But when Bosnia declared its independence from Yugoslavia that spring, the Serbs opposed the creation of a state with a Bosniak (or Bosnian Muslim) majority. Conflict broke out, though it seemed ...

Radinko Stevanovic is accused of war crimes for his alleged involvement in the “systematic” killings of Bosniak civilians at a slaughterhouse in Karakaj, near Zvornik, in June 1992. This post ...

In fact, many Bosniak Muslims have taken Croatian citizenship, betraying little actual belief in a Bosnian construct. Bosnia-Herzegovina has not moved on from the 1995 Dayton Accords, which ended ...

In July 1995, more than 7,000 Bosniak men and boys from Srebrenica were killed in a series of massacres by Bosnian Serb forces, and over 40,000 women, children and elderly people were expelled ...

For a while, each ethnic group (Bosniaks, Croats, and Serbs) had their own armed forces. The Croat and Bosniak Armies were merged only with the U.S.-backed founding the Federation in 1994. The BiH ...

Washington’s embassy in the Balkan nation congratulated Bosnia after lawmakers from the highly decentralized country’s Bosniak-Croat entity voted through the text. Bosnia is made up of two ...