SKOPJE, North Macedonia—At town entrances along the highway winding up the snow-topped mountains northwest of here, oversize Albanian flags flutter beside shrines to fallen ethnic Albanian insurgents. They reflect the legacy of a war that ended in 2001, one of several that ravaged the Balkans in the preceding decade. North Macedonia and the rest of this region, where the implosion of former Yugoslavia in 1991 unleashed Europe’s worst atrocities since World War II, have been remarkably peaceful of late. That is largely thanks...

Source: Wall Street Journal February 04, 2020 17:15 UTC