Bosniaks make up 54% of the population, and Serbs 45%. In 2013, around 13,500 people lived in the surrounding area, while 2,400 lived in the town itself, a third of the prewar population.

Bosnian Serb police are holding 11 people on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts in the wake of a fatal gun attack on a police station last week, a prosecutor said on Thursday.

Some 8,000 Muslims, or Bosniaks, in the once predominantly Muslim region were slaughtered in five days by Bosnian Serb forces, the worst atrocity of the 1992-1995 war that killed 100,000 people in ...