Kosovo

McCain's Vietnam obsession McCain's Vietnam obsession

The former POW's Senate career has been marked by his outspoken determination never to repeat Vietnam mistakes. So why does he support the Iraq war?
By Mark Benjamin Apr 1, 2008

  • I, Ramush

    Former Kosovar rebel and prime minister Ramush Haradinaj is a local hero. He also faces war crime charges.
    By Ginanne Brownell October 21, 2005

  • Rumsfeld's McArmy goes to war

    The Pentagon's new public-private military was supposed to be a lean, mean fighting machine. It isn't working.
    By David Morse September 18, 2003

  • Millions die, Bush is silent

    The Congo's descent into a vortex of murder and destruction is the globe's worst human crisis. But as he travels in Africa this week, the president will ignore it.
    By Laura McClure July 4, 2003

  • Oil, imperialism and "hypocrisy"

    Among the hundreds of thousands protesting in London, most saw Bush and Blair as a bigger threat than dictator Saddam Hussein.
    By David Akerman February 16, 2003

  • Yesterday's terrorist, today's peacemaker

    In a vote hailed as a landmark stride for democracy, Macedonian voters elect an ethnic Albanian guerrilla leader many authorities still denounce as a terrorist.
    By Ashley Fantz September 17, 2002

  • See no evil

    As prosecutors present graphic evidence of Balkans atrocities, accused war criminal Slobodan Milosevic yawns and looks away and calls his trial "illegal."
    By Laura Rozen February 14, 2002

  • Noam Chomsky

    The nation's most implacable critic of U.S. foreign policy argues that the war is unjust, America is the biggest terrorist state and intellectuals always support official violence.
    By Suzy Hansen January 16, 2002

  • Milosevic goes to The Hague

    Yugoslavia's former dictator will face war crimes charges in an unprecedented international trial.
    By Laura Rozen June 28, 2001

  • Macedonia on the brink

    Colin Powell urges peace, but a walk through the capital city reveals a country on the verge of civil war.
    By Laura Rozen April 13, 2001

  • Radioactive fallout

    Did exposure to American depleted-uranium-tipped weapons cause the cancer deaths of some European peacekeepers who served in the Balkans?
    By Laura Rozen January 12, 2001

  • Peacekeeping's pitfalls

    Growing tensions along the border between Kosovo and southern Serbia could mark the first challenge for President-elect Bush's foreign policy team.
    By Laura Rozen December 22, 2000

  • Kosovo crackdown

    U.N. vice squad officers are sent home for "inappropriate behavior" with prostitutes.
    By Jack Boulware December 13, 2000

  • Propping up the walls

    As international support for Kosovar independence wanes, hatred still seethes between Albanians and Serbs. And the U.N. oversees their division.
    By Richard Blow October 23, 2000

  • "He's finished"

    Milosevic goes into hiding after hundreds of thousands of outraged Serbs seize Parliament and the state-run media. A report from the Battle for Belgrade.
    By Alex Todorovic October 5, 2000

  • Outlaws in an outlaw nation

    With Yugoslav election time approaching, Serbian activists face a new wave of repression as they try to fight the Milosevic regime from within.
    By Laura Rozen September 6, 2000

  • Milosevic's fizzling opposition

    Even a year after the NATO bombing of Belgrade, there's still no one around to take down the Yugoslav leader.
    By Laura Rozen June 5, 2000

  • Battle without blood

    Michael Ignatieff talks about the poison of nationalism, the politics of fear and the strange future of war.
    By Max Garrone May 4, 2000

  • Misha Glenny's "The Balkans" and Michael Ignatieff's "Virtual War"

    Behind the bombings in Kosovo, two journalists find Western self-interest and self-deception about the physical sacrifice war requires.
    By Max Garrone May 4, 2000

  • Imagination unleashed in all its perverse glory

    The Web: Let the Puritans figure out how to jam their mealy corks into the dike!
    By Camille Paglia April 5, 2000

  • Paranoid city

    Belgrade is gripped by rumors that NATO is about to begin bombing again.
    By Laura Rozen March 15, 2000

  • Payoffs, fear and bloody conflict

    With his usual bag of dirty tricks, Slobodan Milosevic looks to be preparing Serbia to reelect him.
    By Laura Rozen February 10, 2000

  • Albanian gangsters kidnapping women and girls to service troops

    Kosovo has not been part of the Eastern European sex trade that has flourished since the collapse of communism, but the lure of a 45,000-strong army has made it a new business.
    By Hank Hyena February 9, 2000

  • Wake up! Is this Cloud-Cuckoo-Land?

    Will we get stuck with a fumbling Bush? Given the evil eye by Hillary? Deafened by the shrill mania of gun controllers? And will Kate Winslet ever get the Oscar Helen Hunt stole from her?
    By Camille Paglia February 2, 2000

  • Who killed Arkan?

    The rise and fall of Zeljko Raznatovic symbolizes how corrupt and morally bankrupt Serbia has become under Slobodan Milosevic.
    By Laura Rozen January 17, 2000
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