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NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte speaks to the media during a joint news conference with the members of the Bosnian Presidency in Sarajevo, Bosnia, Monday, March 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Armin Durgut)
NATO chief vows ‘unwavering’ support for Bosnia’s integrity after Serb separatist actions
NATO’s secretary general on Monday pledged the military alliance’s “unwavering” support for Bosnia’s territorial integrity after a series of Bosnian Serb separatist moves raised tensions nearly 30 years after the end of a bloody war.
 
People take part in a protest seeking answers after last year's devastating floods and landslides in the country, in Sarajevo, Bosnia, Monday, Feb. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Armin Durgut)
Bosnian students rally for justice, drawing inspiration from anti-graft struggle in Serbia
Students in Bosnia and Montenegro have rallied against corruption, drawing inspiration from their fellow students in neighboring Serbia whose anti-graft protests have shaken the government and given rise to calls for political change.
 
Serbia's striking student sleeps during long protest blockades they have organized to put pressure on the populist authorities, in Novi Sad, Serbia, Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
Serbia’s striking students create ‘festival atmosphere’ to pass the time during protests
Serbia’s striking students are finding time to play, read or just hang out together during long protest blockades they organize to put pressure on the populist authorities.
 
People hold up their mobile phone lights during a minute of silence ceremony as they block the bridge during a protest over the collapse of a concrete canopy that killed multiple people more than two months ago, in Novi Sad, Serbia, Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Armin Durgut)
Serbian students blockade a Danube bridge overnight as anti-graft movement grows
Students in Serbia have blocked a Danube bridge after spending the night in tents and sleeping bags as part of their growing anti-graft movement demanding major changes in the Balkan country.
 
A man shouts during a protest over the collapse of a concrete canopy that killed 15 people more than two months ago, in Novi Sad, Serbia, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Armin Durgut)
Serbia’s students lead Danube bridge blockades as protest draws tens of thousands calling for change
Serbia’s students are leading mass protests and blockades of three bridges over the Danube river in the northern city of Novi Sad, drawing tens of thousands into the streets to express their anger with the country’s populist leadership and to call for change.
 
An aerial view of people hold up their mobile phone lights during a protest in front of a railway station where the collapse of a concrete canopy killed 15 people more than two months ago, in Novi Sad, Serbia, Friday, Jan. 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Armin Durgut)
Serbian anti-graft protesters march to a northern city and plan to block bridges
Hundreds of students have marched through the Serbian countryside, taking their anti-graft protest to the northern city of Novi Sad, where they plan to blockade three bridges over the River Danube this weekend.
 
A car is submerged in flood waters outside an apartment building in the village of Kiseljak, northern Bosnia, Friday, Oct. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Armin Durgut)
Rainstorms and heavy floods hit large parts of Bosnia, killing at least 16 people
Severe rainstorms have struck Bosnia overnight, killing at least 16 people and flooding several towns and villages in central and southern parts of the country.
 
Pilgrims recited their prayers next to the statue of the Virgin Mary inside the St. James Church in Medjugorje, Bosnia, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Armin Durgut)
Vatican gives green light to devotion at a site in Bosnia where the Madonna reportedly appeared
The Vatican has given the green light for Catholics to continue flocking to a southern Bosnian village where children reported seeing visions of the Virgin Mary.
 
A Bosnian muslim woman lays flowers at the grave of her relative, victim of the Srebrenica genocide, at the Srebrenica Memorial Centre, in Potocari, Bosnia, Thursday, July 11, 2024. Thousands gather in the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica to commemorate the 29th anniversary on Monday of Europe's only acknowledged genocide since World War II. (AP Photo/Armin Durgut)
Thousands mark 1995 Srebrenica genocide which is denied by Serbs, fueling ethnic tensions in Bosnia
Thousands of people from Bosnia and abroad have gathered in Srebrenica for the annual ritual of commemorating the 1995 genocide.
 
Sefika Mustafic kisses the grave of her son, victim of the Srebrenica genocide, at the Memorial Center in Potocari, Bosnia, Wednesday, May 22, 2024. On May 23, the United Nations General Assembly will be voting on a draft resolution declaring July 11 the International Day of Reflection and Commemoration of the 1995 genocide in Srebrenica. (AP Photo/Armin Durgut)
Bosnian Serb leader reiterates threat to secede from Bosnia ahead of UN vote on genocide
The two leaders say the resolution would brand all Serbs as genocidal, although the draft does not explicitly mention Serbs as culprits. Both Serbia and Bosnian Serbs have denied that genocide happened in Srebrenica although this has been established by two U.N. courts.
 
Aerial view of waste floating in the Drina river near Visegrad, Bosnia, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024. Tons of waste dumped in poorly regulated riverside landfills or directly into the rivers across three Western Balkan countries end up accumulating during high water season in winter and spring, behind a trash barrier in the Drina River in eastern Bosnia. (AP Photo/Armin Durgut)
Tons of trash clogs a river in Bosnia. It’s a seasonal problem that activists want an end to
Tons of garbage floats down a river at least twice a year and ends up near the eastern Bosnian town of Visegrad behind a barrier installed by a local hydroelectric plant.
 
In this photo provided by the US Embassy in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a US Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon flies as part of joint air-to-ground training involving American and Bosnian forces, on Monday, Jan. 8, 2024. Two U.S. fighter jets flew over Bosnia on Monday in a demonstration of support for the Balkan country's integrity in the face of increasingly secessionist policies of the Bosnian Serb pro-Russia leader Milorad Dodik. (US Embassy in Bosnia and Herzegovina via AP)
US fighter jets fly over Bosnia in a sign of support to the country as Serbs call for secession
Two U.S. fighter jets flew over Bosnia in a demonstration of support for the Balkan country’s integrity in the face of increasingly secessionist policies of the Bosnian Serb pro-Russia leader Milorad Dodik. The U.S.
 
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen speaks to the media during a joint news conference with the President of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina Borjana Kristo in Sarajevo, Bosnia, Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Armin Durgut)
European Commission’s chief tells Bosnia to unite in seeking EU membership
The European Commission chief urged Bosnia to “with one voice” if it wants to move forward in an effort to join the European Union after gaining candidate status last year.
 
In this photo taken with a drone, an aerial view of the Srebrenica Genocide Memorial Center and the newly dug grave is seen in Potocari, Bosnia, Monday, July 10, 2023. Newly-identified Srebrenica massacre victims are reburied annually on July 11. (AP Photo/Armin Durgut)
In Srebrenica, thousands gather to remember the 1995 massacre and bury the newly identified dead
Thousands of people have gathered in Srebrenica, in eastern Bosnia, for the annual commemoration of the 1995 massacre and to give a dignified burial to victims unearthed from mass graves and only recently identified through DNA analysis.
 
United States Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina Michael J. Murphy kneels next to the coffins containing remains of 30 newly identified victims of the Srebrenica Genocide in Potocari, Bosnia, Monday, July 10, 2023. The remains of 30 recently identified victims of the Srebrenica genocide, Europe's only acknowledged genocide since World War II, arrived at the Memorial center in Potocari where they will be buried on July 11. (AP Photo/Armin Durgut)
Jews and Muslims come together at Srebrenica anniversary of Europe’s only post-World War II genocide
Jews and Muslims have come together in Bosnia on the eve of the 28th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre, Europe’s only acknowledged genocide since the Holocaust.
 
Bosnian Muslim men pray before the start of the "March of Peace", march to remember the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, in Nezuk, Bosnia, Saturday, July 8, 2023. A solemn peace march started on Saturday through forests in eastern Bosnia in memory of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, Europe's only acknowledged genocide since World War II. The 100-kilometre (60-mile) march traces a route taken by Bosniak men and boys as they tried to flee Srebrenica after it was captured by Bosnian Serb forces in the closing days of the country's interethnic war in the 1990s. (AP Photo/Armin Durgut)
Thousands march in Bosnia to mark 1995 Srebrenica genocide as ethnic tensions linger on
A solemn peace march has started through forests in eastern Bosnia in memory of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, Europe’s only acknowledged genocide since World War II.
 
Bosnia commemorates 26th anniversary of Srebrenica massacre
Thousands of people in Bosnia have gathered to commemorate the 26th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre. The slaughter is the only episode of the country’s 1992-95 war that has been declared a genocide by international and national courts.
 
Trash fills Bosnia river faster than workers can pull it out
Environmental activists in Bosnia are warning that tons of garbage floating down the Balkan country’s rivers are endangering the local ecosystem and people’s health.
 
25 years on, Srebrenica dead still being identified, buried
A quarter of a century after they were killed in Srebrenica, eight Bosnian men and boys will be laid to rest Saturday.
 
Activists warn Balkan rivers at risk from hydropower plants
Unspoiled rivers in the Balkans are facing new dangers from small hydropower plants that have sprouted up across the region in recent years, environmental experts warned Thursday.
 
Bosnian border police sound alarm over migration pressure
The chief of Bosnia’s border police warms that his guards cannot contain the migratory pressure along the country’s eastern border with Serbia.
 
Water cut to migrant camp as Bosnian authorities feud
Local authorities in the Bosnian town of Bihac on Monday cut off a nearby migrant camp’s water supply, to pressure the government into reducing the population of the overcrowded site that international organizations have criticized as unsuitable.
 
Bosnia’s 1st LGBT parade defies threats, urges tolerance
Bosnia’s embattled LGBT community will defy threats of violence to hold the Balkan country’s first ever pride parade this weekend and appeal for tolerance and unity in a society torn by war-era divisions and gripped by poverty.
 
Erdogan attends Srebrenica victims commemoration in Bosnia
Thousands of people, including Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, have attended a commemoration ceremony in Sarajevo ahead of the 24th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre, the worst mass killing in Europe since World War II.
 
Iron Maiden singer made honorary citizen of Bosnia’s capital
Bosnia’s capital city has made Iron Maiden lead singer Bruce Dickinson an honorary citizen to show appreciation for a concert he performed while Sarajevo was under siege during the 1992-95 Bosnian war.
 
Thousands mark 21 years since Srebrenica massacre
Thousands have gathered in Srebrenica to mark the 21st anniversary of Europe’s worst mass murder since the Holocaust and to attend the funeral of 127 newly-found victims.