As a three-term president, he guided the country toward democracy, but he was called an authoritarian at heart and accused of ...

Ion Iliescu, Romania’s first freely elected president after the fall of communism in 1989, who later faced charges of crimes ...

Initially hailed as the man who would lead Romania into a new democratic era, Iliescu's legacy soon became more complicated.

Ion Iliescu, Romania's first leader after the collapse of the Ceausescu dictatorship, died at 95. He saw himself as a savior, ...

Although the Romanian government is preparing two additional extensive reform packages, targeting mainly the spending cuts ...

Romania is holding two days of state funerals for former president Ion Iliescu, the country’s first elected head of state ...

Ion Iliescu, who has died aged 95, was a Romanian politician who approved the summary execution of his predecessor, the ...

Romania's former president Ion Iliescu died on Tuesday in Bucharest at the age of 95. Sorin Grindeanu, interim leader of ...

The NATO member was forced to scramble planes following an onslaught that was so intense it caused an explosion visible from ...

The Moscow-trained engineer took power after the bloody 1989 revolution that culminated in the overthrow and execution of ...

Ion IIiescu, the former president of Romania has died at the age of 95.IIiescu, who was in charge during the country's trouble shift from communism to democracy had been diagnosed with lung cancer and ...