What is a good summary of the war in Bosnia?

This is a very long story. Yugoslavia was a federation of several countries along the hinterlands between Greece and the center of Europe. read more

The Serb militants, with material support from the central Yugoslav government, rolled over the majority of the Muslim areas of Bosnia, with only five major Muslim enclaves holding on—but a swath of the southern side of Bosnia was held by ethnic Croats. read more

Bosnian conflict, ethnically rooted war (1992–95) in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a former republic of Yugoslavia with a multiethnic population comprising Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims), Serbs, and Croats. read more

Though Bosnian government forces tried to defend the territory, sometimes with the help of the Croatian army, Bosnian Serb forces were in control of nearly three-quarters of the country by the end of 1993, and Karadzic’s party had set up their own Republika Srpska in the east. read more