Former communist dictator Enver Hoxha left Albania covered by thousands of bunkers. Now the once-isolated country is giving ...

The country has turned old bunkers and barracks into tourist destinations. Once symbols of isolation and fear under the iron ...

Alex Soros, whose father is Hungarian, reportedly travels to the capital Tirana so often he has called it “my second home.” ...

Hungry for a touring destination less ordinary, Simon Thomas sets the controls for southern Albania and North Macedonia ...

What stunned me most, however, was the massive disconnect between today’s Albania and the horrific period between 1944 and 1985, when Albanians were controlled by Enver Hoxha, a “completely ...

Unfortunately, this was the 1980s, and Albania had long been sealed from the world under communist dictator Enver Hoxha, whose death in 1985 would lead to a democratic transition early the ...

CHRISTMAS is looming, and whilst it might be too early to be putting up the tree, it’s a great time to start planning a ...

"You see those white pinkish dots in front of us?" asked Xhemal Xherri, peering across a lagoon along the southern coast of ...

Throughout the past century, dictators held Europe in an iron grip. Yet, despite their unquestioned control, paranoia and distrust corrupted their minds ...

Until the early 1990s, after the Iron Curtain fell, Albania was one of the most cut-off nations in the world, ruled by paranoid communist dictator Enver Hoxha, who had 750,000 bunkers built ...

There are many ways to grab attention, but the Albanian TV station Zjarr takes it to a whole new level. A few years ago, ...