To its credit, Macedonia's government has in recent months taken several initiatives that would improve the plight of its ethnic-Albanian minority. But it rejects any possibility of carving up the ...

OHRID, Macedonia — Ethnic Albanian rebels lobbed mortars at Macedonian police positions near Tetovo, the country’s second-largest city, straining a shaky truce that has coincided with peace ...

VEVCANI, Macedonia — Their village is just a dot on the map, but the people here consider it a country all its own: a self-proclaimed Balkan state that’s been defying authority for more than a ...

Macedonian authorities on Monday jailed 30 people captured in a weekend gun battle in a northern town that left 22 police and suspected ethnic Albanian militants dead, at a time of heightened ...

Apart from Macedonia, there are ethnic Albanian minorities in Montenegro, Greece and southern Serbia. In Kosovo, which borders Macedonia, they make up around 90% of the population.

A two-year-long political crisis in Macedonia is entering a dangerous phase, with nationalists accused of stirring up ethnic tensions in a bid to disrupt a corruption probe.

If President Ivanov refuses to compromise, and to grant ethnic Albanians the rights due to them, it is hard to see how this controversy will not hurl Macedonia, and possibly the entire Balkan ...