In the eight years since the Dayton peace agreement put an end to a three-sided war in Bosnia, the country has become a kind of laboratory for nation building. Americans and Europeans have tried to ...

Citizens in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s ethnically divided town of Mostar have voted for their city councillors for the first time in 12 years, after the rival Croat and Bosniak parties that rule the ...

On November 9, 1993, one of Bosnia-Herzegovina's cultural treasures became a casualty of war. The Old Bridge in Mostar, built in 1566 during the Ottoman Empire, was destroyed by shells fired by ...

Mostar is not what I expected. Bosnia is not what I expected. After several weeks travelling through Slovenia and Croatia, I found the people of Bosnia to be the friendliest, and the food to be the ...

MOSTAR, Bosnia, Dec 20 (Reuters) - Preliminary results from the first local election in 12 years in the Bosnian town of Mostar on Sunday showed most votes going to the Croat and Bosniak parties whose ...

The Mostar Bridge was more than a structure for us, said Eldin Palata, who recorded the historic footage of its collapse from artillery shells fired by Croatian troops in 1993. Bosnia-Herzegovina on ...

The bloodiest conflicts in Europe since WWII, the Yugoslav Wars in the 1990s had a devastating effect that some areas still haven't recovered from. The city of Mostar, which now lies in the southern ...

Thirty years after the Ottoman-era Old Bridge in the Bosnian city of Mostar was brought down by artillery fire, a soldier who captured its collapse on video looks back on the destruction and ...

The historic town of Mostar, spanning a deep valley of the Neretva River, developed in the 15th and 16th centuries as an Ottoman frontier town and during the Austro-Hungarian period in the 19th and ...

The Orthodox cathedral of the Holy Trinity is still not ready for Christmas mass. But its story and the quest to bring it back is one of resilience. Mostar’s rich skyline, with mosques and Catholic ...

After the passage of so many years it is not the sight of Mostar's Old Bridge that I remember so much as the touch of it. In the summer of 1988 I was in Mostar on holiday with my mother. "Feel the ...