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Belgium's Dries Mertens celebrates after scoring a goal during the World Cup Group H qualifying match between Estonia and Belgium at the A. Le Coq Arena in Tallinn, Estonia, Friday, June 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Marko Mumm)

Mertens leads Belgium to 2-0 win over Estonia

By RAF CASERT - Associated Press

Refugee completes ‘American journey’ by graduating college

By LINDSEY ESTES - Associated Press

Ismail Royer poses for a photograph Thursday, March 30, 2017, in Arlington, Va. Royer has been released from prison after serving more than 13 years on charges that he provided assistance to friends who wanted to join the Taliban after the Sept. 11 attacks. He is hoping his experience will allow him to speak with authority as a voice against Islamic extremism.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Bosnia to Pakistan to prison: Ex-fighter reflects on life

By MATTHEW BARAKAT - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 19, 2010 file photo, Ex-Yugoslav army Gen. Vlado Trifunovic speaks during an interview with The Associated Press, in Belgrade, Serbia. Serbia’s state TV says former Yugoslav army general Vlado Trifunovic, whose treason conviction by Serbia’s wartime nationalist leadership became a symbol of senselessness of the 1990s’ Balkan conflict, has died aged 78. Tuesday’s reports say Trifunovic died on Sunday, Jan. 15, 2017 in Belgrade. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File)

Ex-Yugo general Trifunovic, symbol of senseless war, dies

By JOVANA GEC - Associated Press

Members of police forces of Republic of Srpska march during a parade marking 25th anniversary of Republic of Srpska in the Bosnian town of Banja Luka, Bosnia, on Monday, Jan. 9, 2017. The Jan. 9 holiday commemorates the date in 1992 when Bosnian Serbs declared the creation of their own state in Bosnia, igniting the country's devastating 4-year war. (AP Photo/Radivoje Pavicic)

Defiant Bosnian Serbs celebrate their controversial holiday

By RADUL RADOVANOVIC - Associated Press

FILE - This is a Nov. 11, 2016 file photo of a detailed view of Wayne Rooney's black armband with a poppy on during the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifying, Group F match against Scotland at Wembley Stadium in London. FIFA on Monday Dec. 19, 2016 fined England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland and Northern Ireland soccer federations over display of political symbols. (Mike Egerton/PA, File via AP)

FIFA fines British federations for memorials at WCup matches

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

FILE - In this Friday, June 3, 2011, file photo former Bosnian Serb Gen. Ratko Mladic sits in the court room during his initial appearance at the U.N.'s Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands. UN prosecutors deliver their closing statement in the marathon genocide trial of former Bosnian Serb military chief Gen. Ratko Mladic, who is accused of commanding forces responsible for the worst atrocities of the Bosnian war. (AP Photo/ Martin Meissner, Pool, File)

UN prosecutors demand life sentence for Gen. Ratko Mladic

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

In this photo taken on Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2016, a member of the Slovak luge team practices on a bob and luge track on mount Trebevic near Sarajevo. Sports enthusiasts and former athletes in Bosnia have taken it upon themselves to reclaim some of the glory Sarajevo savored as host of the 1984 Olympics - and in the process rekindled the flame of international cooperation. Since the country lacks the resources to rebuild the Olympic facilities that were destroyed in the deadly war that followed the breakup of Yugoslavia, volunteers bought tools, rolled up their sleeves and got to work. (AP Photo/Amel Emric)

Sports enthusiasts repair devastated Winter Olympic tracks

By AMEL EMRIC - Associated Press

Greece's Nikolaos Karelis, left, and Estonia's Taijo Teniste struggle for a ball during their World Cup Group H qualifying soccer match between Estonia and Greece in Tallinn, Estonia, on Tuesday, March 29, 2016. (AP Photo/Liis Treimann)

Belgium leads Group H with fastest World Cup goal: 7 seconds

By RAF CASERT - Associated Press

CIA Director John Brennan participates in the Senate Intelligence Committee's hearing on worldwide threats on Capitol Hill in Washington on Feb. 9, 2016. (Associated Press) **FILE**

John Brennan, CIA chief, in Bosnia on unannounced counterterrorism visit

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this image taken from video Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic listens to the verdict at the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague, The Netherlands Thursday March 24, 2016. Karadzic was convicted of genocide and nine other charges Thursday at a U.N. court, and sentenced to 40 years in prison. (ICTY, Pool via AP)

Radovan Karadzic, former Bosnian Serb leader, convicted of genocide, sentenced to 40 years

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

A Bosnian police officer secures an area in a Sarajevo suburb as authorities look for 15 people suspected of being in "close contact" with the Islamic State. (Associated Press)

ISIS targets Balkans as next recruitment hotspot

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Countries in the Balkans region have increased their vigilance as fighters for the Islamic State return home with plots to carry out terrorist attacks. The concerns have been exacerbated by the refugee crisis sweeping Europe. (Associated Press)

Islamic State plotting to infiltrate, destabilize Balkans, intelligence suggests

By John Solomon - The Washington Times

Bosnian soldiers repair mine warning signs in fields near the banks of the river Bosnia, which flooded near the town of Visoko, 30 km north of Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina on Tuesday, May 20, 2014. At least two dozen people have died and tens of thousands of people have been forced from their homes. But in addition to the usual dangers, the flooding has unearthed landmines left over from Bosnia's 1992-95 war and washed away the signs that marked them. (AP Photo/Sulejman Omerbasic) ** FILE **

Former prison guard extradited to Bosnia, charged with war crimes

By Maria Stainer - The Washington Times

Pope Francis caresses a boy as he arrives at the John Paul II Diocesan Youth Center, in Sarajevo, Saturday, June 6, 2015. Pope Francis witnessed the horrors of Bosnia's fratricidal war of the 1990s and its slow process of healing Saturday during a one-day visit to Sarajevo, where he urged Muslims, Orthodox and Catholics to put the "barbarity" of the past behind them and work together for a peaceful future. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope tells Bosnians to be ‘tenacious’ workers for peace

By by Ann Schneible - Catholic News Agency