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‘The siege of Sarajevo was very hard on children, who obviously didn’t want to be stuck indoors. They would risk their lives for a little pleasure’

British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss is visiting Sarajevo to reaffirm the U.K.’s commitment to peace and stability in Bosnia amid growing fears of malign influence from Russia in the ethnically-divided Balkan country

Muhamed Fazlagić and his band escaped bullets on a frozen mountain to get to the Eurovision Song Contest, which Bosnia Herzegovina entered for the very first time in 1993

The Dublin rockers performed with local soldiers following an invite from President Volodymr Zelensky

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

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…

Thirty years have passed since the siege of Sarajevo began in April 1992. The anniversary of this key moment in the Bosnian War comes as the world sees many tragic comparisons with current events in Ukraine. Sarajevo was under siege from Serbian forces for almost four years, the longest blockade…

The international armed conflict that lasted from 1992 to 1995 led to a genocide that killed more than 100,000 people.

Sarajevo is paying a subdued tribute to the resilience of its citizens who survived the longest military siege in modern history, and commemorating thousands of others who did not