Balkans
‘Osmanity': Ottoman Empire's founder inspires a new album
Trumpet player and ethnomusicologist Will Magid is the creative force behind the musical project Balkan Bump. He has a new album out Oct. 23 called "Osmanity."
Small hydropower plants threaten Montenegro's last free-flowing rivers in a bid for cleaner energy
Thousands in Serbia continue to march in nationwide, anti-government protests
There is one place where Serbs and Albanians coexist in Kosovo — in the country's version of Costco
What does justice in the former Yugoslavia look like 25 years later?
In Europe’s former pot capital, now the only grass is for sheep
The village of Lazarat, Albania, used to be notorious for its lucrative, but illegal marijuana business. Now that the government has cracked down on it, villagers struggle to make a living.
Cutting-edge DNA labs help identify people missing in conflicts and disasters
New technology, donated by the Dutch holding company Qiagen, enables scientists to better extract DNA from "even challenging bone samples. Ones that are decades old."
These Kosovo website creators treated Trump as a joke. Then he won.
The young Muslims behind the website “Kosovo if Trump Wins” hope a President Trump won’t weaken ties with their staunchly pro-American country, even if his campaign rhetoric suggests otherwise.
Refugees are still squeezing through Europe's clamped borders
Despite reports of closed borders in Europe, some refugees are still managing to find their way in — at a cost.
20 years later, a genocide conviction for architect of the war in Bosnia
He was trained as a psychiatrist, fancied himself a poet and was known for his flamboyant head of hair. Today he was convicted of genocide and sentenced to 40 years in prison.
No bathrooms. No heat. Aboard the decrepit refugee 'cattle cars.'
A bakery owner from Massachusetts used her vacation days to volunteer in a refugee transit camp. She slipped aboard one of the decrepit trains that take refugees from Macedonia to Serbia and this is what she saw.
Some Serbians are doing a brisk business in private bus trips for refugees
If you're a refugee trying to make it across Serbia, you can't take the train. So some enterprising Serbians are selling rides on private buses chartered for the seven-hour trip to Croatia.
A Bosnian Serb in Phoenix says he's been labeled a war criminal without ever being tried or convicted
Twenty years after the massacre at Srebrenica, the US aims to deport Bosnian immigrants suspected of involvement. But one Bosnian Serb facing deportation says he's been unfairly labeled a war criminal.
Brutal enemies 20 years ago, they're learning to get along. In Phoenix.
It's been 20 years since the Bosnian War, but some of the ethnic tensions that fueled that conflict live on among Bosnian refugees in Phoenix, Arizona.
Serbia is finally seeking those responsible for the 1995 massacre in Srebrenica
Serbian officials have arrested eight men suspected of having participated in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre. The killings took place in an area that the UN had declared a "safe zone."