Albania's Prime Minister wants to give a state and nationhood -- similar to the Vatican in Italy -- to a Muslim minority within the country.

Albania's Prime Minister Edi Rama is considering granting sovereign state status to the world headquarters of Bektashism, a ...

TIRANA, Albania — Albanian opposition activists blocked major roads for several hours Tuesday in a nationwide rally demanding that the government be replaced by a technocratic caretaker Cabinet ...

The Bektashi World Centre ... the Bektashis’ leaders moved to Albania. Through their love of the arts, the order’s dervishes have been credited with helping the country shake off the Ottoman ...

The prosecutors’ seizure order cited criminal codes that prohibit unlawful export and forgery of official documents. It called for the containers to remain sealed and under 24-hour camera surveillance ...

Albania's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development on Wednesday took measures to prevent the spread of bird flu into the country. The ministry issued a special order banning imports of live ...

Italian judges Monday rejected the detention of a group of migrants in Italian-run centres in Albania in a fresh blow to Rome by referring the case to Europe's top rights court.

Protesters in Albania have vented their fury over the arrival of immigrants from Italy, denouncing the move as "undemocratic" and contravening human rights. An Italian naval ship brought the first ...

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albanian officials say they prevented a ship suspected of transferring a huge amount of hazardous waste from docking at Tirana’s main port. The Seattle-based Basel ...

Albania hopes to join the European Union by 2030, Prime Minister Edi Rama has told an enthusiastic crowd of some 2,000 supporters gathered at a hotel in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki ...

An Italian naval vessel delivered the first group of asylum seekers to Albania as part of a controversial deal that raises the stakes in how European Union member states grapple with migration.