Author: BBC

A war crimes appeal hearing in The Hague was cut short dramatically when one defendant drank what he said was poison upon hearing the verdict. Slobodan Praljak, 72, was one of six…

Bosnian Serbs are voting on whether to keep 9 January as a national holiday in defiance of Bosnia’s highest court. It has ruled the date discriminates against Muslim Bosniaks and Catholic Croats…

Barack Obama described the Srebrenica massacre as “a stain on our collective conscience” as hundreds of victims of the 1995 atrocity were buried. In a statement read for him in the Bosnian…

Serb authorities in Bosnia-Hercegovina have been ordered to pay $42m (£26m) to local Muslims for the destruction of mosques during the Bosnian civil war. All 16 mosques in Banja Luka, the main…

Turkey’s PM has received a hero’s welcome on his return to Istanbul after he stormed out of a debate about Gaza at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Recep Tayyip Erdogan had…

Momir Pelemis and Slavko Peric were detained in the eastern town of Zvornik, officials say. Prosecutors accuse the two men of taking part in the arrest and execution of up to 1,700…

The head of the main opposition party in Serbia has resigned after senior colleagues refused to back the country’s efforts to join the EU. Tomislav Nikolic had recently persuaded his Serbian Radical…

The head of the Arkansas Democratic Party has been killed by a gunman at the state’s party HQ The announcement was made by Bill and Hillary Clinton’s office. Bill Gwatney, 49, was…

Seven Bosnian Serbs have been convicted of genocide and jailed over the massacre of Bosnian Muslims (Bosniaks) in Srebrenica in 1995. After a two-year trial, the Bosnian war crimes court in Sarajevo…