The brutal ethnic cleansing of a Muslim-majority town in northeast Bosnia in the spring of 1992 set a pattern that Bosnian Serb forces would repeat across the country to devastating effect.

In the Bosnian Serb capital of Banja Luka, some praise their longtime leader Milorad Dodik -- who is wanted by Bosnia's ...

On the way he is visiting towns, villages and war memorials, paying tribute to victims from all three communities that make up the country -- Bosnian Muslims, Orthodox Serbs and Catholic Croats. With ...

At the heart of the deepening crisis in Bosnia -- where Serb leader Milorad Dodik has been pushing the weak central government to the brink with threats of secession -- is a battle over who owns what.

When a court sentenced Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik to jail last month for defying the order of an international peace envoy, Moscow rushed to his defence, publicly calling the move "unacceptable ...

On the way he is visiting towns, villages and war memorials, paying tribute to victims from all three communities that make up the country -- Bosnian Muslims, Orthodox Serbs and Catholic Croats.

A burly basketball fan, Dodik was the first Serb politician to recognise the massacre of about 8,000 Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica during the 1992-1995 Bosnian war as genocide. Early in his career ...