A former Bosnian Croat general has died after apparently swallowing poison as a judge at the Hague upheld his 20-year sentence for war crimes. Footage from the International Criminal Tribunal for the ...

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The Nobel committee sparked controversy by awarding its 2019 literature prize to Austrian author Peter Handke, who expressed sympathy for Serbian strongman leader Slobodan Milosevic. This post is also ...

The U.S. began evacuating embassy staff and their families from Belgrade, Serbia, Friday after rioters attacked the American embassy to protest U.S. support for Kosovo's independence. Experts on the ...

In an 800-page document sent to BIRN several months before his public suicide, Bosnian Croat wartime general Slobodan Praljak tried to rewrite history and dispute court-established facts to absolve ...

A stout figure, with a dense thatch of grey hair, stabs at the air with indignant fingers and raps out orders to an underling. Through the thick smoke in the room, it is almost possible to believe ...

Unraveling: New Spaces. Serbian Exhibition at the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale. Image © Luca Capuano, Courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia ...

CHARMING when he wanted to be, clever, in a cunning way, and devoted to his wife: that would be about the sum of any verdict on Slobodan Milosevic were the obituarist to follow the Roman injunction to ...

O antigo líder político dos sérvios Radovan Karadzic acaba de ser condenado pelo Tribunal Penal Internacional para a ex-Jugoslávia (TPIJ) a 40 anos de prisão por crimes de genocídio, crimes contra a ...