STORY: Shemsi Gara spent 30 years digging in a Kosovo coal mine, churning up toxic dust that got into his airways. Outside of the mine, local coal-burning power plants spewed fumes over his village.

The EU said on Tuesday it was concerned about the situation on the route migrants are taking through the west Balkans and is making plans to deal with a possible humanitarian crisis. "We are concerned ...

Framed by rolling hills and farmhouses, the emerald waters of Potpecko lake were once a picturesque fishing spot in western Serbia. But recently, the smell itself was enough to turn away visitors from ...

OBILIC, Kosovo/BELGRADE (Reuters) - For 30 years, Shemsi Gara operated a giant digger in a Kosovo coal mine, churning up toxic dust that covered his face and got into his airways. Home life wasn't ...

While the coronavirus pandemic preoccupies Washington, the Trump administration is inadvertantly stoking a new conflict in the Balkans. In a hastened effort to forge a settlement between Serbia and ...

Air pollution protestors in Bosnia-Herzegovina make their voices heard. Much of the Balkans region is suffering from poor air quality, with many pointing the finger at Chinese investment in ...

While the Middle East threatens to make the Balkans ‘last week’s crisis’, the region continues to bubble away with more problems than local and international mediators can seemingly juggle. Much of ...

As winter grips the Balkans, the poor are caught in a cruel bind, being forced to light fires at home for heating while fuelling a pollution crisis smothering the region. The region is home to several ...

HORGOS, Serbia (AP) — Afghan migrant Zaher Rajawi can't believe his bad luck. He's stuck only a few short steps from European Union soil in a Balkan refugee camp that is gradually turning into a ...

BRUSSELSBRUSSELS — Leaders from the Western Balkans expressed frustration Thursday that they are still waiting in the European Union’s wings even as candidacy bids by Ukraine and Moldova were swiftly ...

Anthropologists agree that the first people that we know for sure settled in the Balkans area that at various times has been called Yugoslavia were Illyrians, an Indo-European collection of tribes.