Bosnian authorities said they will shut down Muslim groups that advocate extremism and refuse to affiliate with the state-recognized Islamic Community organization by March 1.
Interior ministers from the European Union, Turkey, and the Balkans held fresh talks on February 25 amid major differences over ways to contain an escalating migrant crisis.
Austria and its Balkan neighbors agreed to tighten border controls and warned they may eventually have to shut their borders entirely.
Authorities in Bosnia-Herzegovina are scrambling to provide extra security for the country's most senior Islamic cleric, Grand Mufti Husein Kavazovic, after a Bosnian thought to be fighting with the Islamic State (IS) militant group in Syria issued a threat via the Internet.
The European Union has lost some of its allure for Balkan countries seeking to join, thanks to the migrant crisis and concerns about Britain leaving the bloc, Serbia's prime minister said on February 22.
The UN war crimes court in The Hague will hand down on March 24 its long-awaited verdicts on wartime Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic.
A former Bosnian Serb policeman convicted of war crimes committed during the 1992-95 war has been arrested on new charges.
Bosnia-Herzegovina has formally applied to join the European Union. EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said on February 15 that Sarajevo has filed an application, but Brussels has determined that the Balkans country has not met all necessary conditions to apply.
Bosnian officials say a bank owner and three other officials have been arrested in a controversy over a loan to the president of Bosnia-Herzegovina's Republika Srpska.
Bosnia-Herzegovina's supervising judicial authority has upheld a ban on wearing the Islamic head scarf and other religious symbols in courts and other legal institutions.
Bosnian Serb General Zdravko Tolimir has died in prison in The Hague, where he was serving a life sentence for genocide.
Some 2,000 people, mostly women, have protested in Bosnia's capital against a ban on wearing the hijab, or Islamic headscarf, in courts and other legal institutions.
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