A dispute about engraving civilians’ names on a monument to deceased fighters in a small Kosovo town highlighted a wider problem: although most people killed in the 1998-99 war were civilians, most war memorials commemorate guerrillas. For more than 20 years, the name of Adem Ahmetaj’s nephew Jeton could be …

One of many crowdfunded initiatives that have sprouted up to help Ukraine since Russia’s invasion, Ukrainian Action has just delivered its 200th vehicle filled with humanitarian supplies.The conflict in Ukraine has come to be known as the “crowdfunded war”, as volunteers from around the world use social media to raise …

Auditors have flagged “anomalies” worth almost 14 million euros in deals between a Serbian arms factory and a Belgian machinery manufacturer, BIRN can report. In 2017, in the southwestern Serbian town of Pozega, President Aleksandar Vucic cut the ribbon on a factory built to produce ammunition. “Out of nothing, out …