On the ninth anniversary of the 2016 failed coup attempt, which the government says supporters of cleric Fethullah Gulen orchestrated, another 306 people were detained across the country.

A joint investigation by BIRN and Moldovan CU SENS sheds new light on the training camps run by Russian operatives in Bosnia and Serbia that Chisinau says were used to train Moldovans in ...

Bishops’ praise for World War II-era Serbian royalists and fascists causes outrage – and risks undermining the country’s progress towards EU membership, critics say.

The picturesque mountain village of Galicnik in North Macedonia this weekend hosted another memorable Galicnik Wedding – a public ceremony honouring cherished traditions that has become an ...

Catch up on the weekend’s most important developments with Balkan Insight’s digest of news from countries across the region.

The removal of the terms ‘Macedonian identity’ and ‘Macedonian language’ from the European Parliament’s progress report on North Macedonia has reheated a conflict the EU tried to cool down.

Locals blame red tape for their lack of documentation and claim they were encouraged to build cabins to promote tourism in their remote valley.

After the PKK began to disarm this month, Turkey said a ‘critical threshold’ had been crossed following decades of conflict. Those most affected by the fighting are still to be convinced, amid ...