Croatia declared independence from Yugoslavia in 1991, sparking a four-year war. While for much of the 1990s, democratically elected President Franjo Tudjman ruled the country in an authoritarian ...

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Croatian lawmakers on Friday passed a bill that compensates the victims of rape during the country’s war for independence more than twenty years ago — a move hailed as a late ...

Croatian officials marked the 30th anniversary of Operation Plitvice against rebel Serb forces and the death of policeman Josip Jovic, who is regarded as the first victim of the 1991-95 Croatian War.

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Croatian police say they have arrested two former Serb paramilitary fighters suspected of committing war crimes during the 1991-95 war. Police said on Friday the suspects are ...

In William Pfaff`s column on Sept. 8, he states that, ”The Yugoslav crisis is the product, first, of Serbia`s attempt to create a `Greater Serbia` by annexing those portions of modern Croatia ...

The Yugoslav army intensified attacks along three fronts in war-ravaged Croatia Sunday as European Community officials prepared to consider imposing economic sanctions against the country. The ...

On August 17, 1870, Esther Morris became the first woman magistrate in the US when she was appointed Justice of the Peace for South Pass City, Wyoming. Learn more about Esther Morris. Israel begins ...

Thirteen Serbs were convicted of war crimes Thursday and sentenced to prison for the execution-style killings of some 200 Croats — one of the worst massacres of POWs during the bloody Balkan conflicts ...

The presidents of Serbia and Croatia on Thursday apologized at the sites of mass killings during their 1991 war in a symbolic step toward reconciliation. President Boris Tadic of Serbia, left, became ...

ZAGREB (Reuters) - Croatian demining experts have been sent to a border area where migrants began crossing on foot from Serbia on Wednesday, called in by police concerned at the threat posed by ...