In April 1992, the government of the Yugoslav republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina declared its independence from Yugoslavia. Over the next several years, Bosnian Serb forces, with the backing of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A woman mourns her two sons, who were executed by Bosnian Serb forces during the Srebrenica genocide, at the Potocari cemetery.

Former Bosnian Serb military leader and convicted war criminal Ratko Mladić has died in a prison hospital in The Hague at the age of 84, according to Serbian state broadcaster RTS. Considered the most ...

Attorneys for the “Butcher of Bosnia” have pleaded for his release from prison after about 15 years behind bars, saying the notorious war criminal is already on his death bed after a stroke. Former ...

Biljana Plavšić, who has died aged 96, was known by her fellow Bosnian Serbs as the “Iron Lady” and became the only woman among more than 150 people indicted for war crimes by the International ...

Twenty-five years ago, the Dayton Peace Accords ended Europe’s deadliest conflict since World War II. Yet Bosnia and Herzegovina remains the most fragile country in the Balkans. Russia’s current ...

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Ratko Mladic, the bullish Bosnian Serb general whose forces besieged the Bosnian capital for several years in the 1990s and carried out the worst massacre in Europe since World ...

Individuals acquitted of war crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina have received far more money in compensation than the survivors of war crimes. The latter wait for decades and often never receive ...

US envoy for the Western Balkans, Daniel Escobar, (L) sought to allay concerns about renewed conflict over Bosnia after meeting the nation’s leaders – Copyright ...

In the second of BIRN’s series about war-displaced families' enduring connections to their home countries, Dutch artist Anita Karabasic explains how her Bosnian refugee origins have shaped her ...