The AP’s documenting of the mass graves in Iraq and Syria has led to barely an eyebrow being raised in the West, writes Andrew Nagorski.

This month, Europe marked two anniversaries that inspire sober reflection. July 11 was the 20th anniversary of the massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Bosnia.

Anger boiled over at a huge commemoration of the slaughter of 8,000 Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica 20 years ago as people yesterday pelted Serbian prime minister Aleksandar Vucic with stones, water bottles, and other objects.

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

Serbian prime minister Aleksandar Vucic has come under attack at ceremonies marking the 20th anniversary of the massacre in the Muslim enclave of Srebrenica.

Idris Elba writes and directs King For A Term on Sky Arts, Thursday, Idris Elba as Dad and Omar Agyei as Akuna.

Western nations and Russia are duelling over whether the UN Security Council should call the Srebrenica massacre during the Bosnian war a genocide in a resolution commemorating the 20th anniversary of Europe’s worst mass killing since the Second World War.

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.

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has insisted that United Nations prosecutors do not have "a shred of evidence" linking him to atrocities throughout the Bosnian war, and accused them of putting the entire Serb people on trial.

Prosecutors called former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic a liar in closing remarks at his genocide trial, saying his denials of responsibility for atrocities while he was in charge lack credibility.

Prosecutors called former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic a liar in closing remarks at his genocide trial, saying his denials of responsibility for atrocities committed on a massive scale while he was in charge lack any credibility.

The United Nations Security Council yesterday called for an immediate end to hostilities in Gaza as the Palestinian death toll passed 500.

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.

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.

In July 1995, 8,000 men and boys were massacred at Srebrenica. But countless women and girls suffered an equally appalling fate, says Janine di Giovanni.

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.

Every few decades, almost unfathomable savagery breaks out in some part of the world and reminds us all of the darkness that lurks, and will probably lurk forever, at the heart of humanity.

Two decades after Serb soldiers carried out house-to-house searches in a campaign of ethnic killings in Bosnia, forensic scientists are digging up what could turn out to be the largest mass grave from the 1992-95 war.

Dan Buckley traces the career thus far of Dublin-born Samantha Power who has just been appointed US ambassador to the UN by President Obama

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.

The courage shown by Malala Yousafzai in speaking out against Taliban human rights abuses was remarkable and it’s good to see she was evacuated to a hospital in Birmingham after she was brutally shot by the Taliban (Riaz Khan, Irish Examiner Oct 16).

The UN’s top human rights official has urged nations to save Syria’s embattled and dying children and to rally behind a 14-year-old girl shot in the head by the Taliban for promoting female education.

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic claimed he was a peace-lover as he addressed his trial for crimes against humanity today.

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.

The UN General Assembly has overwhelmingly denounced Syria’s crackdown and demanded the lockdown of its chemical and biological weapons.

Arab nations have said they will go to the UN General Assembly and seek approval of a new resolution on Syria.

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.

Former UN peacekeeper Col Colm Doyle says investigative journalist Ed Vulliamy’s anger is palpable in his remarkable book on the Bosnian conflict

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 Yugoslav war crimes tribunal has acquitted former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic of one of the two genocide charges he faces at the halfway stage of his long-running trial.

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.

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 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.

The editor of the Sunday Times paid tribute to “extraordinary” foreign correspondent Marie Colvin after she was killed in the besieged Syrian city of Homs today.

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 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.