Sarajevo

Gino Yevdjevich – who goes by “Gino” — is the founder and lead singer of the Seattle-based punk band Kultur Shock.

‘Sing every single song like it’s your last’: How conflict in Sarajevo changed this musician’s life

Movement

Thirty years ago, war raged in the city of Sarajevo in the former Yugoslavia, where Gino Yevdjevich was once a pop artist. In our latest segment of “Movement,” our series on music and migration, we hear how this conflict changed Gino’s life and led him to create the Seattle-based punk band Kultur Shock.

World champion ice dancers Christopher Dean and Jayne Torvill of Great Britain are shown during their first workout, a few hours after they arrived for the Winter Olympic Games in Sarajevo

Maurice Ravel’s ‘Boléro’ makes a comeback at Beijing Winter Olympics

Music
Richard Holbrooke sits in a small military vehicle holding a bottle.

In ‘Our Man,’ diplomat Richard Holbrooke is both an egotist and idealist

Politics
Migrants rest in a dorm destroyed during the Bosnian 1992-1995 war, in Bihac, Bosnia-Herzegovina, May 11, 2018.

Bosnia emerges as new underground migrant route while Europe’s borders tighten

Conflict & Justice
DNA testing in The Hague

Cutting-edge DNA labs help identify people missing in conflicts and disasters

Justice

Why World War I still matters, 100 years after it began

One hundred years after the First World War, boundaries established after the armistice at the “eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh hour” still shape many of today’s conflicts. From ISIS’s invasion of Mosul to Boko Haram’s kidnapping of schoolgirls, GlobalPost co-founder Charles Sennott journeys from Iraq to Nigeria to the Balkans to Northern Ireland and the Holy Land to see how WWI’s history lives on, the lessons learned — and far too often not learned.

Bosnia's national soccer team players (L-R) Miralem Pjanic, Jasmin Mujdza, Toni Sunjic, Emir Spahic, Tino-Sven Susic, Zvjezdan Misimovic, Vedad Ibisevic, Sejad Salihovic, Asmir Begovic, Haris Medunjanin and Edin Dzeko

Even if they lose, Bosnia-Herzegovina’s national team has already won

Sports

This Sunday, Bosnia-Herzegovina will play its first World Cup match ever. More than two decades after the country was torn apart by ethnic violence, this national team symbolizes a new page in the country’s history.This Sunday, Bosnia-Herzegovina will play its first World Cup match ever. More than two decades after the country was torn apart by ethnic violence, this national team symbolizes a new page in the country’s history.

A journalist who covered the Bosnian war testifies in war crimes trial of a key Serb commander

Conflict & Justice

The brutal war in Bosnia ended nearly 20 years ago. But at the International Criminal Tribunal in the Hague the conflict is still being dissected in detail.
At the war crimes trial of former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic, the prosecution has wrapped. Now for the defence.

Merima Ključo

This Bosnian War survivor has a musical interpretation of the Sarajevo Haggadah

Lifestyle & Belief

The Sarajevo Haggadah was written in the 14th century as an illustrated guide to the Passover seder. Bosnian-born composer and concert accordionist Merima Kljuco was inspired to turn the book, and its story, into a piece of music.

Merima Ključo

This Bosnian War survivor has a musical interpretation of the Sarajevo Haggadah

Lifestyle & Belief

The Sarajevo Haggadah was written in the 14th century as an illustrated guide to the Passover seder. Bosnian-born composer and concert accordionist Merima Kljuco was inspired to turn the book, and its story, into a piece of music.