Croats Josip Jugec and Ivan Psenica both lost their sons in Vukovar. These war veterans, in their early 60s, fought in the east Croatian town from the first day of the conflict to its fall, coming ...

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The last commander of the defence of Vukovar, Branko Borkovic, told reporters on Saturday at the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Vukovar event, marking the fall of the city on November 18, 1991, ...

Victims of the 1991 Vukovar massacre were commemorated with ceremonies on the 32nd anniversary of the massacre on Saturday. Vukovar, close to Serbia on the River Danube, was the scene of intense ...

A dank, chilly November day by the Danube, the final day of the Serbs' three-month siege of Vukovar in 1991. The Montenegrin martinet would not allow Cyrus Vance, the late US diplomat, or the man from ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. For three months last fall, Serb-led forces rained artillery on Vukovar ...

After Vukovar fell to the Yugoslav People’s Army in November 1991, a team from Serbian news magazine Vreme went to report on the devastation of the besieged Croatian town. On the 30th anniversary, ...

In August 1991, as Yugoslavia disintegrated, national army troops and paramilitary forces laid siege to the city of Vukovar in northeastern Croatia. As the city fell, the forces abducted hundreds of ...

Vukovar, Croatia – “It’s cows,” says Marko Mlakic to his friend Grga Krajina, describing the smell in the fields of Vukovar, a town on the border between Croatia and Serbia. Twenty-four years ago, it ...

The bilingual signs were put up in line with EU rules on minority rights Dozens of protesters in the Croatian town of Vukovar have torn down signs written in the Serbian Cyrillic script. The signs had ...

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 ...