Rebuffing comments from a former US ambassador, the US Embassy in Sarajevo reiterated Washington’s support for a united Bosnia and Herzegovina. “Our position … remains unchanged. The US fully supports the sovereignty and territorial integrity of BiH,” the embassy said. The Office of the High Representative issued a similar statement, …

The watchdog group Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday (November 1st) accused Turkey of using anti-terror laws to stifle Kurdish protests and send peaceful demonstrators to jail. “When it comes to the Kurdish question, the courts in Turkey are all too quick to label political opposition as terrorism,” Emma Sinclair-Webb, …

Kosovo’s parliament backed a no-confidence motion Tuesday, bringing down the government that led the country to independence from Serbia in 2008 and triggering early elections within 45 days. The landlocked Balkan country’s political turmoil in recent weeks follows the resignation of the president and collapse of a government coalition led …