Sunday, 18 january 2026.
Serbian Security Chief Jovica Stanisic’s Release Extended
The UN-backed Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals has announced that it has extended Jovica Stanisic’s provisional release until April 30, 2020 because of his continuing illness. It said that the...
Bosnian Salafist Preachers Calibrate Message to Growing Audience
Elvedin Pezic has over 150,000 followers on Facebook, where he broadcasts live his lectures on Islam to packed auditoriums around Bosnia and Herzegovina. Yet it was only a few years...
Bosnian Serb Ex-Fighter’s Murder, Rape Conviction Upheld
Former Bosnian Serb fighter Cvetkovic was found guilty of the murder of Roma civilians Alaga and Mejra Halilovic in the village of Kolonija, near Srebrenica. The judge at the original...
Protesters Rally in New York for Balkan War Rape Victims
Several dozen people joined the protest entitled ‘Rally for Her Justice’, organised by the Albanian American Woman’s Organisation with backing from US Bosnian and Croat groups, on Tuesday near the...
Bosnia Halts Extradition of Croat Ex-Fighter after Victim Dies
The procedure to extradite former Croatian Defence Council fighter Robert Kovacic from the United States on suspicion that he committed war crimes has been suspended because the investigation has been...
Radovan Karadzic’s Attempt to Remove ‘Biased’ Judges Rejected
The UN’s Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals in The Hague on Monday said it has refused to consider a request by lawyers for Radovan Karadzic, who was convicted of genocide...
Bosnian Serb Ex-Commander Arrested for Prisoner Abuse, Killings
“He is suspected, in his capacity as commander of the Vogosca Brigade of the Bosnian Serb Army, of being responsible for murders and loss of life, as well as the...
Why No One Went to Jail for Shelling Tuzla in Bosnia
“I will not speak about my feelings. All that lost all purpose long ago,” Alen Simic, now 30, told BIRN in an interview 24 years after his parents Ivo and...
Interpol Issues ‘Red Notice’ for Bosnian War Suspect
Interpol has called for the arrest of former Bosnian Army soldier Esed Abdagic, who is charged with killing a Bosnian Serb prisoner of war in Bihac in 1993, after a...
Bosnia Issues Warrant for Serbian War Crime Suspect
Bubalo, a Serbian citizen, was indicted for crimes against humanity in September 2017. He was charged with having participated in a widespread and systematic attack, and persecuted and murdered Bosniak...
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