A Bosnian worker looks out at Sarajevo through a hole in a war-damaged building that once marked the front line during the 1992?95 Bosnian War, in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, November 13, 2025.

"You may not even live to see peace and the effects of your work. But it'll be there" You once said that while you were in Sarajevo under siege, you lived with the illusion that showing the truth ...

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April 6 marks the 20th anniversary of the start of the Bosnian war and the siege of Sarajevo. It was the longest siege of a capital city in modern history, and produced the worst atrocities in Europe ...

People in Sarajevo marked the anniversary of the beginning of the four-year wartime siege of the Bosnian capital by placing 11,451 pairs of shoes on the streets – a pair for each person who died. This ...

Sarajevo. Winter 1993. The Bosnian capital is under siege by Serbian nationalist forces. Artillery pieces entrenched in the surrounding hills lob shells and mortars at hospitals, markets, and schools.

Still from Facing Darkness, dir. Jean-Gabriel Périot, 2023 (all images courtesy Film Servis Festival Karlovy Vary) KARLOVY VARY, Czech Republic — From April 1992 to February 1996, the city of Sarajevo ...

In the hills above Sarajevo, thousands of uniform white headstones line the slopes, marking the graves of just some of the victims of the Bosnian War. They're a constant reminder of the bloody ...

SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Hollywood actor Orlando Bloom said on Tuesday he was stepping aside from the big productions that made him a star to work in a film about life in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo ...

THE HAGUE, Jan 11 (Reuters) - A former Bosnian Serb commander charged with the shelling of Sarajevo that killed thousands and creating a "state of terror" during the Bosnian war goes on trial at the U ...

The siege of Sarajevo began 20 years ago this week (6 April 1992). Lasting nearly four years, it became one of the most dramatic and emblematic events of the violent breakup of the former Yugoslavia ...

The launch of an investigation in Italy into allegations that foreigners paid to shoot at civilians during the siege of Sarajevo three decades ago has raised survivors’ hopes that people will be ...