Milorad Milojevic is a correspondent for RFE/RL's Balkan Service in Banja Luka.
A mosque in the Bosnian city of Banja Luka has reopened exactly 31 years after it was destroyed. The Arnaudija Mosque was built in 1595 but was torn down by Serbian forces during the 1992-95 Bosnian War. It's the last of 16 mosques that were destroyed in the city to be restored.
Thirty-one years after it was destroyed, the 16th-century Arnaudija Mosque in Banja Luka has reopened after undergoing extensive reconstruction.
As Bosnia's Republika Srpska entity grapples with Western diplomatic tensions and upcoming debt payments, President Milorad Dodik is increasingly eyeing China as a solution.
Survivors of a Balkan conflict notorious for ethnic cleansing, rape, and other atrocities offer Ukrainian women hope for the future and their best advice for right now amid horrific reports coming from the current war.
With hospitals in Bosnia-Herzegovina filling up as the pandemic's death toll rises, a hospital in Banja Luka has seen six suicides already this year. The deaths appear to highlight the devastating mental toll the coronavirus is having on its patients.
Already hobbled by division, Bosnia-Herzegovina has been loath to purchase its own vaccines or closely track who's getting vaccinated abroad.
Bosnian-trained rock and blues guitarist Igor Paspalj says he would love to inspire young Balkan musicians and delights in an award from magazines that inspired him growing up in war-torn former Yugoslavia.
In Bosnia's Serb entity, it's perfectly legal to film police officers on the job. For now.
Thousands have rallied peacefully in the ethnic Serb-dominated entity of Bosnia-Herzegovina to support a man whose push to learn the cause of his son's death has raised questions of police interference in the case.
Bosnia's Foreign Ministry says that parliament member Milica Markovic is under investigation over suspicions of corruption in connection with reports she authored on Armenia and Azerbaijan for the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).
