I held my breath, anxious with excitement. Alongside a few other wide-eyed spectators, I craned my neck to get a solid view of the dizzying plunge from the Stari Most bridge’s arch into the Neretva ...

Mostar is not what I expected. Bosnia is not what I expected. After several weeks travelling through Slovenia and Croatia, I found the people of Bosnia to be the friendliest, and the food to be the ...

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Buying a ticket to MostarMostar is a very popular tourist destination, less than 3 hours from Sarajevo by train or bus. It is ...

The Uborak and Sutina massacres near Mostar were the first and the largest war crimes in the Herzegovina region during the 1990s conflict. In the first in a three-part series, eyewitnesses recall the ...

The Orthodox cathedral of the Holy Trinity is still not ready for Christmas mass. But its story and the quest to bring it back is one of resilience. Mostar’s rich skyline, with mosques and Catholic ...

"Are you 1,000 percent certain I'm not about to die?" I asked, eyeing my taxi driver with suspicion. “One million percent,” Zoran confirmed, nodding. We had just driven 30 minutes from the Bosnian ...

On November 9, 1993, one of Bosnia-Herzegovina's cultural treasures became a casualty of war. The Old Bridge in Mostar, built in 1566 during the Ottoman Empire, was destroyed by shells fired by ...

A spat between the city's two ethno-nationalist parties - one Croat, one Bosniak - has created a political stalemate since 2008. The city's residents are paying the price. Mostar is the town everyone ...