Balkans

Erdogan could force Finland’s and Sweden’s NATO bids to the wire—and perhaps beyond.

Pro-Russian nationalists are close to taking power in Sofia. Washington can weaken them by offering recognition of North Macedonia’s nationhood.

He is the one unsavory character the West urgently needs better relations with.

Nearly 4 million refugees are caught in the crossfire of Ankara’s heated domestic politics.

Sarajevo’s hopes of NATO accession are growing as London steps in.

Intensifying conflict with the Kurdish armed movement in Iraq and Syria will likely improve his chances of reelection.

Central Europe and the Balkans expose the failures of European integration.

Belgrade’s purchase of FK-3 air defense systems from Beijing marks a shift in Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic’s diplomatic and defense policy.

Europe’s energy dealer is playing hardball.

It has been the world’s bloodiest body of water since the Cold War—and not just because of Ukraine.

The Serbian president’s anti-Western propaganda is coming back to haunt him.

Moscow is creating a pretext for further meddling in Bosnia.

Turkey’s president is seizing on Europe’s crisis to establish his own country’s independent power.

Albright embodied the good America stood for in the 1990s among my generation of Bosnians.

With its economy in a tailspin, Turkey is repairing ties with former enemies in the region.

Ankara faces growing pressure to pick sides between Kyiv and Moscow.

Though rape is one of the most commonly perpetrated war crimes, it is rarely considered by international courts.