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 ...

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 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 Uborak and Sutina massacres near Mostar were the first and the largest war crimes in the Herzegovina region during the 1990s conflict. In the first in a three-part series, eyewitnesses recall the ...

For more than four centuries, the Old Bridge in Mostar reigned as the Bosnian city's defining landmark. A masterpiece of Ottoman architecture commissioned in 1566 by Suleiman the Magnificent, the ...

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 ...

"Are you 1,000 percent certain I'm not about to die?" I asked, eyeing my taxi driver with suspicion. “One million percent,” Zoran confirmed, nodding. We had just driven 30 minutes from the Bosnian ...

City has been divided on ethnic lines leading to vital services not functioning Polls have opened in the city of Mostar in the first local elections in 12 years following a dispute between parties ...

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 ...