Alija Izetbegović

THE HAGUE - Ratko Mladic's defence on Friday began its closing argument before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), claiming he was not guilty of the crimes he is charged with, which include war crimes and a 1995 genocide of thousands of Muslims in Srebrenica.

THE HAGUE - Ratko Mladic's defence on Friday began its closing argument before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), claiming he was not guilty of the crimes he is charged with, which include war crimes and a 1995 genocide of thousands of Muslims in Srebrenica.

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.

Bosnians in the mainly Bosniak [Muslim] city of Sarajevo rallied in support of US Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton on Saturday - while a self-styled "parody" rally in support of Republican candidate Donald Trump took place in Serb-dominated Eastern Sarajevo, a few kilometres away.

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. 

Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic says Bakir Izetbegovic should explanation a statement he made comparing RS President Milorad Dodik to Muammar Gaddafi.

Nikolic said this for the Belgrade-based Vecernje Novosti newspaper on Tuesday, referring to Izetbegovic - a Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) politician who currently chairs the tripartite Presidency of Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Twenty-three years after death of Srdjan Aleksic, a Bosnian Serb who died saving his Bosniak friend’s life during wartime in 1993, Belgrade officials unveiled a sign dedicating a city street to him.

A new video report from BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina highlights a brutal unpunished massacre of Serb civilians and soldiers by Islamic volunteer forces that fought alongside the Bosnian Army.

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.