New Macedonian Foreign Affairs Minister Nikola Poposki is expected in Sofia September 1 on a visit that it is hoped will warm up tense relation between the two neighbors. The first international visits of Minister Poposki will be in the Balkan countries of Croatia, Bulgaria, Serbia and Montenegro.

The Turkish military says 100 PKK members have been killed, while more than 80 others have been wounded during air and artillery strikes in northern Iraq. Up to 100 members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, have been killed in raids conducted by the Turkish military in northern …

Serbian Minister for Kosovo Goran Bogdanović said on Wednesday that Serbia will continue to perform its functions in the north of Kosovo and Metohija. The country “will not give up on its institutions in that territory”, the minister was quoted as saying.