Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Tuesday said the U.S. is committed to keeping troops in Kosovo through late next year despite strong Russian opposition to creation of the world’s newest country this year.

The Macedonian parliament on Saturday stripped two ethnic Albanian deputies of immunity from prosecution for crimes allegedly committed during the country’s 2001 ethnic conflict.

Authorities have seized dozens of stolen ancient artifacts after raiding the homes of two suspected antiquities smugglers in southern Macedonia.

Macedonian authorities launched a murder probe Friday into the prison death of a newspaper reporter who had been accused of slaying women and covering the killings for his newspaper.Vlado Taneski, 56, was found drowned in a bucket of water in a prison...

A key opposition figure in Macedonia has been released on bail a day after being arrested and charged in a corruption probe.Deputy leader Zoran Zaev and four aides were arrested Thursday on suspicion of embezzling euro7.8 million (US$12.4 million) in...

A key opposition figure in Macedonia has been released on bail a day after being arrested and charged in a corruption probe.Deputy leader Zoran Zaev and four aides were arrested Thursday on suspicion of embezzling $12.4 million in public funds during the...

Macedonia’s main opposition party walked out of parliament Thursday after its deputy leader was arrested and charged in a corruption probe.The Social Democratic party claimed the detention of Zoran Zaev was a political move by the country’s...

A Macedonian journalist jailed on suspicion of murdering at least two women in crimes he wrote about for his newspaper has been found dead in his cell, police said Monday.Vlado Taneski, 56, had been charged with two murders and was being investigated for...

The State Election Commission announced Saturday it would nullify results from 186 polling stations after detecting fraud and other irregularities in the violence-marred parliamentary election a week ago.The voting was annulled on several grounds,...

About 3,000 supporters of Macedonia’s largest ethnic Albanian opposition party marched Thursday to protest violence during Sunday’s national elections.The Democratic Union for Integration, or DUI, said the peaceful demonstration in the capital, Skopje,...