While most of the informed Western public is aghast at the economic and political chaos that appears to be overtaking the government in Athens, southeast Europe has seen aggravated Islamist turmoil in ...

The British-Bangladeshi author of 'Minarets in the Mountains’ is both entranced and concerned about the prospects for the indigenous Muslims in Southeastern Europe. A newish book, Minarets in the ...

Balkan Muslim cultures in particular are among those most saturated with Sufism, and are singled out in the Rand report as a potential base for partnership with the democratic powers in the ...

In the cacophony of voices in the European public square in the wake of the Fitna controversy, two broader lines can be discerned. While the protagonists of interreligious and intercultural toleration ...

Yugoslavia's internal conflicts brought Muslim mujahedeen fighters and Islamic charities from abroad. In Kosovo, officials say these groups are continuing to spread radical religion along with aid to ...

One day in early February, the black flag of the Islamic State appeared on the roof of a dilapidated home in Gornja Maoca, an isolated hamlet in northern Bosnia-Herzegovina. The flag was gone when the ...

PODGORICA -- Two incidents in quick succession this month that targeted Muslims in religious dress have cast a shadow over Montenegro's sun-splashed coast and its reputation for religious tolerance.

Anthropologists agree that the first people that we know for sure settled in the Balkans area that at various times has been called Yugoslavia were Illyrians, an Indo-European collection of tribes.