U.N. prosecutors at The Hague sentenced dozens of Balkan war criminals to long prison terms, many of them having been apprehended by U.S. and NATO special forces.

Some 30 years after the Balkan wars, Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina still grapple with the legacy of wartime leaders. Bosnian law forbids the "glorification" of war criminals, but is rarely ...

A UN war crimes trial in The Hague in 1998, before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and its successor began leaving the prosecution of crimes during the 1992-95 ...

Chasing war criminals is a decades-long process. German authorities were still prosecuting World War II atrocities as late as last year. In the Balkans, war crimes trials are still ongoing three ...

United Nations appeals judges have significantly expanded the convictions of two allies of late Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, holding them responsible for involvement in crimes across ...

The former supervisor of an infamous Bosnian prison camp during the Balkan Wars of the 1990s was arrested in the Boston area this week on charges of fraudulently obtaining U.S. citizenship by making ...

In the course of working on the Balkans 2010 report, it became clear that many task force members considered the organized criminal groups to be the single greatest threat to regional stability ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — U.N. appeals judges on Wednesday significantly expanded the convictions of two allies of late Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, holding them responsible for ...

The appeals ruling brings to an end the longest-running war crimes prosecution dating back to the Balkan wars of the early 1990s. Milosevic was put on trial for his alleged involvement in ...

Brammertz said that war crimes trials would continue in the Balkans as many victims and survivors still await justice. “For us, it was the last case,” Brammertz told reporters.