Albania

Morocco, Albania, Greece expected to join International Stabilization Force in Gaza

Morocco, Albania, and Greece will join Indonesia in the force, which is set to oversee current ceasefire lines and possibly address other border-related issues.

Displaced Palestinians receive prefabricated tents, which are safer and more durable, with the support of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Al-Zaytun of Gaza City, Gaza on February 7, 2026.
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Israel's ADC to build Albania's first data center

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama seen during a special plenum session held in his honor at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, in Jerusalem, January 26, 2026.

Albania’s PM Edi Rama to ‘Post': Antisemitism starts with Jews but threatens all humanity

 On April 6 this year, President Isaac Herzog awarded Albania's Edi Rama the Presidential Medal of Honor, Israeli's highest civilian decoration, in a ceremony in Jerusalem.

Start-Up Nation vs Lock-Up Nation: What is slowing Israel-Albania economic ties? - opinion


Iran, Albania ready to temporarily house Afghan refugees

Iran said on Sunday it has prepared accommodation in three provinces bordering Afghanistan to provide temporary refuge to Afghans fleeing their country as Taliban insurgents enter the capital Kabul.

 Afghan refugees who supported Canada’s mission in Afghanistan are greeted before boarding a bus after arriving in Canada on a Canadian Forces CC-177 Globemaster transport plane at Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada August 4, 2021.

Balkan countries unite against antisemitism

“The task of combating antisemitism is pressing, especially as we have seen a disturbing uptick during the pandemic," said Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visiting Sudan, 2020.

Albania to host first ever Balkans Forum Against Antisemitism

The announcement comes days after Albania officially adopted the IHRA definition of antisemitism, becoming the first Muslim-majority nation to do so.

Police stand guard during an anti-government protest in front of the Parliament in Tirana, Albania May 25, 2019

Albania first Muslim majority state to adopt IHRA antisemitism definition

Balkan country is first Muslim-majority counties to adopt formally adopt IHRA definition of antisemitism.

Police stand guard during an anti-government protest in front of the Parliament in Tirana, Albania May 25, 2019

Ex Albania minister becomes 1st Muslim to join Combat Antisemitism Movement

"Antisemitism is not just a danger to Jews and Jewish communities. It is a threat to every decent society and therefore to people of all backgrounds: Muslim, Christian and beyond."

Valentina Leskaj

Kadri Cakrani - An unknown Albanian hero of the Holocaust

He served as a commandant-general of the town of Berat, and in 1943, he called for help as he tried to protect the Jews in his area.

JEWISH MUSICIANS perform in the streets of Tirana, Albania, in preparation for Passover.

Kosovo is a test of Israel’s moral character

In the 1990s, 10,000 Kosovo Albanians died and about one million were displaced as a result of Serbia’s aggression.

‘ISRAEL’S RECOGNITION of Kosovo would affirm its commitment to justice and ethics in international relations.’ Kosovo Prime Minister Avdullah Hoti talks to media outside the Assembly building in Pristina early this summer.

Architect designed a memorial honoring Albanians who saved Jews

Jacobs, 81, agreed to work on the memorial after learning that Albania was the only country in Europe that had more Jews after World War II than it did before.

Stephen Jacobs has designed two Holocaust memorials in Europe.

Albania honors locals who rescued Jews during the Holocaust with memorial

The Albanians protected the Jews despite Nazi German forces occupying the country.

Beqir Xhepa, 80, an Albanian who was caught as a partisan courier by the Germans during World War Two and sent to the concentration camps at Mathausen and Auschwitz, points at himself in a picture taken when he was a prisoner, in Tirana, January 27, 2005

War crimes prosecutor indicts Kosovo president Hashim Thaci

War crimes allegations against the KLA first surfaced in the 2011 Council of Europe rights agency report that accused guerrillas of killing civilian Serbs and ethnic Albanian political opponents.

Kosovo's President Hashim Thaci attends a ceremony of security forces a day before parliament's vote on whether to form a national army, in Pristina, Kosovo, December 13, 2018.