Few world regions are more culturally and politically complex than the Balkans.
Officials in Italy’s southern Puglia region Thursday demanded a more concerted response to a lesser-known organized crime syndicate, the day after gunmen...
Swaths of southern and eastern Europe sweltered in temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius Friday in a heat wave nicknamed “Lucifer” that has fanned forest...
Descending beneath the waves, the cloudy first few meters quickly give way to clear waters and an astonishing sight – dozens, perhaps hundreds, of tightly...
The West and Russia are battling for control of the transport of natural gas through the Balkans, as both sides pursue their geopolitical agenda in the...
Italy’s plan to reduce the risk of a militant-inspired attack is pinned in small part on El Hacmi Mimoun, an imam who bikes to the prison here every week and...
Trebisht in northeastern Albania looks like a ghost village, emptied of its residents by a rush to get Bulgarian passports that open the door to the European...
In the rugged, herb-scented mountains of northwestern Greece, where the border with Albania is a snaking invisible line, trouble is brewing over tea – the...
A self-proclaimed commander of Albanians fighting with ISIS in Syria and Iraq, notorious at home in Kosovo for a video showing him beheading a man, has been...
Tiny Montenegro will take a huge step toward integrating with the West when it becomes the 29th member of NATO this week, but it risks paying a heavy price...
Cetinje, Montenegro, April 28, 2017 (AFP) - Montenegro's parliament formally approved the country's accession to NATO on Friday, despite a boycott by...
Brazil was hit hardest on Thursday by FIFA for homophobic chanting by its supporters during World Cup qualifying, with Argentina and Mexico also fined
Kosovo authorities Friday said they had discovered plans to attack senior officials and political leaders, and urged law enforcement forces increase...
Albania's opposition parties said Monday they plan to hold a national protest in a western city that is holding local elections, a possible warning that they...
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has asked Donald Trump's administration not to encourage other EU-member countries to leave the bloc or "a...
Veteran goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon is set to play his 1,000th senior game on Friday when Italy host Albania in a World Cup qualifier.
He's known as the 'Rooster' with the insatiable appetite for goals, and Albania coach Gianni Di Biasi, for one, will be hoping Italy sensation Andrea Belotti...
Italy defender Leonardo Bonucci has missed a national team training session with the flu, three days before the Azzurri's World Cup qualifier against Albania.
Kosovo coach Albert Bunjaki has called up three new players for the World Cup qualifying match against Iceland.
Strikers Manolo Gabbiadini and Federico Bernardeschi have been ruled out of Italy's internationals against Albania and the Netherlands due to injury, the...