Many believe that incident sparked the bloody Croatian War of Independence, which claimed over 20,000 lives as Croats fought to break free from Serb-dominated Yugoslavia. According to sources ...

Croatia holds parliamentary elections Wednesday with two main candidates to lead the government who have dominated the Balkan ...

The massacre came in the early days of Croatia's war for independence, when Serb paramilitary units emerged to challenge the republic's decision to split from Yugoslavia. The victims, mostly ...

Croatia's ruling conservatives says that talks are already underway on the formation of a new governing majority following a ...

HDZ’s legacy is closely tied to Croatia’s war of independence during the Yugoslav disintegration of the 1990s. The party has faced criticism for its association with individuals accused of war crimes ...

CROATIA'S parliament has adopted a law granting compensation to rape victims in the 1991-95 war of independence from Yugoslavia. The victims, whose exact number remains unknown, will receive a one ...

Croatia's parliamentary election is viewed by some as the culmination of a rivalry between the country's pro-Western prime ...

Croatia’s Constitutional Court has banned President Zoran Milanović from becoming prime minister in case his center-left ...

President: Franjo Tudjman (1922 - ) Known as a right-winger, Tudjman led Croatia toward independence before the civil war. In 1941, Tudjman had joined communist partisans under Tito. After ...

He left that post weeks after Croatia formally declared independence on June 25, 1991, the same day as another Yugoslav republic, Slovenia. During questioning by war crime investigators ...

Russia and the war in Ukraine were a central theme in national parliamentary elections in Croatia. An alliance led by Croatia's anti-war president came in second and hobbled the country's pro-NATO ...