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Soldiers of the US Army Airborne Division wait for the Air Force B-1B Lancer bomber flight over Sarajevo, Bosnia, Tuesday, May 30, 2023. The two B-1B Lancer aircraft are assigned to the 7th Bomb Wing currently operating out of RAF Fairford, United Kingdom, conducted a low approach flyby over Sarajevo and other cities of Bosnia and Herzegovina to underscore the United States' strong partnership with the Armed Forces of BiH and enduring commitment to Bosnia and Herzegovina's sovereignty, territorial integrity, and multiethnic character. (AP Photo/Armin Durgut)

U.S. bombers fly over Bosnia in sign of support amid continued secessionist threats

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In this Saturday, Nov. 15, 2014, file photo, a supporter of Serbian ultranationalist leader Vojislav Seselj holds a picture of Russian President Vladimir Putin during a protest In Belgrade, Serbia. Vladimir Putin has accused the U.S. and the West of destabilizing the Balkans with NATO expansion policies as Serbia prepares a hero's welcome for the Russian president. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File)

Putin seeks to foment second Balkan war to distract the West, Bosnian diplomat warns

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik speaks during a news conference after claiming victory in a general election in the Bosnian town of Banja Luka, 240 kms northwest of Sarajevo, on Oct. 3, 2022. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has compared the policies of separatist leader of the Serbs in Bosnia to those of Russian President Vladimir Putin following his moves to curb dissent and LGBTQ rights. Blinken said on Twitter late on Wednesday that "Milorad Dodik's attacks on basic rights and freedoms in Republika Srpska show he is on President Putin's authoritarian path." (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File)

Sec. Blinken compares Bosnia Serb leader to Putin

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The highest decoration of the Republika Srpska, Order of the Republika Srpska assigned to Russian President Vladimir Putin is seen during a ceremony in the Bosnian town of Banja Luka, 240 kms northwest of Sarajevo, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023. The Bosnian Serb separatist leader has awarded Putin with the highest medal of honor for his "patriotic concern and love" for the Serb-controlled half of Bosnia. Dodik awarded Putin on the occasion of "the day of Republika Srpska" which has been proclaimed illegal by Bosnia's constitutional court. It marks the day when Bosnian Serbs proclaimed they are splitting from Bosnia in 1992 with the aim to separate the Serb-populated regions of the Balkan state and join them with Serbia. (AP Photo/Radivoje Pavicic)

Bosnian Serb separatists award Putin with medal of honor

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The afternoon sun illuminates hotels and houses in Vlasic, a ski resort affected by unusual warm weather in Bosnia, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023. The exceptional wintertime warmth is affecting ski resorts across Bosnia, prompting tourism authorities in parts of the country to consider declaring a state of natural emergency. (AP Photo/Almir Alic)

Bosnian ski resorts suffer as Europe sees record warm winter

By Sabina Niksic and Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

Croatian police officers secure a perimeter around the border crossing Maljevac, between Bosnia and Croatia, Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2022. Some 50 ethnic Chechens from Russia have reached Bosnia over the past week in search for a jumping-off point for the European Union. Bosnia's security ministry said Chechens' self-reported goal was to reach the EU because "they are fleeing military draft" in Russia and being sent to fight in its war in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Edvin Zulic)

Chechens in Bosnia seek to dodge Russian draft, reach EU

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Austrian author Peter Handke, left, receives the Order of the Republika Srpska from President of Republika Srpska Zeljka Cvijanovic during the ceremony in Banja Luka, Bosnia, Friday, May 7, 2021. The 2019 Nobel Literature Prize laureate Peter Handke was on Friday awarded top honors from Bosnian Serbs, building on the controversy stemming from his apologist views over Serb war crimes during the 1990s' wars in the Balkans. (AP Photo/Radivoje Pavicic)

Bosnia Serbs honor controversial Nobel Literature winner

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International official: Bosnian Serbs seek to split country

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

The Chief of Staff of the International Organization for Migration, Eugenio Ambrosi, talks to the media at a migrants camp in Lipa near Bihac, Western Bosnia, Wednesday, April 21, 2021. A senior U.N. migration official on Wednesday urged respect of international standards and an end to any abuse against migrants and refugees crossing borders while searching for a better future. Ambrosi called on governments to correct any wrongdoing affecting people fleeing war and poverty. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

Senior UN migration official visits migrant camps in Bosnia

By DARKO BANDIC - Associated Press

Croatia police probe claim migrant sexually abused at border

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Russian warning against NATO membership denounced by Bosnia

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A medic wearing full protective gear works with a patient on oxygen support in the COVID-19 ward at a the General Hospital in the capital Sarajevo, Bosnia, Thursday, March 18, 2021. As Bosnia faces soaring coronavirus infections and rapidly-filling hospitals, two doctors from Turkey have arrived in Sarajevo to help and offer their insight in the treatment of COVID-19. Bosnia is seeing a huge rise in infections and hospitalizations after a period of relaxed measures and the winter season that saw ski resorts staying open unlike in most of Europe. (AP Photo)

As infections rise, Sarajevo’s hospitals feel the pressure

By ELDAR EMRIC - Associated Press

A medical worker prepares a dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine to be administered to a patient in the capital Sarajevo, Bosnia, Wednesday, March 10, 2021. Vaccinations started from a batch of 10,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccines donated by neighboring Serbia. (AP Photo/Kemal Softic)

Western Balkan countries to tighten virus rules amid surge

By JOVANA GEC - Associated Press

Bosnia moves migrant families sleeping rough into camps

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In this photo provided by the Serbian Presidential Press Service, a worker holds a box of the Astra-Zeneca vaccines at Sarajevo Airport, Bosnia, Tuesday, March 2. 2021. Bosnia on Tuesday received 10,000 vaccines from neighboring Serbia amid a dispute with the international COVAX mechanism over a delay in planned shipments. Serbia's populist President Aleksandar Vucic flew to the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo to deliver the Astra-Zeneca vaccines to the authorities there. (Serbian Presidential Press Service via AP)

Bosnia receives jabs from Serbia amid COVAX dispute

By ELDAR EMRIC - Associated Press

Bosnian filmmaker Jasmila Zbanic speaks and gestures during an interview with the Associated Press in the capital Sarajevo, Bosnia, Saturday, Jan. 30, 2021. Zbanic's latest and the most ambitious film &quot;Quo Vadis, Aida?&quot;, based on true events from Bosnia's brutal 1992-95 inter-ethnic war has been many years in the making. (AP Photo/Kemal Softic)

Bosnian director: Movie’s human-rights focus resonates now

By SABINA NIKSIC - Associated Press

A migrant walks during a snowfall at the Lipa camp, outside Bihac, Bosnia, Monday, Jan. 11, 2021. Aid workers say migrants staying at a camp in northwestern Bosnia have complained or respiratory and skin diseases after spending days in make-shift tents and containers amid freezing weather and snow blizzards. Most of the hundreds of migrants at the Lipa facility near Bosnia's border with Croatia on Monday have been accommodated in heated military tents following days of uncertainty after a fire gutted most of the camp on Dec. 23. (AP Photo/Kemal Softic)

EU lashes Bosnia for failing to properly care for migrants

By LORNE COOK - Associated Press

Migrants warm themselves with a fire at a makeshift camp in a forest outside Velika Kladusa, Bosnia, Friday, Jan. 15, 2021. Temperatures have plummeted way below zero with a spate of extremely cold weather in Bosnia where hundreds of migrants and refugees _ including entire families with small children _ have been sleeping rough while trying to reach Western Europe. (AP Photo/Kemal Softic)

Stuck in Bosnia, migrants sleeping rough face up to winter

By KEMAL SOFTIC - Associated Press

A migrant walks during a snowfall at the Lipa camp, outside Bihac, Bosnia, Monday, Jan. 11, 2021. Aid workers say migrants staying at a camp in northwestern Bosnia have complained or respiratory and skin diseases after spending days in make-shift tents and containers amid freezing weather and snow blizzards. Most of the hundreds of migrants at the Lipa facility near Bosnia's border with Croatia on Monday have been accommodated in heated military tents following days of uncertainty after a fire gutted most of the camp on Dec. 23. (AP Photo/Kemal Softic)

Migrants in Bosnia camp health checked after days in cold

By KEMAL SOFTIC - Associated Press

Migrants cook inside a makeshift shelter at the Lipa camp, outside Bihac, Bosnia, Friday, Jan. 8, 2021. A fresh spate of snowy and very cold winter weather on has brought more misery for hundreds of migrants who have been stuck for days in a burnt out camp in northwest Bosnia waiting for heating and other facilities. (AP Photo/Kemal Softic)

Migrants in burnt Bosnia camp wait for new tents in blizzard

By KEMAL SOFTIC - Associated Press