Extremists who return after leaving our country to fight in Iraq and Syria come back with a document certifying that they went to school there.

This document is then used to avoid serving prison time in Serbia, a penalty introduced by the new legislation outlawing participation in wars abroad.

This is what chairman of the Serbian National Assembly's Committee on Control of Security Services Igor Becic told the Belgrade-based daily Politika.

Kosovo police, in cooperation with the Kosovo Intelligence Agency prevented planned terrorist attacks in Kosovo and the region. Target of the attack were footballers, and supporters of Israel during a match in Albania. Miloš Popović from the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy says the objective of the arrested group is transnational because of connections with IS and the target of the attack shows it.

Kosovo’s Interior Minister, Skender Hyseni, told a parliamentary briefing today that according to official information there are 70 active fighters from Kosovo in Syria and Iraq. “There are also 38 women and 27 children. 57 Kosovar nationals have been declared dead,” Hyseni told the parliamentary committee on internal affairs and security. Hyseni said Kosovo Police have been able to prevent 40 Kosovars from going to Syria and Iraq.

The two Kosovo citizens, who claim to have only spent a short time in Syria because they refused to shift allegiance from the Al Nusra militant group to ISIS, pleaded guilty at a Pristina court.

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The plight of the refugees flooding this gritty border town hits a bit close to home — an unlikely kinship that has been spurring the locals into action. The predominantly ethnic Albanian town of Presevo is the first port of call in Serbia for refugees who've crossed the border from Macedonia — an exodus that has stirred up still painful memories from the Kosovo war in the late 1990s.

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“There are still two major challenges for security in Kosovo: the growth of religious extremism and the potential for unrest as a result of the economic, social and political instability. Therefore, it is of utmost importance that security institutions focus their efforts in order to find out the true causes and potentially prevent the eruption of events that could arise from these challenges,” told Florian Qehaja, executive director of the Kosovo Centre for Security Studies.

Kosovo institutions, namely Minister of Foreign Affairs Enver Hoxhaj, has never made a call for supporting opposition forces in Syria, said Deputy Foreign Minister, Petrit Selimi. He said there are attempts by certain individuals to mask their actions with a meeting Kosovo Government officials had with Syrian democratic opposition in Pristina. Selimi said Kosovo will always support all those who pursue Euro-Atlantic policies.