Police said the arrested 19-year-old Kosovar woman was passionately committed to becoming an Islamist 'martyr' – and was actively involved in recruiting others to the cause.
Kosovo police on Sunday announced the arrest of five persons suspected of planning terrorist attacks, all of whom are reportedly well known to the authorities.
Salafi preacher Husein Bilal Bosnic was convicted of recruiting people to go and fight for Islamic State, but while he was in prison, the Islamist militant group was defeated in Syria and other preachers in Bosnia and Herzegovina have changed their tactics.
A new report warns that videos that praise war criminals like Ratko Mladic and deny the Srebrenica genocide and the Holocaust are being posted on the TikTok video-sharing platform.
The recent repatriation of families of ISIS fighters to Kosovo, Albania and North Macedonia poses a tough challenge to all three countries to rehabilitate them back into society.
Experts say that the radicalisation of minors is becoming an increasingly challenging problem for Bosnia and Herzegovina, as schools lack the expertise and resources to tackle it and the authorities’ counter-extremism strategies are delayed and insufficient.