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 ...

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 ...