In 2019, RFE/RL's Balkan Service marked 25 years of reporting in one of the world’s most contested regions, championing professionalism and moderation in a media landscape that is sharply divided along ethnic and partisan lines.
Serbian authorities say they have arrested 17 people in a crackdown on a crime syndicate linked to hooligans who support a Belgrade soccer club.
Kosovo and Israel have formally established diplomatic relations under a U.S.-brokered agreement that includes a pledge by the Muslim-majority Balkan country to open an embassy in Jerusalem.
A protest by Chinese workers at Serbia's Cukaru Peki copper and gold mines has raised questions about the living and working conditions at the site. Three workers who asked for their identities to be protected corresponded with RFE/RL's Balkan Service about their life in eastern Serbia.
Actress Milena Radulovic has gone public with rape allegations against a longtime fixture on the Belgrade cinematic scene, prompting a deluge of support and tough questions about Serbian society.
Kosovar election authorities have not verified the party lists of three parties in the upcoming parliamentary elections on February 14, potentially dashing former Prime Minister Albin Kurti’s bid of taking up the post again.
A former Bosnian Army commander has been sentenced to 10 years in prison on January 22 for failing to stop killings and torture carried out by Islamist volunteer fighters who joined his troops during Bosnia's 1992-1995 war.
North Macedonia’s lawmakers have passed a bill that could pave the way for the Balkan country to hold this spring its first census in almost 20 years.
Albania says it is expelling a Russian diplomat for allegedly violating lockdown rules aimed at stemming the spread of the coronavirus in the Adriatic country.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has joined a growing chorus of calls demanding that Bosnia-Herzegovina immediately provides “adequate, winterized” accommodation for hundreds of migrants and asylum seekers stranded in freezing temperatures in the country's northwest.
Montenegro's parliament has approved changes to a controversial law on religion that has dominated politics in the Balkan country for more than a year.
Dozens of international migrants in Bosnia-Herzegovina have taken to bathing in natural thermal spring waters to keep clean. They say the water at the spring in the town of Ilidza, near Sarajevo, is warmer than in the nearby Blazuj camp where they have been living.
Dozens of people in Kosovo gathered at a school close to a road named after President-elect Joe Biden’s late son, Beau, to express their gratitude for the incoming president's support. They held posters of the president-elect with the words "Thank you, America" at the gathering on January 20.
A court in Kosovo has acquitted former Prime Minister Agim Ceku and 11 other ex-government officials of misusing public money in welfare benefits to fake war veterans.
Hundreds of freelancers and online workers marched through central Belgrade on January 16 to protest a recent law that requires them to pay income taxes for the last five years. (RFE/RL's Balkan Service)
Cooking meals, cleaning, policing the streets, and burying the dead: These are just a few of the essential jobs whose demands never let up during the coronavirus crisis. RFE/RL's Balkan Service profiled some of the people who keep their communities functioning despite the risks to their own health.
Snow and low temperatures have brought more misery for migrants living in a makeshift camp in a forest above the town of Velika Kladusa in northwestern Bosnia-Herzegovina. They set up the camp because they say they have been denied access to an official temporary shelter for migrants in the area.
Heavy rains and snowfalls across the Balkans over the past several days have swamped roads, damaged buildings, and disrupted land and sea traffic.
Heavy rain and snow have brought devastating floods to thousands of hectares in western Kosovo. Thousands of households remain without drinking water because of contamination of reservoirs caused by the flooding, while many more are without electricity.
Part of the usually picturesque Drina River is awash with waste from illegal dumps, and authorities in Bosnia-Herzegovina are warning of an environmental disaster. The problem is caused by landfills upstream in Montenegro and has also caused mountains of trash on Serbia's Potpecko Lake.
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