Police broke up a suspected terror cell Saturday and arrested five North Africans, including the alleged leader who Italian officials said recruited Islamic extremists for attacks in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Former Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic, who has been indicted on war crimes charges, plans to defend himself in front of a U.N. tribunal, his lawyer said.
Radovan Karadzic's arrest after a decade-long hunt is the equivalent of catching Europe's Osama bin Laden, the U.S. diplomat who brokered peace in Bosnia says.
Radovan Karadzic, whose Interpol charges listed "flamboyant behavior" as a distinguishing characteristic, was a practicing psychiatrist who came to be nicknamed the "Butcher of Bosnia."
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 Bosniaks had lived in seeming harmony before the war, then suffered horribly when its warring neighborhoods turned the city into a killing zone -- provided me with one of the richest experiences of my travel year.
These days Croatia's Dalmatian Coast is inundated with tourists -- and understandably so. But after a visit to Dubrovnik, the "Pearl of the Adriatic," I'm in the mood for a good Balkan adventure and decide to drive directly inland ... to Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Police broke up a suspected terror cell Saturday and arrested five North Africans, including the alleged leader who Italian officials said recruited Islamic extremists for attacks in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Former Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic, who has been indicted on war crimes charges, plans to defend himself in front of a U.N. tribunal, his lawyer said.
Radovan Karadzic's arrest after a decade-long hunt is the equivalent of catching Europe's Osama bin Laden, the U.S. diplomat who brokered peace in Bosnia says.
Radovan Karadzic, whose Interpol charges listed "flamboyant behavior" as a distinguishing characteristic, was a practicing psychiatrist who came to be nicknamed the "Butcher of Bosnia."
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 Bosniaks had lived in seeming harmony before the war, then suffered horribly when its warring neighborhoods turned the city into a killing zone -- provided me with one of the richest experiences of my travel year.
These days Croatia's Dalmatian Coast is inundated with tourists -- and understandably so. But after a visit to Dubrovnik, the "Pearl of the Adriatic," I'm in the mood for a good Balkan adventure and decide to drive directly inland ... to Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Markale market is awash in the lush oranges, reds, greens and yellows of fresh fruit and vegetables. But 16 years ago, when the Bosnian war broke out, produce disappeared from the stalls of Sarajevo, and some days the only color was blood red.
A campaign gaffe by former President Bill Clinton on his wife's tale about a trip to Bosnia got attention Friday -- sparking questions on whether he's becoming a big problem for her presidential campaign.
Sen. Hillary Clinton said she "misspoke" last week when she gave a dramatic description of her arrival in Bosnia 12 years ago, recounting a landing under sniper fire.
Hundreds of Bosnian-Serb demonstrators broke away from a peaceful rally in Banja Luka on Tuesday and headed for the U.S. Embassy's office there, clashing with police along the way, a police spokesman said.
Authorities said Tuesday they arrested a second Bosnian suspect in an apparent plot to bomb the U.S. Embassy in Vienna, and that the would-be bomber had contacted the embassy beforehand
Nearly 18,000 people are still missing from the ethnic wars fought in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, the International Committee of the Red Cross said Thursday.
The Bosnian war crimes chamber sentenced a Bosnian Serb former paramilitary on Friday to 12 years in prison for the persecution, detention and torture of Muslims in eastern Bosnia early in the 1992-95 war.
Bill Y. of Canandaigua, in New York's Finger Lakes district, is not ready to let go of the matter of Michael Vick and the fighting dogs and the whole area of Roger Goodell's crackdown on the NFL's bad boys. OK, I've already expressed myself on where I stand on animal torture, but now I'll broaden this to include the whole area of superior athletes who get in trouble.
Britain is withdrawing more than 600 troops from Bosnia and Herzegovina, a move that basically ends 15 years of a "continuous UK military presence" in the Balkan country, the Defense Ministry said on Thursday.
Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, 64, died in The Hague Saturday, Netherlands, just months before his war crimes trial before the U.N. international war crimes tribunal was expected to end.
Bosnian Serb police said on Wednesday they launched a dawn search in a mountainous region of eastern Bosnia often reported to be a hideout of top Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic.
Days before people gather to remember the 10-year anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre, police have found explosives near the memorial for the 1995 killings, according to a Bosnian Serb police spokesman.
Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian-Serb leader, is accused of having been responsible for running concentration-style detention camps, and the massacre at the NATO so-called safe haven of Srebrenica.
The alleged recruiter of six Yemeni-Americans from upstate New York who went to al Qaeda military training camps in the summer of 2001 denies recruiting the men or being connected to the terrorist organization linked to the September 11 attacks.
The International Committee of the Red Cross said Thursday almost 17,000 people are still missing in Bosnia and Herzegovina 10 years after the end of the Bosnian conflict.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- Slobodan Milosevic is on trial at the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague on charges of masterminding ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia.
War crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic is believed to be holed up in the border regions of Serbia and Bosnia, Serbia's pro-Western president is reported to have said.
The U.N. war crimes tribunal cut former Bosnian Croat General Tihomir Blaskic's 45-year jail sentence to nine years on appeal on Thursday, acquitting him of more than a dozen ethnic cleansing charges from the Bosnian war.
Bosnia's former Ambassador to the United Nations, who is fighting extradition in an embezzlement investigation, has been released from prison after posting $6 million bail.
The city of Mostar, a symbol like Sarajevo of the bloody end of Yugoslavia, is celebrating the reopening of its rebuilt 16th century bridge that some hope can help reconcile Muslims and Croats.
Former President Bill Clinton sat down with CNN's Christiane Amanpour to talk about foreign policy during his presidency and today's security challenges. Here is a transcript of that interview.
NATO troops have carried out searches in Bosnia's Serb Republic a day after the West's peace envoy sacked 60 senior Serb officials for failure to arrest top war crimes fugitive Radovan Karadzic.
The U.N. High Representative to Bosnia Wednesday sacked 60 high-level Serb officials because they failed to arrest suspected war criminals, calling their lack of action a "sustained, long-term, gross refusal."
Chief U.N. war crimes prosecutor for the former Yugoslavia, Carla Del Ponte, says she is optimistic that former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic will be in custody by the end of the day Wednesday.
Government leaders and heads of state have been paying their last respects to Macedonia's late president, Boris Trajkovski, who died last week in a plane crash.
Amid accusations that a Saudi-based Islamic charity has financed terrorist groups, including al Qaeda, Saudi Arabia's King Fahd said the kingdom is moving to change the way it raises charity funds abroad.
Macedonia's leadership is considering how and when to organize a vote to elect a new head of state after President Boris Trajkovski was killed in a plane crash.
Rescuers have recovered the body of Macedonia's president and eight others killed in a plane crash in a remote and mountainous region of Bosnia, a NATO spokesman has said.
Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski, a moderate credited for helping to unite his ethnically divided country, is feared to have been killed in a plane crash in southeastern Bosnia.
News that Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic is living in Belgrade, according to war crimes prosecutor Carla del Ponte, has put the spotlight back on the U.N.'s most wanted man.
The United States and Saudi Arabia are asking for international help to block the assets of a Muslim charity accused of backing terrorist groups, including al Qaeda.
A spokesman for front-running Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean says there's no contradiction between his opposition to the war in Iraq and his call for unilateral U.S. airstrikes on Serb forces in Bosnia in 1995.
NATO forces launched a "large-scale operation" Saturday morning in Bosnia to hunt for a wanted war crimes suspect, according to a spokesman with the NATO Stabilization Force.
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