Bosnia
Ratko Mladic to make first war crimes court appearance
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June 03, 2011Ex-Bosnian Serb army head Ratko Mladic is due to make his first appearance at The Hague war crimes tribunal. He was arrested last week in Serbia after 16 years on the run from charges of having committed atrocities during the 1992-95 Bosnian war. His...
Ratko Mladic awaits war crimes trial in The Hague
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June 01, 2011Former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic has spent his first night in UN custody in the Netherlands, awaiting trial on genocide charges. The 69-year-old was admitted to the detention unit in The Hague on Tuesday and placed in an isolation...
Ratko Mladic to file appeal against Hague extradition
May 30, 2011Former Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic is to file an appeal later against his extradition to the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague. His family says Gen Mladic is too sick to travel, but the Serbian government is expected to reject the appeal....
Mladic: Serbia police on alert for nationalist protests
May 29, 2011Serbian police are stepping up security ahead of a rally by ultra-nationalists angry at the arrest of ex-Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic. The Serbian Radical Party insists the protest in Belgrade will be peaceful. A similar rally in 2008 over the...
Mladic due at extradition hearing
May 27, 2011Former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic is due back in court in the Serbian capital Belgrade for the resumption of an extradition hearing. The session against the 69-year-old was halted on Thursday when his lawyer said he was in "poor...
Germany extends three of its foreign military deployments
November 11, 2010German troops deployed with European Union forces in Bosnia and off the coast of Somalia will continue their mission for another year. The government will also extend its role in a NATO mission in the Mediterranean. The German government has decided...
EU scrapping South Caucasus, Moldova envoys
May 31, 2010The reported decision by the EU's foreign policy chief would seem to signal a downgrading of the bloc's involvement in its eastern neighborhood. In a signal of waning interest in its eastern neighborhood, the European Union's foreign policy chief, Cathering...
Retired US General: Gay Dutch troops contributed to Srebrenica massacre
March 19, 2010By Michael Bowman A former top U.S. and NATO commander says the Netherlands' inclusion of gays in their military rendered Dutch peacekeeping troops unable to prevent the slaughter of thousands of Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica in 1995. Retired U.S. Marine...
Bosnia-EU association agreement initialed
December 05, 2007The European Union and the Bosnian government have initialed an association agreement, seen as a step toward EU membership. The stabilization and association agreement was initialed by EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn and Bosnia-Herzegovina Prime...
UN Court Says Serbia Not Responsible For Bosnian Genocide
February 26, 2007The United Nations' highest court ruled today that Serbia was not directly responsible for genocide or conspiring to commit genocide during the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) said Serbia should have made...