AS AN example of the smallness and powerlessness of man in the scheme of things, Alija Izetbegovic liked to cite a moment in 1944, during the allied invasion of Europe. For a minute or so, all radio ...

The first President of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Alija Izetbegovic's ideas were moral compass in my life, said his grandchild. Nadja Berberovic Dizdarevic, the grandson of the late Alija Izetbegovic, ...

Alija Izetbegovic, the former Bosnian president whose dream of a Muslim- led independent Bosnia-Herzegovina was transformed by Balkan ethnic rivalries into a protracted war, died on Sunday in Sarajevo ...

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.

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 ...

Tens of thousands of Bosnian Muslims gathered in heavy rain to bid farewell to Alija Izetbegovic, the father of the Balkan country's independence who died of heart failure at the weekend. Known ...

Alija Ali Izetbegovic, the controversial Bosnian Islamist leader of a largely secularized people, died on Sunday, October 19 th, 2003, in Sarajevo, at the age of seventy-eight. Izetbegovic helped lead ...

The Croatian MP and son of the late President Franjo Tudjman has accused Bosnia's former President, Alija Izetbegovic, of helping to lay the foundations for Islamic terrorism. Isis militia. In an ...

On March 1, Ejup Ganic, a former member of Bosnia's presidency, was detained at Heathrow Airport in connection with an attack on Yugoslav forces in Sarajevo early in the 1992-95 Bosnian War. Ganic was ...

Alija Izetbegovic, the former President of Bosnia Herzegovina who died yesterday aged 78, was poised at the beginning of 1992 to lead his people out of 40 years of communism to an era of freedom and ...