Bosnia

Ratko Mladic, Bosnian Serb general convicted of genocide, dies in Hague detention

Ratko Mladic, one of the most notorious figures of the Bosnian war, has died in a UN detention center in The Hague while serving a life sentence.

|ByREUTERS
Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladic leaves a meeting at the airport in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina April 13, 1993.
BOSNIAN SERB leader Milorad Dodik delivers a speech in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina, in February 2025.

Sanctioning Dodik won't bring a Muslim apocalypse, just accountability for his crimes - opinion

To portray sanctions as an attack on communal balance rather than a response to individual conduct is to obscure responsibility and dissolve the distinction between law and identity.

|ByMUSTAFA CERIC
Former President of the Republic of Srpska, Milorad Dodik, gestures during a parade as Bosnian Serbs celebrate their autonomous region's statehood day with a parade of special forces and armoured vehicles in, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, January 9, 2026.

Washington letter on Bosnia sparks fears of expanding foreign influence in Europe - opinion

A congressional letter reignites debate over Bosnia’s fragile balance, Dodik’s role, and Western strategy in the Balkans.

|ByMARC ZELL, DANA LEVINSON
PEOPLE WALK in the snow-covered Trocadero square near the Eiffel Tower, as winter weather with snow and cold temperatures hits a large part of the country, in Paris, France, January 5, 2026.

Freezing weather across Europe causes flight cancellations, rail network disuption

All domestic rail services in the Netherlands were suspended early on Tuesday after an IT outage compounded disruption across the country's rail network.

|ByREUTERS

EU calls on Bosnia to address property restitution for Holocaust victims

No communal Jewish property has ever been restored to the community following the Holocaust or the Communist regime.

FEBRUARY 14, 2019ByZACK EVANS
Jewish cemetary in Sarajevo 370

Antisemitic graffiti found in two Bosnian cities

The graffiti included swastikas and the word Juden, the Inside Sarajevo news website reported.

JULY 23, 2018ByJTA
A couple enters a chapel at Sarajevo's Jewish cemetery, outside the capital

Bosnian Croat general dies after drinking poison in courtroom

Praljak drank poison seconds after United Nations judges turned down his appeal against a 20-year sentence for war crimes against Bosnian Muslims.

NOVEMBER 29, 2017ByREUTERS
A wartime commander of Bosnian Croat forces, Slobodan Praljak, is seen during a hearing at the U.N. war crimes tribunal in the Hague, Netherlands, November 29, 2017.

Bosnian school named for pro-Nazi Muslim thinker stirs Israeli protest

Citing anti-Semitic writings by Busuladzic, the Israeli Embassy expressed its disapproval of the honor in a letter to the regional government

NOVEMBER 8, 2017ByJTA
Group of students raising hands during a lesson in the classroom. [Illustrative]

Bosnian president: Don’t expect compensation for Jewish property

The total value of the property today is estimated at 3 billion euros.

MARCH 14, 2017ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
Mladen Ivanic, the chairman of the rotating presidency of Bosnia-Herzegovina, spoke to the Israel Council on Foreign Relations

‘We cannot accept Iran on our borders.’ Rivlin says to Bosnia Herzegovina

“We would like Bosnia-Herzegovina to understand our worries.”

MARCH 13, 2017ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
Reuven Rivlin

Analysis: Empty American promises and the lives they can cost

The story of Radovan Karadzic, a psychiatrist turned genocidal mini-state leader, provides lessons for Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.

MARCH 27, 2016ByDAVID ROHDE, REUTERS
A Muslim woman cries near the coffin of her relative among the 136 newly identified victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre in Potocari, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Landmark Bosnia museum, home of medieval Haggadah, to re-open after 3-year closure

The National Museum in Sarajevo harbors the Sarajevo Haggadah, the 14th century Jewish book of Passover rites seen as one of the oldest Sephardic Haggadahs.

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015ByREUTERS
Bosnia's National Museum in Sarajevo

The Srebrenica massacre must be recognized as a genocide

Approximately 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys between the ages of 12 and 77 were murdered at the hands of paramilitary Christian Bosnian-Serbian thugs.

JULY 18, 2015ByMENACHEM Z. ROSENSAFT
A woman stands in front of the Memorial Center during a reburial ceremony of 136 newly identified victims in Potocari, near Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina

WATCH: Bosnians in Vienna turn anti-Semitic, shout 'Kill, kill the Jews'

The visiting fans' pro-Palestinian protest in Vienna's central square quickly turned anti-Semitic.

APRIL 5, 2015ByJPOST.COM STAFF
Anti-semitism