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Osman Mehmedagic, former director of Bosnia's Intelligence and Security Agency and now sanctioned by the US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control, OFAC, reacted to the penalty by saying that the "accusations are unfounded and false".

Bosnia and Herzegovina's Service for Foreigners' Affairs told BIRN that police are searching for Robert Rundo, an alleged white supremacist who is wanted in the US for inciting a riot and taking part in violence.

A court in Bosnia and Herzegovina has terminated restrictions on the movement of Turkish citizen Fatih Keskin, previously imposed by the Service for Foreigners' Affairs following his arrest and subsequent release in December last year, the court told BIRN BiH.

Terrorist group al-Shabaab on Dec. 30 evening claimed responsibility for Saturday's suicide truck bombing in Somalia that killed some 80 people, including two Turkish citizens, and wounded over 150 others.

Philippe Bertinchamps, a correspondent for various French-language media, was granted a temporary one-year residence permit by Serbia on Monday after Reporters Without Borders, RSF complained that he had been threatened with expulsion for being an "obstacle to public order and national security".

BANJALUKA - The Republika Srpska public broadcaster RTRS reported Thursday it had obtained secret orders issued by the Bosnia and Herzegovina Intelligence and Security Agency (OBA) for eavesdropping on Serbian officials.

The operation has been underway for five months, the report said, and the RTRS website published scans of OBA documents designated as secret.

BANJALUKA - The Republika Srpska public broadcaster RTRS reported Thursday it had obtained secret orders issued by the Bosnia and Herzegovina Intelligence and Security Agency (OBA) for eavesdropping on Serbian officials.

The operation has been underway for five months, the report said, and the RTRS website published scans of OBA documents designated as secret.

RTRS has reported that it obtained secret orders issued by the Bosnia-Herzegovina Intelligence and Security Agency (OBA) for eavesdropping on Serbian officials.

RTRS is the public broadcaster in the Serb entity (RS) in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

The President of Bosnia's Serb-dominated entity, Milorad Dodik, said his entity may withdraw from Bosnia's state-level security apparatus following an attack on a police station in the east of the country.
 
"Republika Srpska was shot at and we have right to defend ourselves, and we will defend ourselves," Dodik said.
 

Bosnian police arrested two Islamic militants, suspected to be travelling to Syria, at Sarajevo airport on Tuesday evening as they were boarding the flight to Istanbul.