Alija Izetbegovic prays after laying flowers at the soldiers cemetery in the capital on the Bosnian Independence Day - March 1 1997 Credit: Photo: EPA Alija Izetbegovic, the former President of Bosnia ...

Friday marks the 15th death anniversary of Alija Izetbegovic, independent Bosnia’s first president and a pivotal figure in the troubled history of the Balkans. Izetbegovic -- a politician, writer and ...

Bosnia and Herzegovina this week commemorates the 17th death anniversary of Alija Izetbegovic, independent Bosnia’s first president and one of the most important Muslim thinkers of the last century.

He was a devout Muslim who fought for the emancipation of his people within a multi-ethnic state, but never realised his dream of a reunified Bosnia. Izetbegovic long advocated a state in which ethnic ...

Speaking from his hospital room, Izetbegovic urged Bosnia’s three ethnic communities – Croats, Muslims and Serbs – who fought each other during a brutal civil war from 1992 to 1995, to reconcile their ...

Alija Izetbegovic, a devout Muslim whose religion and politics landed him in Yugoslav jails but who went on to lead the Bosnian people through a cataclysmic war and eventually into independence, died ...

Former Bosnian president Alija Izetbegovic was under war crimes investigation until his death, the Hague tribunal has revealed on the day of his funeral. The inquiry will now be halted, said tribunal ...

Based on the MOU, which was inked by Iran’s cultural attaché in Bosnia, Amirhossein Nuri, and Alija Izetbegovic Museum director Nada Berberovic-Dizdarevic during a meeting, both sides agreed to expand ...

The 61-year-old’s victory in Bosnia’s presidential election means that the main Bosniak party – and the Izetbegovic family – will maintain their influence on this body for another four years. Sefik ...

Alija Izetbegovic, lawyer and politician: born Bosanski Samac, Yugoslavia 8 August 1925; President, Presidency of Bosnia 1990-96, rotating President 1996-2000; married Halida Repovac (one son, two ...