The war in Bosnia-Hercegovina was part of a series of conflicts which tore apart the socialist federation of Yugoslavia, created by Josip Broz Tito at the end of WWII.

1914 - A Bosnian Serb student, Gavrilo Princip, assassinates Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, precipitating World War One. 1918 - Austria-Hungary collapses at the end of the war.

Serb forces besieged the town at the start of the Bosnian 1992-95 war, shelling it and preventing U.N. food convoys from reaching it. The U.N. Security Council declared the town a safe haven ...

The Balkans has a long and colourful history sitting between western and eastern Europe and at the gateway to the near east. It is here that cultures and religions have clashed for centuries during ...

Srebrenica Timeline July 04, 2005 11:06 CET Share . Print. A Muslim woman mourns ... The single bloodiest event of the 1992-95 Bosnian war, ...

Its prewar population, with surrounding villages, was 36,666 — 27,572 Bosnian Muslims, the rest Bosnian Serbs and Croats. Now, most of the 10,000 people in the region are Serbs. They are mostly ...

London — More than 25 years after a brutal war tore Bosnia apart and left more than 100,000 people dead, the country is once again mired in a political crisis that some fear could push it back ...

A look back at the 1995 Srebrenica massacre in Bosnia.The town and its peopleNear the Serbian border, Srebrenica, or silver town, is named after the ore mined by the Romans. Its prewar population ...