The head of the Orthodox Church of Albania, Archbishop Anastasios, will be airlifted Friday to a hospital in Athens, the Greek defence ministry said as the charismatic 95-year-old religious leader ...

An attack on an Albanian military post near the Greek border in April 1994 led to reciprocal accusations, diplomatic expulsions by both sides and increased tension along the common border.

The cocaine trade is far bigger and more geographically diverse than at any point in history as Albanian traffickers expand the market in Europe for the drug.

Xhaka and Shaqiri's families are from Kosovo, where a violent Serbian crackdown on the Albanian population only ended with Nato military intervention in 1999. Xhaka's father spent three-and-a-half ...