The recent escalation in the Middle East has prompted heightened alert across the Balkans, with governments convening emergency security meetings, reinforcing protection at sensitive sites, issuing ...

On Oct. 8, 1912, the tiny Kingdom of Montenegro declared war on a weakened Ottoman Empire, kicking off what is now known as the First Balkan War. Three other Balkan states in league with the ...

Images from one of Greece’s darkest hours, the Kaisariani massacre, offered for sale eight decades later: within minutes, ...

February 21st marks the day in 1913 when Ioannina, the capital of Epirus in northwestern Greece, was liberated from the Ottoman troops.

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Workers were installing benches at a park in the ancient Greek port city of Thessaloniki when their excavator pushed brown soil off a fragile white skull. They turned off ...

Maja Mitic is Serbian. Zana Hoxha is Kosovar. Their adaptation of an ancient Greek tragedy highlights not so much the devastation war inflicts on women but women's capacity to heal and resist.

For centuries, Jews were an integral part of society in Thessaloniki, until the Holocaust all but wiped them out. Those who survived and returned found anti-Semitism did not disappear with the Nazis.