The first-instance verdict in October 2018 sentenced Akeljic and Haskic to seven years each, Bilal to eight years and Petkovic to five years in prison for the physical, psychological and...

Sarajevo’s Centar municipality on Friday signed a lease to provide premises to the Association of Parents of Children Killed in Besieged Sarajevo from 1992 to 1995 to establish a memorial...

The Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals has decided to discontinue a pilot project that enabled the Hague war crimes court’s detainees to make and receive video calls via the internet,...

The Bosnian state court told BIRN on Thursday that it had received a death certificate for Ivica Markovic, who passed away at the beginning of July. “As it has been...

Denis Zvizdic, chairman of the Council of Ministers, said that the issue was so-called ‘Category A’ cases which were transferred, before the investigations were finished, by Hague Tribunal prosecutors to...

Republika Srpska is ready to introduce new history textbooks for high school pupils which will include the 1992-95 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as part of an ongoing project to...

Serbia’s football thugs are flexing their muscles. Slobodan Vukic was drinking whiskey at the Tilt nightclub on Belgrade’s Sava riverfront when drunkenness turned to disaster. After knocking over some glasses...

A far-right militant movement in Ukraine is forging ties with like-minded politicians and war veterans in European Union member Croatia, a BIRN investigation reveals. Chain-smoking in a Zagreb cafe, 43-year-old...

The Bosnian prosecutor’s office said on Friday that the exhumation of the grave at Hrtar Grad near Visegrad in the east of the country was now complete and that the...

The Dutch Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the Netherlands was partially liable for the deaths of around 350 Bosniak men who were handed over to Bosnian Serb Army troops...