After the match was level at 1-1 after extra time, Bosnia and Herzegovina beat Italy 4-1 on penalties to reach finals.
Thirty years on, Bosnia still lives with the legacy of ethnic cleansing, mass displacement and the Srebrenica genocide.
It’s been 30 years since the Bosnia war ended, but the conflict still shapes the country today.
Republika Srpska’s ruling party has declared victory and the opposition has claimed fraud in presidential elections.
Sinisa Karan wins 50.89 percent while his main rival Branko Blanusa gets 47.81 percent, preliminary results show.
Vote occurs amid rising secessionist rhetoric in Serb-majority entity and Milorad Dodik’s defiance of the Dayton treaty.
The vote occurs at a time of rising secessionist rhetoric in the Serb-majority entity, and with Europe in wider tumult.
Republika Srpska, an autonomous division of Bosnia and Herzegovina, is holding a snap presidential election.
Their refusal to speak out undermines scholarly integrity and the field of genocide studies.
The US decision to lift sanctions on the Bosnian Serb leader effectively enabled Russia to annex half of Bosnia.
Prosecutors in Italy are examining claims that Italians travelled to Bosnia during the war to shoot at civilians.
![A man walks past an election billboard showing Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik, and his SNSD party's candidate Sinisa Karan, for Republika Srpska's presidential election, in the town of Banja Luka, Friday, November 21, 2025 [Radivoje Pavicic/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/AP25325551187904-1763779374.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
