The Hague-based war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia handed down its most high-profile verdict yet, Thursday sentencing former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic to 40 years in jail after ...

Vladimir Putin learned lessons from the Balkan wars of the 1990s that the rest of the world ignored or has forgotten. He invokes an obviously false parallel between the NATO bombing of Serbia and ...

Organised crime flourished during and after the Balkan wars in the 1990s, with crime networks exploiting porous borders, a glut of cheap firearms and political and security establishments riddled with ...

‘Weekend warriors’ were volunteer fighters who popped in and out of war zones in the 1990s. Many came from Montenegro, but few have ever faced justice for the war crimes they committed. In May 1992, ...

GENEVA, Jan. 30 (UNHCR) - Long-term stability in the Balkans is directly linked to the fate of an estimated one million people who remain uprooted as a result of the region's wars, High Commissioner ...

BELGRADE -- Serbs in Belgrade and close followers of their memorialization of the Balkan wars of the 1990s are responding coolly to word that Serbian officials are surprisingly advanced in talks for ...

The six Balkan states -- which during the 1990s formed the battleground to Europe's deadliest conflict since World War II that led to the break-up of former Yugoslavia -- are currently at different ...

Ahead of the judgement Wednesday of Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic, here is a timeline of the 1990s Balkans conflicts that tore apart the former Yugoslavia. - Bickering after Tito dies - ...