Dozens of Croat war veterans have protested in the Croatian town of Vukovar against signs that were written in both the Latin and the Cyrillic alphabets. The rally on September 3 comes a day after ...

Vukovar was a modestly prosperous, sleepy, provincial town in eastern Croatia, near the border with Serbia, noted for its picturesque baroque architecture. That was before the war for Croatia's ...

Belgrade - The trial of six Serbs accused of committing war crimes during vicious fighting for the Croatian town of Vukovar in 1991 has opened in a special court. It is the first major war crimes ...

Croatia says it will introduce signs in both Latin and Cyrillic scripts to respect Serb rights in the town of Vukovar, which was devastated by Croat-Serb fighting in 1991. Ethnic Serbs make up 34. ...

A UN war crimes appeals court has ruled that a former Yugoslav army officer jailed for crimes at Vukovar in 1991 should serve 17, not five years. It found Veselin Sljivancanin's original conviction ...

Vukovar town, following heavy shelling during the war of independence, 1991 Croatia's progress to the European mainstream has been long and difficult, for the country has had to turn the page on ...

Croat and Serb children attend separate classes at Vukovar’s schools – a system adopted at the end of the 1990s, when eastern Slavonia and the city of Vukovar were reintegrated from Serb-held ...

The Croatian city of Vukovar, on the banks of the Danube, has a painful past. Located on the border with Serbia, it was the scene of the first major battle in the 1990s Balkan wars. Four years ...

An exhumation is underway near the wartime flashpoint town of Vukovar in a village where what are believed to be 1990s war victims’ remains have been discovered. This post is also available in ...

The battle horrified the world and marked the start of the wars in former Yugoslavia. WItness hears from a Croat who defended Vukovar and from the former BBC war correspondent, Martin Bell.