Latest News from Bosnia and Herzegovina

EUFOR key to BiH's Euro-Atlantic membership

EUFOR key to BiH's Euro-Atlantic membership

Officials agree on the importance of EUFOR's continued presence in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

With the presence of EUFOR ALTHEA troops still an important and visible part of EU efforts to bolster Bosnia and Herzegovina's European path, the UN Security Council has moved to extend the deployment for another year.

Bosnia's New Parliament Divides up Key Posts

Sefik Dzaferovic, of the [mainly Bosniak] Party of Democratic Action, SDA, was named president of the House of Representatives, one of two chambers of Bosnia's state-level parliament, in a vote at the first session on December 9.

Dacic, Trisic-Babic on regional cooperation

BELGRADE - Ivica Dacic, Serbian first deputy prime minister and minister of foreign affairs, conferred with Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia-Herzegovina Ana Trisic-Babic on regional issues and promotion of the regional cooperation.

Two former Bosnian Army members arrested for war crimes

Two former Bosnian Army members arrested for war crimes

SARAJEVO -- A former member of the Army of Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) has been arrested on suspicion that he committed war crimes against Serb civilians.

Zaim Lalicic arrested for suspected war crime against Serbs

SARAJEVO - Bosnia and Herzegovina's State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA) has arrested Bosnia and Herzegovina national Zaim Lalicic in Sarajevo's Ilidza district on orders from the prosecutor's office on suspicion of a war crime against Serb civilians in Hrasnica in 1992 and 1993.

Serbia drawn to tough EuroBasket group

Serbia drawn to tough EuroBasket group

PARIS -- The Serbian men's national basketball team has been drawn to play in EuroBasket 2015 Group B along with Spain, Turkey, Italy, Iceland and hosts Germany.

The draw took place at Disneyland Paris on Monday.

Serbia to play Spain, Germany, Turkey at FIBA EuroBasket

PARIS - The Serbian men's national basketball team has been drawn to play in EuroBasket 2015 Group B in Berlin, and will take on Spain, Turkey, Italy, Iceland and hosts Germany.

The draw ceremony took place at Disneyland Paris on Monday.

VIDEO: Searching for Solutions in the Balkans

This is the first debate in the Balkan Forum series supported by the European Fund for the Balkans and produced in cooperation between Europarl TV from Brussels and NOVATV from Skopje.

The debate hosts MEPs Ivo Weigel, Edward Kukan and Miltijadis Kirkos, and professor and director of the Centre for Southeast European Studies at the University of Graz, Austria Florian Bieber.

Strpci crime suspects remanded in 30-day custody

BELGRADE - The Belgrade High Court has imposed a custodial sentence of 30 days at the proposal of the War Crime Prosecutor's Office for persons suspected of partaking in the kidnap and murder of 20 train passengers near the village Strpci, Bosnia-Herzegovina, in 1993.

Joksimovic: EU path unequivocal for Serbia

BELGRADE - Serbian minister without portfolio in charge of European integration Jadranka Joksimovic underscored on Friday that Serbia needs to gradually adjust its foreign policy to the EU, but she also underscored that it needs to be kept in mind at all times that the country has not opened any chapters in the accession talks yet.

"Macedonian president was dead before plane crashed"

"Macedonian president was dead before plane crashed"

SKOPJE -- A draft report about the 2004 plane crash in which Macedonian President Boris Trajkoviski lost his life states the victims were dead before the aircraft fell.

The draft was handed to the Macedonian authorities by Omer Kulic, who chairs an international commission that investigated the crash.

Arrests made over Balkan war massacre in joint operation

Atifa Memovic last saw her husband two decades ago, but she remembers it as if it were yesterday. It was snowing, and Fikret, a railway worker, was wearing a jeans jacket with winter lining, a gray sweater over a checkered shirt, and on his wrist a Seiko watch. He kissed her and promised to be back on the afternoon train.

He never made it.

Arrests for 1993 Strpci station train kidnappings

Arrests for 1993 Strpci station train kidnappings

BELGRADE, SARAJEVO -- Five persons have been arrested in Serbia and ten in Bosnia-Herzegovina on suspicion that they took part in the 1993 kidnapping of train passengers.

The train was traveling on the Belgrade-Bar line when 20 passengers were taken out and later killed.

Serbia, Bosnia Arrest 15 in War Crimes Swoop

In a joint operation, Serbia and Bosnia arrested 15 people suspected of seizing 20 passengers from a train in the Bosnian town of Strpci during wartime in 1993 and killing them.

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