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 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 ...
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 ...
Three former Croatian Defence Council fighters were sentenced to a total of 16 years in prison for crimes against civilians in the Mostar area in 1993 including unlawful arrests, mistreatment of ...
A symbol of Bosnia's devastation in the 1990s war, Mostar's iconic Ottoman-era bridge was later rebuilt to its former glory. But residents of the southern city remain sharply segregated by ethnicity.
On April 6, Bosnia-Herzegovina marked the 21st anniversary of its 1992-95 war, which finds the Balkan country deeply divided, with power shared uneasily between Serbs, Croats, and Muslims in an ...