The United States are sending hundreds of prosecutors to Balkans, Middle East and Northern Africa to investigate the jihadists who are returning from Syria, and who joined the fights in Syria.

“The prosecutors and law implementation advisers are being sent at the respective regions suspected to have such groups,” the U.S. lawyer Eric Holder is quoted as saying.

He added that this personnel will offer critical support to the allies, in order to prosecute individuals who joined terrorist acts.

A French news agency quoted a State Department official as saying that 70 of these prosecutors are working in Albania, Bosnia, Kosovo, Croatia and Serbia.