The Croatian government plans to enlist men for two months and the Serbian government for 75 days. Authorities in both countries plan to start recruiting in 2025
Hundreds of thousands of troops are at risk of suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder when they return from the front and the Kremlin has no support network in place
The memberships of six nations from the region have been stalled for years. But after Russia’s war on Ukraine, EU officials are more keen on trying to lure them away from the Kremlin’s influence
The process for the six Western Balkan nations that have been seeking EU entry was stalled for years but Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has rekindled the prospects
The Bosnian Serb pro-Russia leader Milorad Dodik’s government plans to hold a celebration of a controversial national holiday that Bosnia’s top court has declared unlawful
The public in Bosnia and in the wider region was brutally shaken into reality in August, when a woman in the town of Gradacac was shot in the head by her former partner, in a live video on Instagram
In a book, the journalist Taina Tervonen recounts the endless search for those who disappeared during the conflict, through a forensic anthropologist and a researcher