Israeli embassy in Belgrade

BELGRADE - Serbian Interior Minister Ivica Dacic decided on Friday to lift a red terrorism alert following a decline of the level of security challenges, risks and threat of terrorist acts.

BELGRADE - Serbian Deputy PM and Interior Minister Ivica Dacic said on Tuesday a decision on a potential lifting of a red terrorism alert declared after Saturday's attack on a Serbian gendarme outside the Israeli embassy in Belgrade was due at the end of this week.

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Milos Vucevic said on Tuesday a red security alert declared in the wake of Saturday's terrorist attack outside the Israeli embassy in Belgrade would remain in force for a few more days and that Serbian security agencies were working on uncovering cells of religious extremists.

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian parliamentary committee on defence and interior affairs Milovan Drecun said a terrorist who had wounded a gendarme in an attack outside the Israeli embassy in Belgrade on Saturday had not been acting alone as he had later been found to have had ties with other religious converts who were members of the same Islamist organisation of Wahhabists.

BELGRADE - Serbian Interior Minister Ivica Dacic said on Monday a statement by the wife of a man who was gunned down after wounding a Serbian gendarme outside the Israeli embassy in Belgrade on Saturday confirmed the attack was an act of terrorism.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Sunday a Serbian gendarme who killed a terrorist during Saturday's attack on the Israeli embassy in Belgrade would be decorated and noted that the people of Serbia had no reason for fear.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Sunday a Serbian gendarme who killed a terrorist during Saturday's attack on the Israeli embassy in Belgrade would be decorated and noted that the people of Serbia had no reason for fear.

The Israeli embassy in Belgrade said it was "happy" to hear that Serbia plans to open a diplomatic representative office in Jerusalem, which Israel claims as its capital.