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Bosnia’s Strategy for Prevention and Combatting Terrorism, which expires this year, has not received nearly enough resources to succeed – and clear terrorism prevention systems have yet to be set up in all local communities, analysis by BIRN shows.

Bosnia’s Strategy for Prevention and Combatting Terrorism, which expires this year, has not received nearly enough resources to succeed – and clear terrorism prevention systems have yet to be set up in all local communities, analysis by BIRN shows.

The forces of so-called Islamic State in Syria and Iraq are growing stronger again and their ideologies have persisted even after they were defeated militarily, said a United Nations Security Council report.

A defence witness at the trial of Gavrilo Stevic, who is accused of going to fight in Ukraine, said his first impression was that the defendant was deeply religious because he spoke about faith all the time.

An organisation run by a Russian army veteran who organised militias in eastern Ukraine and Crimea has given an award to a Serbian citizen who fought for the pro-Russian separatist cause. The Novorossiya Movement, an organisation run by notorious Russian army veteran Igor Strelkov, has given Serbian citizen Stevan Milosevic its ‘Protector of Novorossiya’ award […]

The Bosnian state court has ordered a two-month custody extension for six men accused of going to fight in the conflict in Syria, BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina was told.

Munib Ahmetspahic expressed regret for having joined the Islamic State in Syria. A Court declared him “deradicalised”, but experts say his case provides few real lessons for the fight against religious radicalism. Standing in a Bosnian courtroom in April last year, Munib Ahmetspahic repented. “How naïve we were,” he said. The war in Syria had […]

Defendant Suad Jukanovic admitted guilt for sending a false report through a social network to a diplomatic mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina in December 2016 saying that his cousin was associated with terrorist activities. He got a suspended sentence of eight months.

Two witnesses testifying in defense of Gavrilo Stevic, who has been charged with going to the Ukrainian battlefront, said today that they did not know whether the defendant stayed in the war region and described him as a poet and “religious mystic” who went to Russia to prevent conflicts.

The Bosnian state court upheld a prosecution request for a two-month extension of custody for Muharem Dunic, who is suspected of organising a terrorist group and fighting in Syria.

Terrorism

Prevention Remains Biggest Challenge to Bosnia’s Anti-Terrorism Strategy

Episode 110: Prevention Remains Biggest Challenge to Anti-Terrorism Strategy

UN Report: Threats from Islamic State and Al-Qaida Persist

Trial Witness ‘Thought Bosnian Ukraine Fighter was Monk’

Serb Awarded for Fighting for Pro-Russian Forces in Ukraine

Bosnia Extends Custody for Six Syrian War Suspects

In Bosnia’s First ‘Deradicalised’ Syria Fighter, Limited Lessons

Eight Months for Falsely Reporting Terrorist Activities

Witnesses Speak about Defendant Gavrilo Stevic’s Personality

Bosnia Extends Custody Remand for Suspected Syria Fighter

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