I covered Croatia's independence war in 1991 and now I have gone back to Vukovar. It is again a pretty town on the broad sweep of the Danube River. One day soon, this could be the EU's eastern edge.
The list contains the names of some 501,000 people registered as war veterans from the 1991-1995 'Croatian War of Independence'. But this figure is much higher than previously thought.
The Croatian War of Independence began in 1991 when Croatia declared its independence from Yugoslavia. In what is known as the Velvet Divorce, Slovakia peacefully broke away from the Czech ...
Croatia fought a war of independence during the breakup of Yugoslavia from 1991 to 1995, but now shootings in the Balkan country are rare. Monday's incident ranks among the worst in Croatia's ...
Founded in 2016, the Museum of the Croatian War of Independence features original documents, art and documentary photographs, weapons, explosives, war equipment parts, troops' flags, authentic ...
That was compared to 55,000 in the baby boom year of 1997, two years after the end of the Croatian War of Independence. Official data suggest the figure will be even lower this year, although in ...