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Bruce Dickinson poses for cameras with his honorary citizen certificate at the city hall in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Saturday, April 6, 2019. Bosnia's capital Sarajevo has declared Iron Maiden lead singer Bruce Dickinson an honorary citizen in gratitude for the concert the heavy metal band held while the city was under siege during 1992-95 war. (AP Photo/Eldar Emric)

Iron Maiden singer made honorary citizen of Bosnia’s capital

By Eldar Emric - Associated Press

Exterior view of the Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal, ICTY, in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday, Nov. 20, 2017, where the court is scheduled to deliver its verdicts in the genocide trial of former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic on Wednesday Nov. 22, 2017. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Landmark Mladic verdict closely watched in the Balkans

By JOVANA GEC - Associated Press

In this image taken from video Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic listens to the verdict at the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague, The Netherlands Thursday March 24, 2016. Karadzic was convicted of genocide and nine other charges Thursday at a U.N. court, and sentenced to 40 years in prison. (ICTY, Pool via AP)

Radovan Karadzic, former Bosnian Serb leader, convicted of genocide, sentenced to 40 years

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

Pope Francis caresses a boy as he arrives at the John Paul II Diocesan Youth Center, in Sarajevo, Saturday, June 6, 2015. Pope Francis witnessed the horrors of Bosnia's fratricidal war of the 1990s and its slow process of healing Saturday during a one-day visit to Sarajevo, where he urged Muslims, Orthodox and Catholics to put the "barbarity" of the past behind them and work together for a peaceful future. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope tells Bosnians to be ‘tenacious’ workers for peace

By by Ann Schneible - Catholic News Agency

A Bosnian woman stands in front of a poster with the image of Pope Francis, ahead of his visit, in Sarajevo, Wednesday, June 3, 2015. (AP Photo/Amel Emric)

Pope Francis hopes to bridge religious divide in war-scarred Bosnia

By Aida Cerkez - Associated Press

Seven Bosnian girls ages 13 and 14 wound up pregnant after returning from a five-day school trip, sparking a nationwide discussion on sex education in the country's schools. (Wikimedia Commons/Michelle Tribe)

Seven girls, ages 13 and 14, get pregnant on school trip to Sarajevo

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Jan. 28, 2014 file image taken from video former Bosnian Serb military chief Gen. Ratko Mladic smiles during his appearance at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in the Hague, Netherlands. On Monday, May 19, 2014 Mladic has launched the defense case in his long-running U.N. trial by calling a former Serb army officer who claims he was never ordered to fire on civilians in the besieged Bosnian capital. The 72-year-old Mladic denies 11 charges of ordering Serb atrocities throughout the 1991-95 Bosnian war. He faces a life sentence if convicted. (AP Photo/ICTY, Via Associated Press Television, File) TV OUT

Mladic starts defense at UN genocide trial

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

A worker walks trough the Sarajevo National Library Friday, April 11, 2014. Workers are rushing to finish the reconstruction of the National Library - a landmark destroyed during the Bosnian war - in time for the ceremonies marking the centenary of the assassination in the city that ignited World War I. The 19th century pseudo-Moorish-style building was completely destroyed by Serb shelling in 1992, along with its almost 2 million books and manuscripts. Reconstruction has taken 18 years at the cost of over 16 million euro, over a half of it provided by the European Union. (AP Photo/Amel Emric)

Reconstruction of Sarajevo Library nearing end

By AIDA CERKEZ - Associated Press