The modern-day countries of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia both originated from Yugoslavia. The majority of population in both countries speak one of the standard varieties of Serbo-Croatian and Serbia is one of the largest investors in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The Bosnian War[b] (Serbo-Croatian: Rat u Bosni i Hercegovini / Рат у Босни и Херцеговини) was an international armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995. The war is commonly seen as having started on 6 April 1992, following several earlier violent incidents.

Mar 18, 2025 · The Bosnian War was an ethnically rooted war that took place from 1992 to 1995 in Bosnia and Herzegovina. After years of bitter fighting between Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims), Serbs, and Croats as well as the Yugoslav army, a NATO-imposed final …

13 hours ago · According to that deal’s terms, the two main entities in Bosnia—the Bosniak- and Croat-dominated Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Serbian-dominated Republika Srpska—can veto national policy changes. Representation is centered on these three main ethnic groups. And even with these arrangements, the country’s government must ...

Nov 6, 2021 · Thousands of Muslim men and boys were murdered by Bosnian Serb forces. Their leaders were later convicted of war crimes and the massacre has been recognized as a genocide by the...

Mar 10, 2025 · NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte has pledged the military alliance’s “unwavering” support for Bosnia and Herzegovina’s federal government after a series of separatist moves from Bosnian...

Mar 6, 2025 · SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Bosnian officials on Thursday challenged a set of laws barring the state judiciary and police from operating in the Serb-controlled part of the country. The contentious legislation has fueled tensions in the ethnically-divided Balkan country.

Feb 26, 2025 · A top state-level court in Sarajevo on Wednesday sentenced Milorad Dodik, president of a Serb-majority federal entity in Bosnia and Herzegovina, to one year in prison and barred him from politics for six years for pushing through legislation in defiance of the country’s Constitutional Court and circumventing established legal procedures.

Mar 14, 2025 · IMAGE: Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik (C) delivers a speech in Banja Luka, northern Bosnia and Herzegovina, on February 26, 2025, following Dodik’s sentencing on February 26, 2025, to a year in prison in a landmark trial for defying rulings made by an international envoy charged with overseeing the country’s peace accords.

The Bosnian War was an international armed conflict that took place between the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Bosnian Serb and Bosnian Croat entities within Bosnia and Herzegovina, Republika Srpska, and Herzeg-Bosnia. Explain the events of the Bosnian War.