As firefighters tried to contain two wildfires near an ammunition factory in southern Bosnia today, one of the blazes began setting off explosions in a minefield left over from the country’s war in the 1990s.

Fugitive war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic was spotted in southern Bosnia in July, but Nato and European Union troops failed to capture him, a government report said.

MACEDONIA'S president, a moderate credited with helping to unite his ethnically-divided country, was killed yesterday when his plane crashed in bad weather in mountainous southern Bosnia.

Macedonia’s president Boris Trajkovski was killed today when his plane crashed in a mountainous part of southern Bosnia en route to an international investment conference.

Hardline Croatian nationalist attacked NATO peacekeepers in the city of Mostar yesterday after they mounted a crackdown on organisations bent on breaking up the country's Muslim-Croat Federation.