BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Herzegovina -- For nearly 400 years, a 16th-century Ottoman mosque stood in Banja Luka before it was leveled by explosives in the middle of the night on May 7, 1993. For years ...

Yet Banja Luka is the capital of one of Europe’s strangest creations of the late 20th century: a mini state within a state. Today, its Serb citizens will quietly mark what some refer to as ...

I did not return to Bosnia until the winter before the pandemic, when I was doing research for a book about Eastern Europe and decided to ride the train from Banja Luka (the capital of the ...