Siege of Bihać (1992–95)

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)
Date	12 June 1992 – 4–5 August 1995
Location	Bihać, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Result	ARBiH and Croatian Army victory Siege lifted; Autonomous Province of Western Bosnia abolished;
Belligerents
Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina; Croatia (1995)	Republika Srpska; Republic of Serbian Krajina; AP of Western Bosnia (1993–1995)
Commanders and leaders
Mirsad Sedić; Hajro Osmanagić; Atif Dudaković; Tomislav Dretar; Irfan Ljubijankić †; Izet Nanić (Until 5 August 1995); Vlado Šantić (MIA); Zvonimir Červenko (1995)	Radovan Karadžić; Ratko Mladić; Milan Martić; Fikret Abdić; Hasib Hodžić
Units involved
Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina; Croatian Defence Council; Croatian Army (1995)	Army of Republika Srpska; Army of the Republic of Serbian Krajina
Strength
ARBiH; 10,000–20,000 soldiers; HV:; 10,000 soldiers	VRS:; 10,000 soldiers; RSK:; 3,000–5,000 soldiers; APZB:; 4,000–5,000 soldiers
Casualties and losses
	Total:; 4,856 killed or missing combatants and civilians

The siege of Bihać was a three-year-long siege of the northwestern Bosnian town of Bihać by the Army of the Republika Srpska, the Army of the Republic of Serbian Krajina and Bosnian Muslim dissenters led by Fikret Abdić during the 1992–95 Bosnian War. The siege lasted for three years, from June 1992 until 4–5 August 1995, when Operation Storm ended it after the Croatian Army (HV) overran the rebel Serbs in Croatia and northwest of the besieged town.

The Research and Documentation Center in Sarajevo established that the communities that were under siege – Bihać, Bosanska Krupa, Cazin and Velika Kladuša – had 4,856 killed or missing persons from 1991 to 1995.

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