BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina’s documentary about rock guitarist Samir ‘Bowie’ Mehic, looking back on his wartime life in besieged Srebrenica before his death in the July 1995 genocide, is available...

Two exhibitions on the 1995 genocide first presented in 2025 will reopen together this July at UN headquarters.

Nirha Efendic was 16 when her father and brother were killed in 1995. Photographs collected for a memorialisation project about the Srebrenica genocide are a powerful reminder of her family’s...

Patience, political will and countering false narratives are key ingredients for peace, according to the UN peacekeeping chief Jean-Pierre Lacroix, who praised Bosnia and Herzegovina for helping other countries.

The annual Pride march in Sarajevo has again sparked outbursts of hate speech online, with organisers urging the authorities to prosecute offenders as online threats can spark violence against LGBTQ+...

Detektor journalist Emina Dizdarevic Tahmiscija has received a 2025 international Fetisov Journalism Award for a series of articles on transitional justice in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

In December, BIRN went inside camps in northeastern Syria where thousands of women and children who lived under the Islamic State are being held in indefinite detention, some of them...