Ethnic groups in the Republic of Macedonia

Branko Stamenkovic, a prosecutor for high technology crime, has ordered Serbian police to gather information about the people behind the Facebook pages called "Army of Sandzak".

There are several pages bearing the name of Sandzak Army, mostly set up in the last couple of weeks. None has more than 120 members.

A witness told the trial of seven Bosnian Serbs charged with involvement in detaining and murdering Bosniaks and Croats in Kotor Varos said her son was seized and beaten to death.

Gorani decide against forming minority council

BELGRADE -- Serbia's Gorani population will not be forming their national minority council, the Gorani Civic Initiative decided on Wednesday.

The initiative is "the sole political and national organization of this autochthonous people in Serbia," Tanjug reported.

BELGRADE - Serbia's Gorani will not be forming their national minority council, the Gorani Civic Initiative - the sole political and national organisation of this autochthonous people in Serbia - decided on Wednesday.

BELGRADE - The growing number of Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) Albanians turning to jihad is an alarming symptom of the radicalization of Islam in the Balkans, especially in the territory of former Yugoslavia, leading Serbian Islamologist and Orientalist Darko Tanaskovic says.

BELGRADE - Serbs in Albania are one of Europe's most endangered minority communities as they have no recognised status of a national minority or the right to receive institutional education and information in their native tongue, and face assimilation and complete extinction as a result, Serbian Renewal Movement MP Aleksandar Cotric warned on Sunday.

NOVI PAZAR - President of the Meshihat of the Islamic Community in Serbia Mufti Mevlud Dudic said that the Muslim holiday of Ramadan Bayram represents an opportunity to pray for the suffering Muslim people, especially in Gaza, and call for genuine peace among all peoples.

The towering cross in the Aerodrom municipality of Skopje, which was sanctified this week, is a cultural artefact and not meant to cause religious or ethnic offence, said Todor Petrov, the head of the World Macedonian Congress, the NGO behind its construction.

“The cross is not erected to provoke and it is not an anti-Albanian or anti-Muslim symbol,” Petrov said.

BELGRADE – Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu held talks with Party of Democratic Action of Sandzak (SDA Sandzak) leader Sulejman Ugljanin and acting head of the Bosniak National Council Esad Dzudzevic in Belgrade Wednesday.

President urged to "change his mind" about Sarajevo trip

SARAJEVO -- Bakir Izetbegović says he "does not understand the reasoning behind Serbian President Tomislav Nikolić’s plans not to go to Sarajevo."