The United States has recognized the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia as “Macedonia,” the name strongly rejected by neighbor Greece for the past 13 years, President Branko Crvenkovski said on ...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, right, accompanied by Greek Alternate Minister of Foreign Affairs George Katrougalos, left, and other members of his government applaud following a vote that ...

PRESPES, Greece/BITOLA, Macedonia (Reuters) - (This June 17 story has been refiled to correct academic institution of expert in penultimate paragraph.) Greece and Macedonia set aside three decades of ...

SKOPJE, Macedonia — Ending a debate that has raged for decades and kept the small Balkan nation of Macedonia outside the fold of the NATO alliance, Macedonian lawmakers on Friday night agreed to ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — "What's in a name?" asks Juliet in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. "That which we call a rose, by any other word would smell as sweet." Not in the ethnically jumbled Balkans ...

Update, January 25, 2019: Following a 153-147 vote, Greek lawmakers approved an agreement that ends a contentious, nearly three-decade dispute over neighboring Macedonia’s name. Macedonian lawmakers ...

Ever since the Republic of Macedonia declared its independence in 1991, Greece has been fighting the country over its name. Today the 27-year impasse ended as two nations finally came to a resolution: ...

The NATO flag was raised in front of the government building in Skopje at a ceremony to mark Macedonia’s signing of an accession protocol to join the Western military alliance. Government members, ...