Yugoslavia in World War II

BELGRADE - The exhibition of documents and photographs marking the seven decades since Operation Halyard, a World War II rescue mission in central Serbia during which more than 500 downed U.S. airmen were airlifted to safety, will open on Tuesday evening in Belgrade.

BELGRADE - Despite still being in a serious condition, the injured German citizen, D.H. (27), has been feeling better since Sunday morning, Dusan Jovanovic, Deputy Director of at the Emergency Center of the Clinical Center of Serbia, told Tanjug.

BELGRADE - A military exercise involving over 1,100 telecommunications and IT specialists from 28 NATO and Partnership for Peace countries, including 25 Serbian Armed Forces members, is under way in Grafenwoehr, Germany.

Kosovo office head "confident" Serbs will "prove innocence"

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA -- Serbian Government Office for Kosovo Director Marko Đurić said on Tuesday that Serbia stands firmly behind the five Serb defendants in Kosovo.

A proposal to name a new street in the Croatian city of Split after WWII anti-fascist Partisan fighters was withdrawn after opposition from veterans’ associations and right-wing politicians.

The mayor of Split’s backing for the naming of a new street after WWII anti-fascist Partisan fighters has been criticised by right-wing politicians in the Croatian coastal city.

Six former members of the paramilitary group Sima’s Chetniks, previously convicted of killing 28 civilians including children during the Bosnian war, were sent for retrial.

BOR – Serbian Defense Minister Bratislav Gasic has said that certain people can be expected to be relieved of their duties in the Serbian Armed Forces (VS) because of earlier abuse of office, but for now, the VS and the Defense Ministry work like a good and well-coordinated team.

PARIS, May 22 (Tanjug) - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic appealed to his French counterpart Francois Hollande on Thursday for France's backing for the holding of an international donor conference for Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia after the catastrophic floods.

The new city authorities in the Serbian capital have vowed to finally build a memorial at the site of the largest Nazi concentration camp in the region, where 7,000 Jews died.