Kosovo Arrests 15 for Recruiting Extremists to Join in Iraq, Syria
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Kosovo police arrested 15 people for recruiting people to join the fights in Iraq and Syria on Wednesday, local media reported.
Police confirmed they had targeted 16 locations and detained 15 people across Kosovo in the second operation of its kind since August, but did not give details of those arrested.
In mid-August, Kosovo police arrested 40 people on similar charges. Weapons, ammunition and explosives were seized as special police units raided 60 locations across Kosovo.
Earlier this month [September], a Kosovo journalist said he had received dozens of threats via social networks, some of them threatening him with beheading, for drawing attention to the rise of extremism.
Local media say as many as 150 Kosovars are thought to have volunteered to fight in Syria. Police say at least 16 have been killed in Iraq and Syria so far.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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