Many people in Bosnia and Herzegovina are self-isolating at home to protect themselves from the coronavirus, but migrants and refugees living in squatted buildings and tent camps are more vulnerable...

A court in the city of Split convicted two former Bosnian Croat fighters of committing war crimes against Bosniak civilians and prisoners of war who were held in detention camps...

An attempt to create a Serbian branch of the far-right Generation Identity failed, but the country remains central to the movement’s ‘great replacement’ narrative.

They have friends in high places and a stranglehold over the private security industry.

Bratislav Zivkovic has made no secret of his ties to Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, but prosecutors in Serbia dropped an investigation against him.

Serbs carried out combat and counter-intelligence missions for several pro-Russia paramilitary units including the notorious Wagner group of mercenaries, BIRN has learned.

Terrorism trials involving Balkan Islamists show that many of these individuals were either indoctrinated by – or had close links to – radicalised communities in Germany, Austria and Italy.