Animals were used in World War I on a scale never before seen -- and never again repeated. Horses by the millions were put in service as cavalry mounts and beasts of burden, but they were not the ...

Regional conflicts such as Gaza and Ukraine, along with tensions between the US and China, Israel and Iran and Russia and ...

World War I “colored everything that came before and shadowed everything that followed.” The assassinations, which Austria-Hungary blamed on Serbia, led to an ultimatum being delivered to the Serbian ...

June 28th and 29th are dates that echo through the corridors of history.One of the most impactful events in global history ...

Muslims from the Caucasus who joined the Wehrmacht – The 845th German-Arab Infantry Battalion and Its actions in Greece – ...

When Tirana mayor and Socialist Party rising star Erion Veliaj was arrested on corruption charges, he lashed out against the judiciary. Now he’s running a social media PR campaign to charm the ...

Temperatures soared across the Balkans on Thursday, with parts of the region expected to hit 41 degrees Celsius (106 Fahrenheit), triggering heatwave health warnings. Meteorologists in Bosnia ...

With illegal immigration a fraught issue in Europe and the US, Western countries are increasingly kicking the political football over to the Balkans. But questions are building over whether the ...

In October last year a shipment of containers with suspected hazardous waste were returned to Albania. But prosecutors have not yet managed to analyse their contents because they say they are ...

On June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary, was assassinated in Sarajevo. To the Western powers, the killing appeared of little consequence and ...

Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary, was assassinated in Sarajevo. To the Western powers, the killing appeared of little consequence and was dismissed as ...

People braving an early summer heatwave sought relief in lakes and mountains across the Balkans this week, as health authorities urged residents to stay in the shade and drink plenty of fluids to ...