The roots of this criminal expansion lie in the Balkans' turbulent 1990s, marked by the collapse of communism, separatist wars and economic instability. Smuggling operations – initially focused ...

What were the Balkan Wars? The Balkan Wars were two separate wars, fought in rapid succession, in 1912 and 1913. In the First Balkan War, Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece, and Montenegro formed the Balkan ...

In 1888, a generation before the First World War started, the German arch-statesman Otto von Bismarck predicted that a great European war was coming over some “damn foolish thing in the Balkans.” ...

For a much bigger context on the history of conflict in the Balkans, watch this video's next part covering the 1990's Yugoslav Wars Federal judge blocks Trump order that could disenfranchise ...