VUKOVAR, Croatia – Can Vukovar also be Bykobap? Whether the name of the war-scarred town on the Danube is written in the Latin or Cyrillic alphabet is a sensitive question.

Vukovar was a modestly prosperous, sleepy, provincial town in eastern Croatia, near the border with Serbia, noted for its picturesque baroque architecture. That was before the war for Croatia's ...

Vukovar was devastated by Serbian rebels during Croatia's war for independence in the 1990s. The city has been rebuilt but ethnic tensions remain.

Martin Bell returns to Vukovar in Croatia, to mark the 20th anniversary of the siege which marked the start of the Yugoslav wars and gave the world the phrase 'ethnic cleansing'. Show more ...

According to the Vukovar Hospital, at least 1,624 people were killed, about 7,000 were taken to concentration camps, and around 22,000 non-Serbs, mostly Croats, were deported from the city.

According to the Vukovar Hospital, at least 1,624 people were killed, about 7,000 were taken to concentration camps, and around 22,000 non-Serbs, mostly Croats, were deported from the city.

Dozens of protesters in the Croatian town of Vukovar have torn down signs written in the Serbian Cyrillic script. The signs had been put up because of a law that makes bilingual signs mandatory in ...

Croatia reacted angrily at verdicts pronounced by the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague in the cases of three former Yugoslav Army officers. Two of the defendants were sentenced for war crimes in ...

People gather at a cemetery in Vukovar in August 2001 to commemorate Croatian victims of the 1991-95 war The trial has begun at the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague for the former Yugoslavia of ...

More than 20,000 Croats rallied on Saturday in Vukovar, a town destroyed in the 1991-95 war with rebel Serbs, to protest against the government's plan to introduce signs in the Serbian Cyrillic ...