Meliha Kesmer is a correspondent for RFE/RL's Balkan Service.
RFE/RL has learnt that hundreds of foreign fighters, including from Central Asia, are among the ranks of Syrian militant groups which toppled the government of Bashar al-Assad.
Islamic State militants are trying to exploit the security vacuum following the fall of the Assad government in Syria. Experts and officials are warning that the group could revert to its signature violent tactics to reestablish a foothold.
Police in Sarajevo have begun wearing body cameras and turned to Hytera, a leading Chinese manufacturer blacklisted by the United States for data issues and industrial espionage. RFE/RL reports that local officials ignored warnings from the United States, the EU, and Canada in selecting the company.
CIA Director William Burns was in Sarajevo on August 20 to discuss the “worrying secessionist rhetoric and actions” of the pro-Russian president and government of Bosnia-Herzegovina’s Serb entity, a U.S. government official told RFE/RL.
When 25-year-old Milos Zujovic carried out a brazen attack on the Israeli Embassy in Belgrade. The young man had converted to Islam and pledged his allegiance to the Islamic State. Security experts say they've seen growing numbers of individuals who adopt extremist ideologies from online contacts.
A Sarajevo exhibition is providing women – some of whom underwent forced marriages, prostitution, and psychological torture - a voice as to why they made the perilous journey to cross the Mediterranean in search of a better life.
Italian prosecutors have identified six suspects who allegedly aided the escape of the son of a Russian politician wanted by the United States on charges of smuggling Western technologies in violation of sanctions and money laundering.
After a man live streamed the killing of his ex-wife on Instagram in Bosnia-Herzegovina, experts warn that social media algorithms are "notoriously ineffective" at sniffing out danger and say the issue highlights Meta's and other leading operators' failures at moderation, particularly of videos and non-English content.
A 43-year-old from Republika Srpska with a kidnapping conviction and other scrapes with Bosnian police seemingly reinvented himself and went to war for Russia before popping up as “Sasha the Musician” on social media touting Russian military efforts.
Mustafa Ceric, the former grand mufti of Bosnia-Herzegovina, has sparked controversy at home for being part of an organized tour of Xinjiang that activists say is part of a Chinese effort to silence criticism over its abuses against Uyghurs and other Muslim groups in the western province.
Survivors of a Balkan conflict notorious for ethnic cleansing, rape, and other atrocities offer Ukrainian women hope for the future and their best advice for right now amid horrific reports coming from the current war.
Dozens of newcomers believed to be members of the radical Lev Tahor group, which is hounded by controversy and allegations of child abuse, arrived recently in East Sarajevo. The group isn't accused of any local wrongdoing, but officials now say its members need to leave.
As the leaders of Republika Srpska pursue division, other Bosnians take to the walls to remind the country that they are "for peace."
Serbian actress Jasna Djuricic plays the lead in the Bosnian film Quo Vadis, Aida?, the story about the Srebrenica genocide that's been nominated for an Academy Award.
A chronology of the diplomatic, cultural, and legal tug-of-war over a 300-year-old Orthodox artifact at the center of an international scandal.
"When they admit that genocide was committed in Srebrenica...and apologize to the victims, ask for forgiveness, then we can build a monument to peace."
A hotel owner in Bosnia-Herzegovina removed three figures that were "urinating" into a Bosnia-shaped pool in an art installation inspired by a postmodern Czech bad boy.
