The Hague-based war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia handed down its most high-profile verdict yet, Thursday sentencing former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic to 40 years in jail after ...

The Balkans has a long and colourful history sitting between western and eastern Europe and at the gateway to the near east. It is here that cultures and religions have clashed for centuries during ...

‘Weekend warriors’ were volunteer fighters who popped in and out of war zones in the 1990s. Many came from Montenegro, but few have ever faced justice for the war crimes they committed. In May 1992, ...

SARAJEVO, Nov 17 (Reuters) - Bosnian police on Tuesday detained a Serb ex-policeman accused of taking part in the killing of 51 non-Serb civilians in northwestern Bosnia early in the Balkans war of ...

SARAJEVO -- War veterans in Bosnia-Herzegovina’s predominantly Serbian region are waging a new battle nearly three decades after weapons fell silent there, this time over a ninth-grade history ...

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia -- Except in the eastern corners of Europe, the Balkans Wars of the 1990s are all but forgotten. An occasional headline awakens Western readers. A rare suspect of mass murder is ...

Whether behind bars, released or on the run, war criminals from the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s are finding channels to communicate, twist the truth and reintegrate via Facebook and mainstream media.

Kemal Mrndzic did not reveal that he had been a guard at a camp where atrocities occurred when seeking US naturalisation, ...

Ahead of the judgement Wednesday of Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic, here is a timeline of the 1990s Balkans conflicts that tore apart the former Yugoslavia. - Bickering after Tito dies - ...