Alija Izetbegovic

BELGRADE - Alija Izetbegovic, former leader of the Bosnian Muslims, was the one who had masterminded Daesh [ISIS/ISIL/Islamic State] projects, President of Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik told Sputnik on Friday.

News agency Srna reports that former Bosnian interior minister Alija Delimustafic and the former bodyguard of wartime president Alija Izetbegovic, Jusko Skrijelj, were arrested in the major operation on Friday morning in East Sarajevo.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan paid tribute on Wednesday night to Bosnia's wartime president, Alija Izetbegovic, on the 13th anniversary of his death.

"Alija, as leader in the fight for Bosnian Muslims, enabled the survival of Europe's most important Islamic community," Erdogan tweeted. 

Friday's appointment of Sebija Izetbegovic, wife of the Bosniak member of the Bosnian Presidency, as director of the University Clinical Center of Sarajevo, UKCS, an important medical institute, has caused controversy in Bosnia.

Sebija, who has been director of the Abdulah Nakash hospital in Sarajevo since 2013, was elected at a session of the board of the UKCS on January 6.

Today marks 20 years since the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia-Herzegovina, also known as the Dayton Agreement, was signed in Paris in 1995.

It was signed by the then presidents of Serbia and Croatia, Slobodan Milosevic and Franjo Tudjman, and Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia-Herzegovina Alija Izetbegovic.

A congress of the Party of Democratic Action, SDA, on Tuesday elected a new leadership for the new four years, electing Bakir Izetbegovic as president while choosing a deputy president, eight vice-presidents and a new main board.

Izetbegovic on Thursday demanded an apology from Republka Srpska President Dodik for his comments about Alija Izetbegovic, the first president of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the incumbent Bosniak leader's late father. 

Sulejman Tihic, president of Bosnia's largest Bosniak party, the Party of Democratic Action, SDA, died on September 25 in Sarajevo after a years-long fight with cancer.

EASTERN SARAJEVO - Serbs from Republika Srpska (RS) commemorated on Saturday the death of 42 soldiers of the former Yugoslav Army (JNA) who were killed in the Dobrovoljacka street in Sarajevo 22 years ago, and at the same time, former members of the so called Green Berets gathered at the same location, but they dispersed without incident.