but the opposition party claims fraud