Bilal Bosnic

Man detained in connection to attack "returned from Syria"

A man detained in the wake of the terrorist attack in Zvornik, eastern Bosnia-Herzegovina, last year "returned from Syria," the local media are reporting.

BiH imam targeted by radical Islamists

Police are continuing their search for the radical Islamists who attacked BiH imam Selvedin Beganovic.

Radical Islamists recruit people from the Balkans to join their fights in Iraq and Syria. [AFP]

Husein Bilal Bosnic, the main suspect in a group arrested on suspicion of financing, organising and recruiting Bosnians to fight in the Middle East, was released from detention on Monday alongside four others. 

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Bosnia's State Investigative and Protection Agency, SIPA, on Thursday arrested 11 persons suspected of terrorism offences in a continuation of the September police action codenamed "Damask".

SIPA conducted raids on November 13 at various sites in Sarajevo, Zenica, Kakanj, Maglaj and Zivinice.

A Bosnian prosecutor has asked the country's State Court to extend the detention of Husein Bilal Bosnic and four others by an extra two months.

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Bosnia: Arrests of suspected Muslim extremists

SARAJEVO -- Bosnia's State Investigation and Protection Agency early on Wednesday arrested 17 people suspected of having links with the Wahhabi movement.

The operation, codenamed "Damascus," was conducted in 15 cities in Bosnia-Herzegovina, it was announced.

Officers from the Bosnian State Investigative and Protection Agency, SIPA arrested the alleged jihad recruiters during raids in Sarajevo, Kiseljak, Zenica, Magaj, Srebrenik, Zvornik, Buzim and Teslic on Wednesday in an operation codenamed Damask.