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 ...
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 ...
The city of Mostar lies at a crossroads of cultures: just inland from the Adriatic coast, in the southern part of Bosnia-Herzegovina. Mostar — where Orthodox Serbs, Catholic Croats, and Muslim ...
Three former Croatian Defence Council fighters were sentenced to a total of 16 years in prison for crimes against civilians in the Mostar area in 1993 including unlawful arrests, mistreatment of ...
A symbol of Bosnia's devastation in the 1990s war, Mostar's iconic Ottoman-era bridge was later rebuilt to its former glory. But residents of the southern city remain sharply segregated by ethnicity.
On April 6, Bosnia-Herzegovina marked the 21st anniversary of its 1992-95 war, which finds the Balkan country deeply divided, with power shared uneasily between Serbs, Croats, and Muslims in an ...