ZAGREB

US-led air strikes near the Syrian town of Raqqa wounded a Croatian citizen named as 27-year-old Dora Bilic and killed her Bosnian companion, Fatima Mahmutovic.

Zagreb born Bilic reportedly converted to Islam while in London and went to Syria in 2012 alongside her husband.

ZAGREB - Serbia exploits the least amount of natural resources in the Western Balkans, where the biggest demand on the environment comes from Slovenia, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) says in its latest report.

ZAGREB - Commemorations were held on Sunday for Serb civilians slain in the wake of Croatia's military operation Storm in the Varivode and Gosic villages in the Sibenik-Knin county, the Serb National Council (SNV) in Croatia said in a statement.

The pair made up of Romanian tennisman Horia Tecau and Dutchman Jean-Julien Rojer has won the doubles' event of the 590,230-dollar ATP tournament in Shenzhen (China), after disposing of Australians Sam Groth/Chris Guccione in the final by 6-4, 7-6 (4).

BELGRADE - Croatian director Ivica Buljan's play A Tomb for Boris Davidovic, made after Danilo Kis's famous collection of short stories bearing the same name, was performed for the first time in Belgrade on Friday as part of the main programme of the 48th Bitef.

Retired general Karlo Gornisek told Zagreb county court on Friday that the notorious ‘Mercepovci' police unit, colloquially named after their alleged commander Mercep, a former interior ministry adviser, might not actually have been led by the defendant.

VUKOVAR - The bilingual sign on the Vukovar police building was damaged by a person from the area of Zagreb on Tuesday evening, who was taken in for questioning and then released, the Vukovar-Srem police stated on Wednesday.

The Board in Vukovar was taken off by citizen of Zagreb

VUKOVAR -- The board with bilingual inscription on the building of Vukovar Police station was broken by the man from Zagreb.

VUKOVAR - Members of the Headquarters for Defense of Croat Vukovar removed all bilingual signs in the city after the wreath-laying ceremony at the Memorial Cemetery to mark the constitution of the 204th Vukovar Brigade and offenders were brought in for questioning at the local police station.

A new temporary memorial was unveiled in a park in the Croatian capital to honour thousands of people who were executed there by Zagreb’s wartime Ustasa pro-Nazi regime.