Bosnian War

International official: Bosnian Serbs seek to split country

By Edith M. Lederer May. 04, 2021 08:58 PM EDT
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The top international official in Bosnia warned Tuesday that ethnic Serb leaders are making a concerted effort to split the country, or...

Migrants, some wearing masks for protection aganst the COVID-19 infection, speak outside the Miral camp, in Velika Kladusa, Bosnia, Wednesday, April 7, 2021. Bosnia is seeing a rise in coronavirus infections among migrants and refugees living in its camps, as it struggles to cope with one of the Balkans' highest COVID-19 death and infection rates among the general population.(AP Photo/Davor Midzic)

Struggling Bosnia sees infection surge in migrants, refugees

Apr. 08, 2021 05:15 AM EDT

Doctors from the Amerikan Hastanesi hospital in Istanbul and local medical staff taking care for patients in the COVID-19 ward at a the General Hospital in the capital Sarajevo, Bosnia, Thursday, March 18, 2021. As Bosnia faces soaring coronavirus infections and rapidly-filling hospitals, two doctors from Turkey have arrived in Sarajevo to help and offer their insight in the treatment of COVID-19. Bosnia is seeing a huge rise in infections and hospitalizations after a period of relaxed measures and the winter season that saw ski resorts staying open unlike in most of Europe. (AP Photo)

As infections rise, Sarajevo's hospitals feel the pressure

By Eldar Emric Mar. 18, 2021 01:56 PM EDT

In this photo provided by the Serbian Presidential Press Service, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, left, and Muslim member of the tripartite Presidency of Bosnia Sefik Dzaferovic exchange fist bumps at Sarajevo Airport, Bosnia, Tuesday, March 2, 2021. Bosnia on Tuesday received 10,000 vaccines from neighboring Serbia amid a dispute with the international COVAX mechanism over a delay in planned shipments. Serbia's populist President Aleksandar Vucic flew to the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo to deliver the Astra-Zeneca vaccines to the authorities there. (Serbian Presidential Press Service via AP)

Bosnia receives jabs from Serbia amid COVAX dispute

By Eldar Emric Mar. 02, 2021 09:12 AM EST

Bosnian filmmaker Jasmila Zbanic speaks and gestures during an interview with the Associated Press in the capital Sarajevo, Bosnia, Saturday, Jan. 30, 2021. Zbanic's latest and the most ambitious film "Quo Vadis, Aida?", based on true events from Bosnia's brutal 1992-95 inter-ethnic war has been many years in the making. (AP Photo/Kemal Softic)

Bosnian director: Movie's human-rights focus resonates now

By Sabina Niksic Feb. 01, 2021 05:45 PM EST

FILE - In this Jan. 26, 2021, file photo, registered nurse Diane Miller pulls on gloves and other protective equipment as she prepares to enter patient rooms in the COVID acute care unit at UW Medical Center-Montlake in Seattle. The deadliest month of the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S. drew to a close with certain signs of progress: COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations are trending downward, while vaccinations are picking up speed. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

The Latest: Wash. state warns hospitals on VIP vaccinations

By The Associated Press Feb. 01, 2021 04:19 AM EST

A medic wearing full protective gear works in the corridor in the COVID-19 ward at a former military hospital in the capital Sarajevo, Bosnia, Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020. Doctors in Bosnia, one of the hardest hit countries in the Balkans with the new coronavirus, are appealing on the citizens to respect preventive measures and help the ailing health system. (AP Photo/Kemal Softic)

Bosnia doctors appeal for respect of rules amid virus surge

By Kemal Softic Nov. 19, 2020 12:30 PM EST

Members of a mobile electoral commission prepare go to voters during local elections in the capital Sarajevo, Bosnia, Sunday, Nov. 15, 2020. Polls have opened at Bosnian local elections, where over 3 million voters will have the right to choose their local mayors and city hall parliaments members. Despite the huge number in positive cases and deaths from COVID-19 in Bosnia, thousands of people have flocked the polling stations early Sunday, wishing to choose their local leaders for next four years. (AP Photo/Kemal Softic)

Opposition parties win major cities in Bosnia's local vote

By Sabina Niksic Nov. 16, 2020 04:28 AM EST

Bosnians vote in local elections overshadowed by pandemic

By Sabina Niksic Nov. 15, 2020 10:05 AM EST

A a woman paints a pine cone during a therapy session in Sarajevo, Bosnia Monday, Oct. 26, 2020. As coronavirus cases surge in Bosnia, the pandemic is heaping new trouble on an impoverished nation that has never recovered economically or psychologically from a war in the 1990s. Bosnian health authorities estimate that nearly half of the Balkan nation’s nearly 3.5 million people have suffered some degree of trauma resulting from the war. (AP Photo/Kemal Softic)

Pandemic heaps new fears and trauma on war-scarred Bosnians

By Sabina Niksic Nov. 06, 2020 02:53 AM EST

Serbian police officers guard the street during a protest against a festival ''Mirdita-Dobar Dan'' organized by liberal groups from Serbia and Kosovo, in Belgrade, Serbia, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020. Serbian police prevented dozens of right-wing extremists from disrupting a youth cultural event with Kosovo after similar groups in the past weeks broke into a cartoon exhibition and threatened artists in a theatre play about the 1995 killings in Srebrenica. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Serb police block right-wing disruption of event with Kosovo

Oct. 22, 2020 03:11 PM EDT

FILE - In this Wednesday, April 13, 1994 file photo, Rwandan refugees hold their hands up and ask for help from Belgian soldiers, who had come to a psychiatric hospital compound outside of Kigali. Karsten Thielker, a Pulitzer Prize-winning German photographer with The Associated Press who covered human suffering in conflict zones around the globe, has died. He was 54. Thielker died Oct. 3 in Berlin of esophageal cancer, his wife Janna Ressel said Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Karsten Thielker, File)

Karsten Thielker, Pulitzer-winning AP photographer, dies

By Kirsten Grieshaber Oct. 08, 2020 08:15 AM EDT

Tarik Svraka visits the graves of his parents in law, who died of COVID-19 related complications, in Zenica, Bosnia, Monday, Sept. 28, 2020. The coronavirus skeptics and rebels in Bosnia grow louder in step with the rising number of infections in the country. Recently, several families who lost their loved ones to COVID-19 were confronted online, and some even in real life, by scores of random virus believers and deniers sifting through their pain and questioning their relatives’ cause of death. (AP Photo/Almir Alic)

Bosnia: Unnerved by virus denial, survivors mourn their dead

By Sabina Niksic Oct. 03, 2020 03:20 AM EDT

FILE - In this July 1997 file photo, Momcilo Krajisnik, Serb member of Bosnian Presidency addresses during Bosnian Serb Assembly session at Mt. Jahorina, near Sarajevo, Bosnia. The hospital in the northern Bosnian town of Banja Luka said Monday, Sept. 14, 2020, that Krajisnik, a former top wartime Bosnian Serb official who was convicted of war crimes by a U.N. court, died after contracting the new coronavirus. He was 75. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File)

Bosnian Serb official jailed for war crimes dies of COVID-19

Sep. 15, 2020 07:24 AM EDT

FILE - In this Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2017 file photo, Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic enters the Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, to hear the verdict in his genocide trial. Mladic is appealing Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020 against his convictions for crimes including genocide committed throughout the 1992-95 Bosnian War. Mladic was convicted by a U.N. war crimes tribunal in 2017 and sentenced to life imprisonment for masterminding crimes by Bosnian Serb forces throughout the war that left 100,000 dead, an overwhelming majority of them Bosnian Muslim civilians. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, Pool, File)

Mladic lawyers call on UN judges to overturn his convictions

By Mike Corder Aug. 25, 2020 06:00 AM EDT

Lawyers for Bosnian War strongman seek court delay in appeal

By Mike Corder Jul. 24, 2020 10:39 AM EDT

A woman prays at the memorial cemetery in Potocari, near Srebrenica, Bosnia, Friday, July 10, 2020. Nine newly found and identified men and boys will be laid to rest when Bosnians commemorate on Saturday 25 years since more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslims perished in 10 days of slaughter, after Srebrenica was overrun by Bosnian Serb forces during the closing months of the country's 1992-95 fratricidal war, in Europe's worst post-WWII massacre. (AP Photo/Kemal Softic)

25 years on: A look at Europe's only post-WWII genocide

By Radul Radovanovic Jul. 10, 2020 09:19 AM EDT

Gravestones are lined up at the memorial cemetery in Potocari, near Srebrenica, Bosnia, Tuesday, July 7, 2020. A quarter of a century after they were killed in Sreberenica, eight Bosnian men and boys will be laid to rest Saturday, July 11. Over 8,000 Bosnian Muslims perished in 10 days of slaughter after the town was overrun by Bosnian Serb forces in the closing months of the country’s 1992-95 fratricidal war. (AP Photo/Kemal Softic)

25 years on, Srebrenica dead still being identified, buried

By Sabina Niksic And Eldar Emric Jul. 09, 2020 03:41 AM EDT