Regional conflicts such as Gaza and Ukraine, along with tensions between the US and China, Israel and Iran and Russia and NATO, remind us of the volatile prelude to WWI when local conflicts spiraled ...

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 ...

Letters: We failed to stop war in the Balkans, so why are we repeating this with Gaza? People in Sarajevo pray at the monuments that commemorate the 1,601 children killed during the siege of 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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

WW1 soldier's remains found on French building site Ministry of Defence The service on Wednesday was attended by Serjeant Henry Ashton's family Dan Hunt ...

Life in 1990s former Yugoslavia was a nightmare of war, economic collapse and an all-powerful mafia.