16. July 2019.
Three years after a failed coup in Turkey, Bosnia is still under pressure from its close ally to hand over Turks it accuses of having ties to the alleged mastermind of the attempted putsch.
Terrorism
4. July 2019.
The State Court on Thursday jailed two men for planning terrorist attacks in East Sarajevo and Tuzla for a total of six-and-a-half years.
14. June 2019.
Bratislav Zivkovic has made no secret of his ties to Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, but prosecutors in Serbia dropped an investigation against him.
22. May 2019.
Among those gathered at the military cemetery on a hill above the Bosnian town of Visegrad, two Russians stood out. Rubbing shoulders with Bosnian Serb dignitaries, the pair was there to salute the hundreds of Russians who fought alongside Bosnian Serb forces during the 1992-95 Bosnian war. Viktor Zaplatin and Aleksandar Kravchenko were both veterans […]
17. April 2019.
State Court agrees reduced sentence for ex-Syria fighter Munib Ahmetspahic who returned disabled, admitted his guilt, cooperated with the prosecution – and insisted he repented of his actions.
20. February 2019.
The Sarajevo authorities have begun talks about checking the identities of captured Islamic State fighters, their wives and children before they can be sent back from Syria to Bosnia and Herzegovina.
24. January 2019.
Bosnia’s state court has charged Munib Ahmetspahic with joining the Islamist terrorist group Al-Nusra Front – and with participating in combat in Syria from 2013 to 2018. The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina has charged Munib Ahmetspahic – who was previously acquitted of having a role in the 2011 attack on the US embassy in […]
16. January 2019.
The Prosecutor’s Office for Organize Crime said it is waiting for more expertise before deciding whether to pursue the case of a man arrested on January 13 and supected of planning terrorist attacks in the name of ISIS.
28. December 2018.
Concerned by the spread of radical Islamism, Bosnia adopted a five-year strategy to counter the threat in 2015. But the funds have not been allocated to implement it, according to a BIRN BiH investigation.
18. December 2018.
Serbs carried out combat and counter-intelligence missions for several pro-Russia paramilitary units including the notorious Wagner group of mercenaries, BIRN has learned.
Sva prava zadržana BIRN BiH.