"Those people were terrorists – Gavrilo Princip and the rest of them," said Salih Mehmedovic, standing at the spot by the Latin Bridge in central Sarajevo where the young Bosnian Serb shot dead ...

A young Bosnian Serb had one plan to free his people from the monarchy of Austria-Hungary: kill Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the crown. The intricate assassination plan ended up setting off a ...

A century ago this Saturday on a street corner in Sarajevo, Gavrilo Princip fired the shot that started World War I when he killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand. What do we know about history’s greatest ...

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina – A century after Gavrilo Princip ignited World War I with a shot from his handgun, the baby-faced Serb teenager who assassinated the Austro-Hungarian crown prince in ...

n illustration in Le Paris Journal depicts the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinard and his wife in Sarajevo, 1914. Leonard de Selva/Corbis Archduke Ferdinand and his wife Sophie one hour before ...

Serbia has unveiled a monument to the man who sparked the chain of events leading to World War I. Gavrilo Princip, who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 has a divisive legacy in the ...

It's a question that's persisted for over a century: how could a slight 19-year-old fire two shots and end up starting a war that killed millions around the world? Tim Butcher, the well-traveled ...

Serbians, what are Serbians? Assassins! Wilhelm II (1914) Every child in Serbia (now Jugoslavia) knows that Ferdinand Gavrillo Princip is the name of the young man from the province of Bosnia who, on ...

As a 19-year-old student, Gavrilo Princip led the conspiracy to murder Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie, when they visited Sarajevo, the Bosnian ...