MITROVICA, Kosovo — We came to the bridge in search of redemption. Not the religious kind, but the...
Jul 01, 2014
Why World War I still matters, 100 years after it began
SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina — One hundred years ago, on the morning of June 28, 1914, a slight,...
Jun 26, 2014
Sarajevo struggles to process its history of war
SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina — The stairs that lead to the History Museum were cracked and crumbling and...
Jun 26, 2014
Returning to sites of Kosovo’s horrors, signs of healing and injustice
PRISTINA, Kosovo — In the Balkans, the 28th of June has resonated on the calendar through centuries of...
Jun 26, 2014
Kosovo’s ‘House of Cards,’ 15 years after liberation
PRISTINA, Kosovo — There were no big parades, no visible celebrations and hardly a public mention of the...
Jun 14, 2014
After a century of conflict, searching for peace in Bosnia
SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina — The footsteps of the assassin are marked near the bridge here where a...
Jun 12, 2014
Why Spain’s unemployed millennials are rushing to join the navy
By Tik Root and Juan Herrero FERROL, Spain — By the time Borja Bernardez got home it was nearly three...
Jun 12, 2014
What we can learn from the Great War and the ‘Petty Peace that followed’
H.G. Wells called it “The War That Will End War,” which it certainly wasn’t. Woodrow Wilson said it...
Feb 24, 2014
Assad’s divide-and-conquer strategy proving effective against Syrian rebels
BY REESE ERLICH DAMASCUS — Syria’s US-backed rebels are steadily losing ground to extremist Islamist groups, dealing a...
Dec 18, 2013
What it means to call the bombing of Iran’s embassy in Beirut ‘sectarian violence’
BY REESE ERLICH BEIRUT — In the aftermath of the horrific twin bombings of the Iranian Embassy here,...
Nov 21, 2013
