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This year marks three decades since the end of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in which an estimated 100,000 people lost their lives. The war culminated in the Srebrenica genocide in July 1995, in which the Bosnian Serb forces, led by General Ratko Mladić, known as the “Butcher of Bosnia”, massacred more than 8,000…
Italy’s public prosecutor’s office has opened an investigation into claims that Italians travelled on weekend “sniper safaris” to Sarajevo to shoot at citizens during the Bosnian-Serb army’s siege on the city that killed more than 11,000 people between 1992 and 1996. The alleged “safaris” – a grotesque reference to expeditions to hunt or observe wild…
Investigators are working to determine cause of the blaze that broke out at facility in Tuzla in northeastern Bosnia. Published On 5 Nov 20255 Nov 2025 Click here to share on social media share2 Share A fire at a retirement home in northeastern Bosnia has killed at least 11 people and injured about 30 others,…
Bosnia’s Serb entity names an interim president after separatist Milorad Dodik is barred from politics by a state court. Published On 18 Oct 202518 Oct 2025 Click here to share on social media share2 Share Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Serb-majority entity has appointed Ana Trisic Babic as interim president, marking the first formal acknowledgement that Milorad…
Ratko Mladic filed the request to be released on health grounds last month, saying he only had a few months to live. A United Nations war crimes court has denied a request from Ratko Mladic, an infamous Bosnian Serb military leader during the 1992 to 1995 Yugoslav wars, who oversaw the Srebrenica massacre, to be…
Scorching heat forces closure of the iconic site amid severe weather warnings and fire risks across the country. Greece has shut the Acropolis and halted outdoor work across the country as a fierce heatwave scorches the region, pushing temperatures to above 40C (104F) and leading to fire alerts and severe weather warnings across the Balkans….
Bosnian Serb leader ignoring conviction, including jail sentence. A deepening political crisis in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Republika Srpska, the autonomous Serb region, bans state police and the judiciary after its leader is convicted of undermining the national constitution. Both the US and EU are condemning the move. So what might happen next? Presenter: Sami Zeidan…
Dodik barred Bosnian authorities from Serb-dominated statelet, sparking fears of ‘coup’ that could break up Bosnia. Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik has vowed to ignore a summons from Bosnian state prosecutors who are investigating him for allegedly undermining the country’s constitutional order. Bosnia’s central prosecutor said on Thursday that it was probing Dodik’s passing of…
Christian Schmidt calls for the ‘immediate cessation of all activities that undermine the Dayton Peace Agreement’. The international high representative for Bosnia has accused the political leaders of the autonomous Serb region of seeking to destabilise the country, after the statelet passed legislation to bar the Bosnian national police and judiciary. Lawmakers in Republika Srpska,…
