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RAISING a clenched fist, shedding tears and kissing the flag, Croatia's septubel 'Republic of Serbian Krajina'. In just three days, starting on August 4th, Croatia's Operation Storm had overrun Krajina [...]

EVEN by the unspeakable standards of recent Balkan history, it was grisly news. The Belgrade authorities said on June 3rd that investigators were examining scores of bodies from several mass [...]

PODUJEVO THE Scots Dragoon Guards react calmly when a Serbian lorry roars towards them out of the night, down the spooky no-man's-land which separates their checkpoint from Serbia proper--and it [...]

IT LOOKS simple. The local thug is causing trouble again, this time beating up his own people, not the neighbours. Last time, he became co-operative only when the West, in [...]

BELGRADE AND PRISTINA IT MIGHT seem an odd moment for Slobodan Milosevic to embrace Serbia's leading ultra-nationalist and give him and his disciples a string of posts in government. Serbia's [...]

FOR the first time in its anxious attempt to get Yugoslavs to stop killing each other, the European Community has pointed a clear finger of blame. It is Serbia's obstinacy, [...]

PRISTINA ``WHAT are we without you, our holy ground? I'm not giving up what's mine to anybody, even if I perish with it. Even if the skies open, and even [...]

BELGRADE This week's deal has saved Yugoslavia from NATO's war machine. But it may not bring lasting peace to Kosovo, or, in the end, save Slobodan Milosevic AT THE 11th [...]

Serbia continued its offensive against separatists in Kosovo, its ethnic-Albanian province, while NATO threatened to intervene. Slobodan Milosevic, the president of Yugoslavia (of which Serbia is the main part), agreed [...]

BELGRADE A FOLK hero among Serbs, but hated by those Muslims and Croats who survived the 'ethnic cleansing' of his thugs, one man likely to be high on the secret [...]

ARKAN was in Croatia, there was war. Arkan was in Bosnia, there was war. And now he is here in Kosovo.' The political leaders of Kosovo's ethnic Albanians may shrug [...]

WHEN they cracked the sanctions whip at Serbia three months ago, the members of the United Nations Security Council thought they could make the government in Belgrade more amenable to [...]