The first snowfall of the year in Bosnia and Herzegovina on Monday claimed its first victim, after a tree collapsed under the weight of snow onto a woman in Sarajevo, who died of head injuries the ...

Christmas is a time filled with ­memories for mum-of-two Azra Omerbegovic – some happy, but many too painful to revisit. Tomorrow, it will be 30 years since the signing in Paris of the Dayton Peace ...

During the 1,425 days of the Sarajevo siege, citizens suffered almost daily shelling and sniper fire. Civilians of all ages were killed, including children; in lines for water and food, on the street, ...

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The war came home to Enes Karic around midnight on May 9, 1992. Karic was asleep when bombs slammed into his apartment building in Sarajevo’s Pofalici neighborhood. In seconds, the third-story flat ...

It’s been 27 years since the famous battle on Pofalići, codenamed “Grom (Thunder)”. It was a crucial battle for Sarajevo. Members of the former JNA and Serbian paramilitary formations tried to cut the ...

The Bosnian War, from 1992 to 1995, left 100,000 dead and forced more than 2 million people to flee their homes. It led to the disintegration of Yugoslavia. During the 44-month siege of Sarajevo ...

At the trial of Radovan Karadzic, defence witness Mihajlo Vujasin claims the Bosnian Serb Army, VRS, saved Bosniaks from the village of Ahatovici near Sarajevo in 1992. This post is also available in ...

At the trial of the former Bosnian Serb army chief, Ratko Mladic, the prosecution played a recording of his order to shell the Sarajevo neighbourhoods which did not have many Serb residents. This post ...

A look back at scenes of Sarajevo taken after the 44-month siege of the city and today, 20 years later. More than 11,500 men, women, and children were killed in the bombardment of the city by Bosnian ...

Friday, 6 April, marks the 20th anniversary of the start of the Bosnian War and the siege of Sarajevo. The conflict has since been condemned as one of the worst atrocities in Europe since World War II ...

May 30 (Bloomberg) -- In the spring of 1992, at thebeginning of the siege of Sarajevo, an exchange between GeneralRatko Mladic and a Serb artillery colonel commanding positionsabove the city was ...