The Balkans’ "third most-wanted" war crimes fugitive was arrested on the Bosnia-Serbia border today, Serbian officials said.

A UN war crimes tribunal envoy met with Serbian officials today to discuss efforts to capture one of the court’s most wanted suspects – former Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic.

Serbia’s government is drafting an “action plan” to locate and capture top war crimes suspect General Ratko Mladic, a senior government official said today.

Both police and the military are intensively searching for war crimes fugitive General Ratko Mladic, Serbia’s minister in charge of cooperation with the UN war crimes tribunal said today.

A European Union deadline for Serbia to surrender war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic has expired with no sign of the former army commander, threatening the nation’s efforts to join the bloc.

Slobodan Milosevic died of a heart attack in his jail cell, according to preliminary post mortem findings tonight.

Dutch pathologists conducted a post mortem examination and toxicological tests today to determine what killed Slobodan Milosevic amid claims that the ex-Yugoslav leader feared he was being poisoned.

Serbia has until the end of the month to capture fugitive war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic, or it could face European Union sanctions, the foreign minister said today.

Wartime Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic used fake names during his hospital treatment in Belgrade in the 1990s, the Serbian authorities said today, amid reports that the top war crimes fugitive may finally be arrested by the end of this month.

A top Serbia-Montenegro official expressed confidence today that searches for fugitive war crimes suspects will lead to their capture and extradition to the UN war crimes court.

UN war crimes prosecutors have demanded Belgrade hand over the medical file of Serb fugitive, Gen. Ratko Mladic.

Serbian police have arrested at least eight men they say are shown in a video killing a group of Bosnian Muslim prisoners from Srebrenica, a top Belgrade official said today.

A top Serb official said today that Serbian authorities had the political will to arrest former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic and hand him over to a UN tribunal.

Serbian authorities are hunting for war crimes suspect General Ratko Mladic, but a number of raids on his alleged hide-outs – including a monastery – have failed to locate the elusive ex-commander, a top official said in an interview published today.