A court has cleared the Netherlands of liability in the deaths of most of the 8,000 Bosnian Muslims slain in the Srebrenica massacre 19 years ago.

Former Bosnian Serb wartime commander Ratko Mladic contested charges of deliberately shelling civilians during the siege of Sarajevo, one of the worst atrocities of the Balkan wars of the 1990s.

Former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic has dismissed the United Nations’ Yugoslav war crimes tribunal as a “satanic court” and refused to appear as a defence witness for his former political master, Radovan Karadzic.

The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in the Hague has convicted a former senior Bosnian Serb Army commander of genocide and sentenced him to life imprisonment.

An Irish army officer who played a key role with the UN during the Balkans war is due to give crucial evidence at the trial of Serb general Ratko Mladic in The Hague.

Former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic was back in court today for his genocide trial at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal after recovering from a health scare that saw him rushed to hospital last week.

Ratko Mladic's genocide trial was halted for the second day running because the former Bosnian Serb military commander was still undergoing medical tests after being rushed to hospital yesterday.

Former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic has been taken to hospital after complaining of feeling unwell at his genocide trial.

On the 17th anniversary of Europe’s worst massacre since the Second World War, Muslims in Bosnia are heading to Srebrenica to attend a funeral for 520 newly identified victims.

General Ratko Mladic threatened to wipe out the civilian populations of enclaves in eastern Bosnia in a chilling foreshadowing of the Srebrenica massacre, a former United Nations official told the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal.

The first witness is set to give evidence at the resumed war crimes trial of former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic, about Serb forces violently purging his village in 1992.

Former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic today asked UN judges to dismiss his war crimes case halfway through the trial.

A man accused of commanding a police squad that rounded up Bosnian Muslims for slaughter in 1995 made a new life in Las Vegas as a modest grocery shop owner before being arrested and deported to his native country, US officials said.

The war crimes trial of ex-Bosnian Serb commander General Ratko Mladic has been delayed by a judge in The Hague due to "errors" by prosecutors in disclosing evidence to defence lawyers.

Prosecutors are outlining their evidence against ex-Bosnian Serb army chief General Ratko Mladic over the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.

Twenty years after Ratko Mladic’s forces began raining artillery fire on Sarajevo, the former Serb general looked down again on the Bosnian capital’s main square from a giant screen showing the start of his genocide trial live from The Hague.

Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic made a throat-slitting gesture to a woman who lost her son, husband, and brothers in the Srebenica massacre at the start of his trial yesterday for some of the worst atrocities in Europe since the Second World War.

Ratko Mladic was a shadow of the swaggering general who once “held Sarajevo in the palm of his hand” during Bosnia’s 1992-95 war as his long-awaited genocide trial opened – but he still managed to inflame Bosnia’s festering war wounds with the flick of his hand.

Ratko Mladic went on trial at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal today, 20 years after his troops began ethnically cleansing Bosnian towns and villages of non-Serbs.

Former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic has gone on trial at a UN tribunal on 11 charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.

Former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic has failed in his attempt to delay the start of his war crimes trial.

Former Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic goes on trial this week in a case that will establish if he was responsible for some of the worst atrocities in Europe since Second World War.

Former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic has been admitted to hospital in the Netherlands with suspected pneumonia.

THE UN’s Yugoslavia war crimes tribunal has sentenced former Serbia army chief Momcilo Perisic to 27 years in jail for murder, persecution and attacks on civilians in Bosnia and Croatia in the 1990s.

The former chief of the Yugoslav army has been jailed for 27 years for aiding Bosnian Serb forces responsible for the Srebrenica massacre and deadly four-year campaign of shelling and sniping in Sarajevo.

William Maclean on why the manhunt for Gaddafi cannot be prolonged

SERBIA has arrested the last major war crimes suspect from the 1990s conflicts in former Yugoslavia, closing what its president said was a “burdensome” page in the country’s history.

THE Netherlands was responsible for the deaths of three Bosnian Muslim men slain by Serbs during the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, appeals judges have ruled, ordering the Dutch government to compensate the men’s relatives.

Dutch UN peacekeepers have been ruled legally responsible for the deaths of three Bosnian Muslim men in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.

A DEFIANT Ratko Mladic plunged his Yugoslav war crimes tribunal arraignment into chaos, repeatedly shouting at judges, defying their orders and refusing to enter pleas to 11 charges before the presiding judge threw him out of the hearing.

A defiant Ratko Mladic plunged his Yugoslav war crimes tribunal into chaos today with the judge throwing him out of court for refusing to behave.

Ex-Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic has been removed from a UN courtroom at the Hague this morning.

Former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic has threatened to boycott a hearing at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal, where he is scheduled to enter pleas to charges including genocide.

FORMER Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic plans to boycott today’s hearing at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal, where he is scheduled to enter pleas to charges including genocide, his Serbian lawyer said.

The International Criminal Court’s prosecutor has urged Muammar Gaddafi’s own aides to turn him over for trial on murder charges – or risk prosecution themselves.

THE present trial of the former general Ratko Mladic has already shown how the authorities must have known where this man was kept while on “the run” in Serbia.

FORMER Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic faced the UN war crimes tribunal yesterday as a defiant general who never lost a battle, denying the charges against him as “obnoxious” and “monstrous”.

Former Bosnian Serb military chief General Ratko Mladic has told a United Nations war crimes court he is “a gravely ill man” and refused to enter pleas to “obnoxious charges” alleging he orchestrated the worst atrocities of a war that claimed 100,000 lives.

Ratko Mladic has described charges against him as "obnoxious".

Former Bosnian Serb military chief General Ratko Mladic told a United Nations war crimes court today that he is “a gravely ill man”.

Ratko Mladic will not enter a plea at the UN war crimes tribunal today, after charges, including one of genocide, were read out to him.

Former Bosnian Serb military chief Gen Ratko Mladic has entered a Yugoslav war crimes tribunal courtroom to hear the charges on 11 counts that accuse him with orchestrating the worst atrocities of a war that claimed 100,000 lives.

Victims of the 1992-95 Bosnian war have gathered outside a courtroom in The Hague for the start of UN criminal proceedings against Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb commander accused of orchestrating the worst atrocities of a war that claimed 100,000 lives.

Ratko Mladic is due to appear at the UN war crimes tribunal this morning after 16 years on the run.