The Mostar Bridge, destroyed on Nov. 9, 1993, by Croatian artillery during the Bosnian War, remains one of the world’s most ...

VIDEO SHOWS: DIVERS JUMPING OFF OLD MOSTAR BRIDGE / DIVERS SWIMMING IN RIVER / SPECTATORS WATCHING DIVERS / JUDGES GIVING SCORES FOR COMPETITORS 1. CROWD LOOKING AT BRIDGE WATCHING DIVER GETTING READY ...

For more than four centuries, the Old Bridge in Mostar reigned as the Bosnian city's defining landmark. A masterpiece of Ottoman architecture commissioned in 1566 by Suleiman the Magnificent, the ...

The southern town of Mostar in Bosnia and Herzegovina celebrated the 15th anniversary of the reconstruction of its famous Old Bridge, which was blown up by Bosnian Croat forces during the war. This ...

Some 40 local and international competitors have participated in the centuries-old tradition of taking a 27-meter dive from Mostar's Old Bridge into the cold Neretva River. The Ottoman-era Old Bridge, ...

MOSTAR, Bosnia (Reuters) – Lorens Listo’s name may not headline the world’s sports pages, but on the streets of his native Mostar he is hailed as a champion among champions in a sport that is central ...

A diver jumped from Mostar’s reconstructed Old Bridge into the Neretva River in a commemoration of the 29th anniversary of the destruction of the Ottoman-era landmark. This post is also available in ...

"Dear God, please spare me Serb heroism and Croatian culture," ("Sacuvaj me boze srpskog junastva i hrvatske kulture") was a famous quip of Miroslav Krleza (1893-1981), the greatest Yugoslav and ...

Mostar is not what I expected. Bosnia is not what I expected. After several weeks travelling through Slovenia and Croatia, I found the people of Bosnia to be the friendliest, and the food to be the ...