In the ongoing crisis in Iraq, one factor has remained unchanged: the loyalty of the Kurds to Washington. Whereas, for most Arabs, March 20, the first anniversary of the Anglo-American invasion of ...

In post-conflict reconstruction, first impressions are everything. After working in the Balkans for nearly a decade, I found that the locals, both obstructionists and supporters, use the opening ...

SARAJEVO -- -- SARAJEVO -- Twelve years ago, the guns in Bosnia fell silent after a war that killed at least 100,000 people and left more than 2 million homeless. Since then, the 1995 Dayton Peace ...

In a Friday sermon at Sarajevo’s Begova Mosque, the second most senior cleric in the country, Ismet Spahic, decried American actions in Iraq as “genocide.” Advertisement ...

Zlata Filipovic at RFE/RL's Washington studios (RFE/RL) WASHINGTON, January 26, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- Until 1992, Zlata Filipovic lived a carefree life in her native Sarajevo. She attended school ...

Bosnia's defense ministry says the country will donate small arms ammunition to Iraq to help the fight against Islamic State militants.

In Iraq on Sunday, the Islamic State of Iraq and ... (the French bits), and Iraq and Kuwait (the British bits). The road linking Sarajevo to Baghdad was a long but direct one.

Sarajevo resembles an organic memorial; ... have gone to fight for Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, one of the largest numbers of jihadist fighters from Europe relative to population.

THE ANNOUNCEMENT that Simon Haselock has been appointed "media commissioner" for Iraq is bad news for a free Iraqi media. I know Simon extremely well and like him, but there is good cause for ...

References to mass graves tend to strike a raw nerve in Bosnia, where the remains of 17,000 victims of the country's 1992-95 war have been unearthed. But this week at Sarajevo's 16th annual film ...

Though Rieff’s book consists of previously published essays, this is no tedious exercise in rehashing the past. Rieff has produced a vivid, if sometimes inadvertent, depiction of the agonies and ...

When Serbian nationalists conspired to assassinate the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, they lit the fuse that would, six weeks later, explode into World War I ...