One of many Turkish-style bridges in Mostar, this bridge resembles a smaller version of Stari Most, or the “Old Bridge,” the popular icon of the city. In 1993, the Old Bridge was bombed and destroyed during the Croat-Bosniak War, one of many parts of the larger war in Yugoslavia. The Yugoslav Wars have a bloody and complex history, spanning 10 years from 1991-2001 and involving a multitude of individual conflicts that would break the region into seven separate countries. One of Europe’s deadliest conflicts since World War II, the tensions between the various ethnic and religious groups were in full-force, causing hundreds of thousands of deaths and millions of displacements that not even international aid could resolve.