Latest News from Bosnia and Herzegovina

Serbs Announce ‘Operation Storm’ Anniversary Mourning

Serbia and Bosnia’s Serb-led entity Republika Srpska will hold a day of mourning to commemorate Serb victims of the Croatian Army’s Operation Storm on its 20th anniversary in August.

ISIS Poses Threat to Balkans, Ministers Say

Interior ministers from the three Balkan countries held a meeting in Podgorica on Tuesday to discuss the threat from radical Islamist movements in the region and ways to prevent it through joint efforts.

"We have agreed that we will not allow terrorism to spread across the region and that we are ready to destroy it," Bosnian Interior Minister Dragan Mektic told reporters.

Bosnia Federation Unions Vow to Stop Labour Law

The Federation trade unions, which say the proposed new law would reduce workers' rights, have announced protests on Thursday when the legislation is expected to be tabled at the Federation entity parliament.

Dodik: Russian support for referendum is "logical"

Milorad Dodik says it is "logical" that Russia has supported the Serb entity's intention to hold a referendum on the state-level justice system in Bosnia.

Bosnia, Croatia Row Over Peljesac Bridge

Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia have traded threats over the construction of the Peljesac Bridge that is designed to connect the Croatian mainland with its southernmost region, cutting across the narrow exit from Bosnia's only coastal town of Neum to the open sea.

"Important Vucic-Izetbegovic conversation, far from cameras"

The sincere conversation Bakir Izetbegovic and Aleksandar Vucic had in Belgrade was "the biggest event, creating room for true reconciliation."

That is what Serb member of the Presidency of Bosnia-Herzegovina Mladen Ivanic told the Sarajevo daily Oslobodjenje.

Bosnian Presidency chair praises Vucic's hospitality

Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic was "a brilliant host" on Wednesday in Belgrade, Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia-Herzegovina Dragan Covic has said.

According to Covic, who represents Croats in the tripartite body, Vucic "showed how friends and guests one invites should to be welcomed."

Bosnian State, Entities, Adopt Key Reforms

Bosnia's tripartite Presidency on Thursday adopted a so-called Master Plan, which is hoped will help kick-start the reform process and enable Bosnia and Herzegovina to obtain EU candidate status in 2017.

A deep security gap over local ISIL members

Years ago, when I was working for daily Radikal, I and our Ankara representative, Murat Yetkin, had a chat with a top-level security official. At those times, there was al-Qaeda. That official said, ?Turkey is catching dozens of al-Qaeda members each month and we are handing them over to our international interlocutors in appropriate ways.? Then he added this was strictly off the record. 

Bosniaks Veto Bosnian Serb Courts Referendum

Bosniak delegates to the Council of Peoples in the Republika Srpska assembly on Thursday used their veto powers to block the assembly's decision last week to hold a referendum on the authority of the state judicial institutions and the Office of the High Representative.

"4,000 IS extremists live in Bosnia" - report

Croatian security agencies estimate that there are about 4,000 Islamic State extremists living in Bosnia, Croatian newspaper Globus reported.

Upper house of Bosnian parliament condemns attack on Vucic

The House of Representatives of Bosnia-Herzegovina on Thursday "fiercely condemned the attack on Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic," Tanjug reported.

The incident happenend during commemorations for the Srebrenica victims in Potocari on July 11.

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