The Latest Breaking News from Bosnia

French photojournalist and war photographer Patrick Chauvel has covered over thirty conflicts, from Vietnam to Bosnia and Iraq – and now Ukraine. He explains how his early appetite for adventure soon evolved into an impulse that would go on to shape his life profoundly: a desire to tell the stories…

Ten people have been charged for their alleged role in the killing of retreating Yugoslav army soldiers in 1992.

Survivors of war crimes committed during Bosnia’s 1992-95 war say the victims of ongoing human rights abuses in Ukraine should learn from their experience of fighting for justice, but that they must first make peace with the fact that reaching it will inevitably be a lengthy and painful process

The grotesque images of civilians being slaughtered in Ukraine echo the horrors I witnessed covering the war in Bosnia three decades ago, and President Joe Biden was right to use the word “genocide” to describe the mass murder Russia is committing in Ukraine.

International politics is usually discussed in terms of historical periods associated with specific characteristics — think Cold War adversaries, wars fought for ostensibly humanitarian reasons in the 1990s or the focus on terrorism and state-building during the War on Terror.

Though confronted with the depth of human depravity, I never felt true desperation during my time in Bosnia. It is the wanton destruction in Ukraine that is impossible to stomach.

An author who escaped the siege of Sarajevo in Bosnia in the mid-1990s has told FRANCE 24 how the war in Ukraine has brought many of his terrible memories back. Semezdin Mehmedinovic made it out of Sarajevo to the US, arriving there as a refugee in 1996. He then wrote…

Britain has sanctioned two leading Bosnian-Serb politicians

Liz Truss said that with these ‘tough sanctions we are showing that the enemies of peace will be held to account’.