The Yugoslav statesman Marshal Tito (born 1892) became president of Yugoslavia in 1953. He directed the rebuilding of a Yugoslavia devastated in World War II and the welding of Yugoslavia's different peoples into unity until his death in 1980. From its...

Josip Broz Tito's Yugoslavia, the lone independent communist state since the 1948 Moscow-Belgrade rift, supported Soviet use of military force against Hungary in the 1956 revolution there. Some leaders other than the Soviet ones feared possible dissolution of the Warsaw Pact and spillover of...

The West may be mistaken in not pushing for the removal of bomb-grade material from the nuclear center in Vinca, a suburb of Belgrade. YUGOSLAVIA--AT LEAST IN THE eyes of the West--is regarded as a pariah state. But it is a pariah...

_ CAPITAL: Belgrade, population 1.7 million._ GEOGRAPHY: Located in Europe's southeast, Serbia has a population of 9 million, including 2 million in its southern, mostly ethnic Albanian-populated province of Kosovo, which has been under NATO and U.N. control since 1999. Serbia's territory covers 34,120 square...

Today is Sunday, Jan. 14, the 14th day of 2007. There are 351 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Jan. 14, 1784, the United States ratified a peace treaty with England, ending the Revolutionary War.On this date:In 1639, the first constitution of Connecticut...