Two decades after the massacre at Srebrenica, Gwynne Dyer reports on how Serbia and its people, with some exceptions, refuse to accept it was an act of genocide

Richard Fitzpatrick spoke to artist Anthony Haughey about his film on the infamous massacre

Thousands of people "will most likely be massacred" if Kobani falls to Islamic State fighters, a UN envoy said, as militants fought deeper into the besieged Syrian Kurdish town in full view of Turkish tanks that have done nothing to intervene.

Your correspondent (Letters, July 29) carries a sinister subtext.

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.

Experts have started excavation on a mass grave in Serbia believed to contain at least 250 bodies of ethnic Albanians who were killed during the 1998-99 Kosovo war.

If you could cash a reality check you’d be up to your eyeballs in folding stuff this weekend.

WE have all seen the vicious clashes between some of the Ukrainian people and their former president.

Your recent editorial (Jan 2) describes the European Union as the factor which, “more than anything”, makes a recurrence of a world war seem impossible.

Bob Dylan is being asked to apologise for remarks he made in an interview that have ran afoul of French anti-racism laws.

Legendary singer Bob Dylan has been charged in France with inciting hatred over a 2012 interview in which he compared Croatians to Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan.

The people of Kosovo went to the polls today to choose mayors and local councilors in an election that will test the country’s fragile relations with Serbia as both countries seek to move closer to the European Union.

A member of the EU mission in Kosovo has been killed in a shooting in the tense, Serb-dominated north.

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Though the Mayans never really predicted that the world would end tomorrow, some New Agers are convinced that humanity’s demise is imminent. Or at least that it’s a good excuse for a party.

fghA UN war crimes tribunal in the Netherlands has acquitted the former prime minister of Kosovo and two of his former Kosovo Liberation Army comrades for the second time on charges of murdering and torturing Serbs and their supporters in Kosovo’s war for independence.

Appeals judges at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal have overturned the convictions of two Croat generals for crimes against humanity and war crimes committed against Serb civilians in a 1995 military blitz.

Chris Hughton, the only black manager in the Barclays Premier League, has called for UEFA to be “brave” and order national associations found guilty of racist abuse from supporters to play behind closed doors or be banned.

All Serbia’s players and staff involved in Tuesday night’s hugely controversial UEFA under-21 play-off against England have been asked to make formal statements.

Serbia Under-21 international Nikola Ninkovic has conceded his post-match conduct in the clash with England was wrong but insists he was provoked by Danny Rose’s “inappropriate gestures” towards the home supporters.

The Football Association have raised the prospect of a future boycott of matches in Serbia as a bitter row blew up over the alleged racist treatment of England’s Under-21 side after their win in Belgrade.

Accused mass murderer Radovan Karadzic portrayed himself as a peace-loving tolerant man as he opened his defence today in his war crimes 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 Yugoslav war crimes tribunal has acquitted former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic of one of the two genocide charges he faces but upheld 10 other counts at the halfway stage of his long-running trial.

The Republic of Ireland will play Serbia in a friendly in Belgrade on August 15, it has been confirmed today.

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.

Kosovo’s prime minister says integration is the only option he will accept for his country’s aggrieved Serb population.

European Union leaders formally made Serbia a candidate for membership in the bloc tonight, in a remarkable turnaround for a country considered a pariah just over a decade ago.

A conflict she didn’t fully understand has inspired Angelina Jolie to get behind the camera for a love story set in Bosnia.Janine De Giovanni reports

Nato troops in Kosovo fired tear gas to disperse a crowd of Serbs resisting the dismantling of a concrete barricade put up to block Kosovo authorities from controlling the Serb-dominated area.

Works on the Cork Art Trail don’t only deal with Irish issues. There’s also an exhibition on the Bosnian war, says Carl Dixon

Serbia's main negotiator in talks with Kosovo said EU-mediated dialogue will resume next week after a deadlock over border tensions.

Nato-led peacekeepers have tried to remove roadblocks in northern Kosovo, but have been prevented by Serbs guarding the blockade.

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.

IRELAND’S U19’s slipped to a comprehensive defeat against Serbia in Belgrade last night in the first of this week’s friendly away games.

Kosovar special police units launched an operation overnight to take control of two disputed border crossings in Kosovo’s northern Serb-run border region, the Kosovar interior minister said.

THE wartime leader of Croatia’s rebel Serbs declined to enter a plea yesterday in his first court appearance to face charges of murdering hundreds of Croats and expelling tens of thousands, in the final case to reach the UN’s Yugoslav war crimes tribunal.

The wartime leader of Croatia’s rebel Serbs is due to appear before a judge today to hear charges of murdering hundreds of Croats and expelling tens of thousands, in the final case to reach the UN’s Yugoslav war crimes tribunal.

Goran Hadzic, the last remaining fugitive sought by the UN war crimes court, has been arrested by Serbian authorities.

A 97-year-old man was cleared today of war crimes charges stemming from a raid by Hungarian forces that killed 35 people in Serbia during the Second World War.

A 97-year-old man has been cleared of war crimes charges stemming from a raid by Hungarian forces in Serbia during the Second World War.