The GroundTruth Project
June 27, 2014
One hundred years after the First World War, boundaries established after the armistice at the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh hour" still shape many of today's conflicts. From ISIS's invasion of Mosul to Boko Haram's kidnapping of schoolgirls, GlobalPost co-founder Charles Sennott journeys from Iraq to Nigeria to the Balkans to Northern Ireland and the Holy Land to see how WWI's history lives on, the lessons learned — and far too often not learned.
Conflict & Justice
Bosnia emerges as new underground migrant route while Europe’s borders tighten
GlobalPost
July 09, 2018
Bosnia, a small mountainous country with a population of around 3.5 million, recorded only 775 migrant arrivals for the whole of 2017. The country's minister of security said that 7,128 migrants had been registered since the beginning of 2018.
Lifestyle & Belief
The Spy Who Loved Me: A True Life Story
The Takeaway
March 09, 2011
What's life really like for an undercover couple? Robert Baer and Dayna Baer know. They are two dedicated CIA agents, who had more or less given up on their personal lives, but fell in love on a mission to Sarajevo.
Conflict & Justice
A journalist who covered the Bosnian war testifies in war crimes trial of a key Serb commander
PRI's The World
May 21, 2014
The brutal war in Bosnia ended nearly 20 years ago. But at the International Criminal Tribunal in the Hague the conflict is still being dissected in detail. At the war crimes trial of former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic, the prosecution has wrapped. Now for the defence.
The Siege of Sarajevo: 20 Years Later
The Takeaway
April 05, 2012
Sports
Even if they lose, Bosnia-Herzegovina's national team has already won
PRI's The World
June 13, 2014
This Sunday, Bosnia-Herzegovina will play its first World Cup match ever. More than two decades after the country was torn apart by ethnic violence, this national team symbolizes a new page in the country's history.
Jonathan Safran Foer and Nathan Englander on their 'New American Haggadah'
The Takeaway
April 05, 2012
Why World War I still matters, 100 years after it began
The GroundTruth Project
June 27, 2014
One hundred years after the First World War, boundaries established after the armistice at the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh hour" still shape many of today's conflicts. From ISIS's invasion of Mosul to Boko Haram's kidnapping of schoolgirls, GlobalPost co-founder Charles Sennott journeys from Iraq to Nigeria to the Balkans to Northern Ireland and the Holy Land to see how WWI's history lives on, the lessons learned — and far too often not learned.
Siege of Sarajevo: Dan Damon Looks Back
The Takeaway
April 16, 2012
Justice
Cutting-edge DNA labs help identify people missing in conflicts and disasters
Agence France-Presse
October 24, 2017
New technology, donated by the Dutch holding company Qiagen, enables scientists to better extract DNA from "even challenging bone samples. Ones that are decades old."
Growing Up in a War Zone
The Takeaway
October 15, 2012