By late this evening, the Major said, his men had been provoked into advancing defensively almost all the way to the important Serb-held city of Prijedor.

The Bosnian Serbs reportedly fear a joint Croatian-Bosnian assault on the Serb-held city of Banja Luka.

Unsurprisingly, viewers in the Serb-held cities in Bosnia are no longer able to receive Sarajevo TV, but can only see the Belgrade version of reality.

In 1995, for example, she said, some 200 Tigers were called as reinforcements to Banja Luka, a Serb-held city in northern Bosnia.

Peter W. Galbraith, the American Ambassador to Croatia, was sent to the Serb-held city of Knin to get the Serbs' tacit assent, State Department officials said.

As people went to the polls in the Serb-held city of Banja Luka in northern Bosnia, bulldozers cleared away the remains of two 16th-century mosques blown up the previous week.

Many of the refugees were heading toward the major Bosnian Serb-held city in the region, Banja Luka, which was ill-prepared for them.

The land the Government has to cede lies around the narrow corridor south of Brcko that connects Serbia with Banja Luka, the main Serb-held city in Bosnia.

What remains of the war in the former Yugoslavia is here, 20 miles south of the Serb-held city of Banja Luka.

Her home, burned by the Serbs, is only 15 miles away in the Serb-held city of Prijedor.