12. November 2020.
After around 200 former fighters were repatriated from the war zones of Syria and Iraq, Kosovo is struggling with the security consequences – particularly during the lockdown.
Terrorism
10. November 2020.
Interior Ministry says 26 Montenegrin citizens travelled to fight in Syria and five to Ukraine since 2012, of whom ten have since returned from Syria and five from Ukraine.
9. November 2020.
Research into harmful content on the internet says net searches for far-right Serbian nationalist slogans spiked ahead of the 25th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide.
4. November 2020.
After the revelation that one of the Vienna terrorist attackers was a citizen of North Macedonia and that others may have been involved, authorities are waiting to hear if one of the victims also came from the Balkan country.
27. October 2020.
Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama said that secret negotiations have secured the return from Syria of several of the children of Islamic State fighters from Albania after years spent in refugee camps.
27. October 2020.
The Bosnian state prosecution has requested a one-month custody remand for Jahja Vukovic, who is suspected of having organised a terrorist group.
26. October 2020.
The Bosnian state prosecution filed a custody motion asking for a 30-day custody remand for Jahja Vukovic, who is suspected of terrorism and going to fight in Syria, because he might abscond.
20. October 2020.
A witness told the trial of Emir Alisic, who is accused of going to fight for the so-called Islamic State in Syria, that he saw the defendant uniformed and armed with a explosives belt around his waist.
14. October 2020.
Almir Dzinic, who was sentenced to one year in prison back in 2016 for going to fight in Syria, has been arrested for robbery in the village of Srednje, near Ilijas, the Sarajevo Cantonal Prosecution told BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina.
6. October 2020.
The Cantonal Court in Zenica has upheld a verdict sentencing Mehmud Tutmic, who was found guilty of going to the Syrian battlefront, to a year and a half in prison for illegal possession of weapons or explosive substances, it was confirmed to the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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