Balkans

The US acknowledgment follows a report earlier this month that Athens formally requested to buy as many as 24 of the advanced fighter aircraft. The United States’ ambassador to Greece confirmed in a statement today that Athens has sought to purchase Lockheed Martin’s advanced F-35 fighter jet amid tensions with …

Millions of euros have been raised through appeals in Bosnia and Herzegovina to build wells and mosques in Africa, but concerns persist about suspect fundraising methods and claims that photographs documenting some charity-funded wells were faked.

Most of the money Serbia spends on Serbs in the rest of the former Yugoslavia goes to those in Bosnia and Montenegro, where Serbian influence is greatest.

“As far as I can remember, at least 50 prisoners were killed during the afternoon of November 19, 1991. I witnessed some of these killings.” These are the words of Ivan Gasparovic, one of the few witnesses to the crimes that were committed in the Croatian village of Dalj the …

Bulgaria’s government is talking tough on North Macedonia’s EU ambitions, but analysts and ordinary Bulgarians see it as an electoral ploy and are forging their own connections.

The cases of former Kosovo Liberation Army officials in The Hague should exert pressure on Serbia to prosecute its own former officials for war crimes in Kosovo, says Lotte Leicht of Human Rights Watch.

The Greek prime minister’s visit to the United Arab Emirates comes amid tensions both states have with Turkey. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) welcomed Greece’s head of government for an official visit today. The two states signed a foreign policy and defense agreement as their mutual tensions with Turkey in …

Turkey is touting its domestic defence industry, but its expansion remains dependent on Western know-how. Acall by Greece last month for its European Union partners to consider an arms embargo on Turkey in a standoff over maritime boundaries in the Eastern Mediterranean has highlighted the growing collaboration between the Turkish …

Twenty-five years ago, a peace deal crafted at a United States air base in Ohio ended the Bosnian war. Today, nobody likes it, but in a politically-divided country, agreement on any reform will be tough to reach. Some want it rewritten, smoothing Bosnia’s path to membership of the European Union. …

A Bulgarian startup has found remote work in the AI industry for hundreds of refugees in the Balkans and the Middle East. Two years into the Syrian war, in 2013, Shyar Ali fled his native Aleppo, ending up in a refugee camp in Iraq where he worked as a labourer …