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Although, former U.S. Balkans peace negotiator Richard Holbrooke said in an interview that he believed the Bosnian Muslims wouldn't have survived without foreign help, as at the time a U.N. arms embargo uniquely diminished the Bosnian government's fighting capabilities - he called the arrival of the mujahideen "a pact with the devil" from which ...
Foreign mujahideen arrived in central Bosnia in the second half of 1992 with the aim of helping their Bosnian Muslim co-religionists to defend themselves from the Serb and Croat forces. Some originally went as humanitarian workers, [ 15 ] while some of them were considered criminals in their home countries for illegally travelling to Bosnia and ...
The 7th Muslim Brigade (Bosnian: 7. muslimanska brigada / 7. muslimanska viteška oslobidilačka brigada) was an elite all-volunteer brigade of the 3rd Corps of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It served as the ARBiH's primary assault brigade in Central Bosnia, and was headquartered in Zenica.
The Intra-Bosnian Muslim War (Serbo-Croatian: Unutarmuslimanski rat) was a civil war fought between the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina loyal to central government of Alija Izetbegović in Sarajevo and the Autonomous Province of Western Bosnia loyal to Fikret Abdić in Velika Kladuša from 1993 to 1995. The war ended in victory ...
Bosnian genocide: 1992-1995 Bosnia and Herzegovina Army of Republika Srpska (VRS), Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), Scorpions paramilitary group: c. 34,000 [24] Sanski Most ethnic cleansing 1992-1995 Sanski Most: VRS 842 [25] Doboj ethnic cleansing (1992) April–October 1992 Doboj: VRS 322 Bijeljina massacre: 1-2 April 1992 Bijeljina: VRS, JNA 78
Siege of Bihać; Part of the Bosnian War, Croatian War of Independence and the Inter-Bosnian Muslim War: Map of the Bihać enclave (under the control of the Bosnian-Herzegovinian government), surrounded by the Republic of Serbian Krajina (in the northwest), the Autonomous Province of Western Bosnia (to the north) and the Republika Srpska (to the southeast)
Patriotic League (Bosnian: Patriotska liga), was established by the Party of Democratic Action (SDA) in June 1991 in preparations for the coming Bosnian War. Together with Territorial Defence Force of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, it was transformed into the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
By October 27, they had occupied around 150 square kilometers of Serbian territory. However, the Army of Republika Srpska chief of staff, Manojlo Milovanović, demanded that the United Nations condemn the Muslim offensive and return to their initial positions. UNPROFOR responded with a threat of NATO bombing, which was seen as an unusual response.