"You may not even live to see peace and the effects of your work. But it'll be there" You once said that while you were in Sarajevo under siege, you lived with the illusion that showing the truth ...

A Bosnian worker looks out at Sarajevo through a hole in a war-damaged building that once marked the front line during the 1992?95 Bosnian War, in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, November 13, 2025.

Still from Facing Darkness, dir. Jean-Gabriel Périot, 2023 (all images courtesy Film Servis Festival Karlovy Vary) KARLOVY VARY, Czech Republic — From April 1992 to February 1996, the city of Sarajevo ...

Prosecutors in Italy are investigating one of the most horrifying stories of the year: war tourists paid to kill civilians. Multiple media outlets have claimed that wealthy people underwent ‘weekend ...

Sarajevo. Winter 1993. The Bosnian capital is under siege by Serbian nationalist forces. Artillery pieces entrenched in the surrounding hills lob shells and mortars at hospitals, markets, and schools.

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A new permanent exhibition, ‘Sarajevo Scrapbook’, displays personal items and drawings by children who were killed during the siege of the Bosnian capital during the 1990s war. This post is also ...

The siege of Sarajevo began 20 years ago this week (6 April 1992). Lasting nearly four years, it became one of the most dramatic and emblematic events of the violent breakup of the former Yugoslavia ...

Paul Lowe, a respected British photojournalist who covered major world events including the wars in the former Yugoslavia and worked for years in the Bosnian capital, has died at the age of 61. This ...

(Adds reaction in paragraphs 15,16) By Alexandra Hudson THE HAGUE, Dec 12 (Reuters) - The U.N. war crimes tribunal sentenced former Bosnian Serb general Dragomir Milosevic to 33 years imprisonment on ...

The launch of an investigation in Italy into allegations that foreigners paid to shoot at civilians during the siege of Sarajevo three decades ago has raised survivors’ hopes that people will be ...

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. 3 April 2012 The siege of Sarajevo ...