In addition to the mainly Orthodox countries such as Bulgaria , Byzantium and Serbia , there were a number of Catholic possessions to the west and south held Defending by Venice , Genoa and the Kingdom of Hungary as well as Kingdom of Bosnia whose Bosnian Church ( closely related to the Bogomils ) was considered heretic by both Orthodox and Catholics .

, local courts had not prosecuted anyone for the killings Killing , and no members of the SDG had been prosecuted for any crimes the unit carried out Action in Bijeljina or elsewhere in Croatia or Bosnia and Herzegovina .

Operation Mistral 2 , officially codenamed Military_operation Operation Maestral 2 , was a Croatian Army ( HV ) and Croatian Defence Council ( HVO ) offensive in western Bosnia and Herzegovina on 8–15 September 1995 as part of the Bosnian War .

Days after commencement of the offensive , the VRS positions to the right and to the left Departing of the HV and the HVO advance were also attacked Attack by the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( `` Armija Republike Bosne i Hercegovine '' – ARBiH ) in Operation Sana .

The Siege of Sarajevo was the siege Besieging of the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina , and the longest of a capital city in the history of modern warfare .

When Bosnia and Herzegovina declared Expressing_publicly independence from Yugoslavia after the 1992 Bosnian independence referendum , the Bosnian Serbs—whose strategic goal was to create Creating a new Bosnian Serb state of Republika Srpska ( RS ) that would include Cause_to_be_included Bosniak-majority areas—encircled Sarajevo with a siege force of 13,000 stationed in the surrounding hills .

Most Serbs sought Statement a new Serb state within a Yugoslav federation Collaboration , including areas of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina with ethnic Serb majorities or significant minorities , and attempted to conquer Conquering as much of Croatia as possible .

Operation Winter '94 ( , Операција Зима '94 ) was a joint military offensive Attack of the Croatian Army ( HV ) and the Croatian Defence Council ( HVO ) fought Hostile_encounter in southwestern Bosnia and Herzegovina between 29 November and 24 December 1994 .

The operation formed Creating part of the Croatian War of Independence and the Bosnian War fought Hostile_encounter between Bosnia and Herzegovina , Croatia and two unrecognized para-states proclaimed by Croatian Serbs and Bosnian Serbs .

The main intention Aiming was to show Publishing commitment Commitment for process of Future enlargement of the European Union , little progress of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Macedonia in that process and relations of Serbia with Russia in the light of International sanctions during the 2014 pro-Russian unrest Hostile_encounter in Ukraine .

It was a decisive victory Getting for the Croatian Army ( HV ) , which attacked Attack across a front against the Republic of Serbian Krajina ( RSK ) , and a strategic victory for the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( ARBiH ) .

The battle , launched Military_operation to restore Croatian control of of territory , representing 18.4 % of the territory it claimed Statement , and Bosnian control of Western Bosnia , was the largest European land battle since the Second World War .

According to a 1994 United Nations report Reporting , the Serb side did not aim Aiming to restore Recovering Yugoslavia , but to create Creating a `` Greater Serbia '' from parts of Croatia and Bosnia .

The refugees initially fled Escaping to Bosnia and Herzegovina , but the majority were soon settled in the JNA-held Baranja region of eastern Croatia .

Operation Alfa ( ; ) was an offensive Military_operation carried out Military_operation in early October 1942 by Italian , Croatian and Chetnik forces against the communist-led Partisans in the Prozor region ( today in Bosnia and Herzegovina ) , then a part of the Croatian puppet state , the Independent State of Croatia ( NDH ) .

German Army Group E was withdrawing Escaping through it from Greece towards Bosnia , since the escape Escaping route through Niš and Belgrade had been closed Process_end by the Yugoslav Partisan , Bulgarian and Soviet forces ( during the Belgrade Offensive ) .

The Germans soon gathered Come_together a large force and quelled Preventing_or_letting the uprising using mass terror , but the remaining Partisan forces crossed into Bosnia , where they formed the 1st Proletarian Brigade .

Operation Military_operation Southeast Croatia ( ) was a large-scale German-led counter-insurgency operation Military_operation conducted Action in the southeastern parts of the Independent State of Croatia ( , NDH ) , ( modern-day Bosnia and Herzegovina ) during World War II .

It was the first of two German-led operations Military_operation targeting Aiming mainly Yugoslav Partisans in eastern Bosnia between 15 January and 4 February 1942 .

This contributed Giving to the complete unravelling of Chetnik–Partisan cooperation in eastern Bosnia .

Operation Summer '95 ( , Операција Љето '95 ) was a joint military Military_operation offensive of the Croatian Army ( HV ) and the Croatian Defence Defending Council ( HVO ) that took place Process_start north-west of the Livanjsko Polje , and around Bosansko Grahovo and Glamoč in western Bosnia and Herzegovina .

Operation Summer '95 was launched Process_start in response Response to the resumption of attacks Attack by the VRS and the RSK military on the Bihać pocketone of six United Nations Safe Areas established Building in Bosnia and Herzegovina .

Operation Military_operation Trio ( ) was the first large-scale joint Collaboration German-Italian counter-insurgency operation of World War II conducted Action in the Independent State of Croatia ( NDH ) , which included Cause_to_be_included modern-day Bosnia and Herzegovina .

It was carried out Action in two phases within eastern Bosnia from 20 April to 13 May 1942 , with Ustaše militia and Croatian Home Guard forces Military_operation taking part Dispersal on the Axis side .

The aim Aiming of the operation was to target Aiming all insurgents between Sarajevo and the Drina river in eastern Bosnia .

After briefly reorganising around Zelengora mountain south-east of Foča , they moved Motion their operations to western Bosnia for the remainder of 1942 .

Operation Trio coincided with and contributed Giving to the polarisation of the almost exclusively Serb rebels in eastern Bosnia into two groups : the Serb-chauvinist Chetniks and the multi-ethnic and communist-led Partisans .

Violent coups occurred Presence against the communist leadership of all but one of the Partisan detachments in eastern Bosnia , and these detachments effectively defected Escaping to the Chetniks .

Most of the surviving communist fighters from these detachments rejoined Becoming_a_member the Partisan forces Military_operation , and many withdrew with Tito to western Bosnia during the Partisan Long March .

Within a few weeks of the end of Operation Trio only 600 Partisan fighters were left Departing in eastern Bosnia , comprising the Group of Shock Battalions and the Birač Partisan Detachment .

The Chetnik movement in eastern Bosnia , at best a confederacy of local warlords , was strengthened Cause_change_of_strength by mass defections Escaping from the Partisans .

By 1992 , Yugoslavia had split into five successor states , namely Bosnia and Herzegovina , Croatia , Macedonia , Slovenia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia , which was later renamed Serbia and Montenegro in 2003 and eventually split in 2006 into two states , Serbia and Montenegro .

Operation Tiger ( ) was a Croatian Army ( HV ) offensive Attack conducted Action in areas of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina near Dubrovnik between 1 and 13 July 1992 .

Operation Military_operation Sana ( ) was a military offensive undertaken by the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( `` Armija Republike Bosne i Hercegovine '' – ARBiH ) in western Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Bosnian War .

Operation Military_operation Sana ( ) was a military offensive undertaken by the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( `` Armija Republike Bosne i Hercegovine '' – ARBiH ) in western Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Bosnian War .

The army under Prince Lazar consisted Cause_to_be_included of his own troops , a contingent led by Serbian nobleman Vuk Branković , and a contingent sent from Bosnia by King Tvrtko I , commanded Control by Vlatko Vuković .

The 2014 unrest Violence in Bosnia and Herzegovina was a series of demonstrations Social_event and riots Violence that began Process_start in the northern town of Tuzla on 4 February 2014 , but quickly spread Dispersal to multiple cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina , including Sarajevo , Zenica , Mostar , Jajce , and Brčko , among others , for social reasons and with the aim of overthrowing Change_of_leadership the government .

The 2014 unrest Violence in Bosnia and Herzegovina was a series of demonstrations Social_event and riots Violence that began Process_start in the northern town of Tuzla on 4 February 2014 , but quickly spread Dispersal to multiple cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina , including Sarajevo , Zenica , Mostar , Jajce , and Brčko , among others , for social reasons and with the aim of overthrowing Change_of_leadership the government .

The rioting Violence largely took place Process_start in the entity of Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina , and the same level of unrest Violence or activism Social_event did not occur Presence in Republika Srpska .

It took place Process_start in western Bosnia and Herzegovina on 8–11 October 1995 .

Its goal Aiming was to help Assistance the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( ARBiH ) whose positions around the town of Ključ , captured Arrest by them during Operation Sana , were endangered Destroying by a counteroffensive by the Army of Republika Srpska ( VRS ) .

Finally , the offensive was also aimed Aiming at capturing the Bočac Hydroelectric Power Station , the last significant source of electricity under VRS control in western Bosnia and Herzegovina .

The Kozara Offensive , also known as Operation West-Bosnien by the Axis , was fought Hostile_encounter in 1942 on and around the mountain of Kozara in northwestern Bosnia .

In the spring of 1942 , Yugoslav Partisans in central and west Bosnia liberated Change_of_leadership Bosanski Petrovac , Drvar , Glamoč and Prijedor .

The offensive was a Croatian pre-emptive strike against the VRS , a Bosnian Serb military formed Coming_to_be in May 1992 from Yugoslav People 's Army ( JNA ) units that were stationed Placing in Bosnia and Herzegovina .

The goal of the operation Military_operation was the destruction Destroying of a salient around the central Bosnian town of Jajce , which was held by the Croatian Defence Council ( `` Hrvatsko vijeće obrane '' – HVO ) and the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( `` Armija Republike Bosne i Hercegovine '' – ARBiH ) .

Seven nations participated Participation , including Bosnia and Herzegovina , who joined Participation the world championships Competition for the first time since 2008 .

Georgia recorded Recording their first victory Earnings_and_losses , defeating Conquering Bosnia and Herzegovina 4–1 .

The United Nations and NATO later expanded Expansion the mission of the operation to include providing Supply close air support for UN troops in Bosnia and carrying out Action coercive air strikes against targets in Bosnia .

The United Nations and NATO later expanded Expansion the mission of the operation to include providing Supply close air support for UN troops in Bosnia and carrying out Action coercive air strikes against targets in Bosnia .