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The US embassy in Sarajevo and Bosnia’s peace overseer criticised Bosnian Serb officials’ decision to establish a commission to probe crimes committed in Srebrenica during the war, which Bosniaks claim is a bid to rewrite history.

The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina has charged Munib Ahmetspahic - who was previously acquitted of having a role in the 2011 attack on the US embassy in Bosnia - with membership of a terrorist formation in Syria.

Under strong local and international pressure, Bosnia's Central Election Commission, CIK, on Tuesday adopted a decision fixing the country's dysfunctional election law and enabling the establishment of a new government in the Federation entity, which it has lacked since last October's elections.

Bosnian police arrested Munib Ahmetspahic on Thursday evening at Sarajevo Airport, sources close to the investigation told BIRN in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

More than 50,000 national and international observers will monitor Bosnia's eight post-war election whose campaign has less than a week to run.

The Central Electoral Committee has accredited 2,9191 observers, but this figure only refers to those who will be observing the CIK and the main vote collection centre.

The state court in Sarajevo on Wednesday acquitted the leader of the Alliance for a Better Future for Bosnia party, businessman Fahrudin Radoncic, of obstructing the work of the judiciary, along with three other defendants.

Republika Srpska Prime Minister Zeljka Cvijanovic, along with the wife of the entity president, were in Washington on Friday to attend events surrounding Donald Trump's inauguration as new US President.

Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik on Monday said the United States had refused to issue him a diplomatic visa to attend the January 20 inauguration of President Donald Trump.

Dodik said he was told that he would not be travelling to the US as representative of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The trial of the leader of the Alliance for a Better Future for Bosnia, SBBBiH, Fahrudin Radoncic, his party colleague, Bakir Dautbasic, Dautbasic's partner, Bilsena Sahman, and a former employee of the US embassy in Sarajevo, Zijad Hadzijahic, started on Wednesday.

A court in Graz, Austria, on Thursday jailed a Bosnian citizen, Fikret Begic, to eight years in prison for recruiting volunteers for Islamic State, ISIS.

Croatian police arrested Begic, 49, originally from the town of Konjic but now living in Graz, in January 2015 in Slavonski Brod, while he was trying to cross the border with Bosnia.