8. December 2022.
A terrorism suspect, who was arrested with a cache of weapons and photographs of high-level Croatian officials, also shared covid disinformation and links to a forum known for far-right content, earlier investigated by BIRN.
Terrorism
20. September 2022.
A new OSCE report says financing of terrorism cases are ‘under-prosecuted’ in Kosovo and lack operational oversight.
7. June 2022.
The Bosnian prosecution requested a one-month custody remand for Hamza Cardaklija, who is accused of threatening to commit a terrorist act emulating school shootings in the United States.
15. March 2022.
Italian police on Monday said they had arrested four Albanian citizens in Bari suspected of raising cash for an extremist Imam, now in jail in Albania, and who were in possession of ISIS propaganda.
11. March 2022.
Report by BIRN and other groups says Kosovo is not doing enough to re-train convicted fighters returned from war zones, so they can adapt back to normal life and work in the country.
15. February 2022.
More than two dozen Serbian women remain trapped in refugee camps in Syria, waiting so far in vain to be repatriated by the Serbian state. Whispered messages via banned mobile phones provide a chilling glimpse of their day-to-day plight.
2. February 2022.
Cooperating with international agencies such as Europol is crucial if North Macedonia and the rest of the Western Balkans are to win the fight against terrorism and extremism.
27. January 2022.
Having focused before on the threat of Islamic extremism, experts say Bosnia must now address right-wing dangers. But it faces resistance.
17. January 2022.
The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina in a first-instance verdict acquitted Sena Hamzabegovic of financing terrorist activities by raising cash and taking it to help ISIL fighters in Syria and Iraq.
21. December 2021.
Kosovo is trying to reintegrate returnees from the Islamic State. But its strategy on religious extremism must evolve too, experts say.
Sva prava zadržana BIRN BiH.