Bosnia Hertegovina

A former commander of UN forces in Bosnia, giving testimony for the prosecution at the trial of Radovan Karadzic, has said that the Bosnian Serb political elite had effective control over its military forces in the field. General Rose told the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, ICTY, that …

Bosnian Serb president-elect Milorad Dodik on Tuesday repeated his hardline position dismissing Bosnia as an “impossible state” cooked up by the international community. “Bosnia is impossible as a state. It was never a state and it will never be one (…) Bosnia is only possible as a union of republics,” …

A contingent of ten Albanian soldiers trained as mine-clearers headed to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) on Monday (October 4th), to help locate and destroy remaining ordnance from the 1990s conflict. “You are part

Catherine Ashton, the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the Commission made the following statement: “According to the preliminary assessment of OSCE/ODIHR and their International Election Observation Mission for the general elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the elections on 3 October proceeded …

The United States congratulated late on Monday Bosnia and Herzegovina on their general elections and urged the leaders to find a common ground to form the next government.

Zeljko Komsic and Nebojsa Radmanovic are likely to win re-election as BiH tripartite presidency members, the State Election Commission (CEC) announced in the early hours of Monday (October 4th) based on early results. Bakir

Partial results have been announced in Bosnia-Herzegovina in the race for the country’s presidency and the Serb entity (RS) president. Serb representative Nebojša Radmanović, Bosniak Bakir Izetbegović and Croat Željko Komšić

Bakir Izetbegovic, who campaigned for dialogue between Bosnia’s deeply divided ethnic groups, is in the lead for the Muslim spot in Bosnia’s tripartite presidency, partial results showed Monday. Izetbegovic, the 54-year old son of Bosnia’s wartime Muslim leader Alija Izetbegovic, won 34.24 percent

Croatian politician and former high ranking army officer Branimir Glavaš was arrested in Bosnia-Herzegovina on Tuesday. Glavaš holds both Croatian and Bosnian citizenships, and was found guilty and sentenced to eight years in prison in Zagreb for 1991 war crimes committed against Croatia’s ethnic Serb civilians.

Wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic on Tuesday disputed the testimony of a prosecution witness at his war crimes trial. The witness claimed Bosnian Serb forces, apart from shelling the capital Sarajevo during the 1992-1995 war, killed civilians by sniper fire.