ZAGREB, May 21, 2018 - Early Monday morning Slovenian police detained two illegal migrants after they entered the country from Croatia by swimming across the Kupa River, while a third person from this group drowned, Slovenian media said.

ZAGREB, May 19, 2018 - Migrants who had waited several hours at the administrative boundary between Sarajevo and Herzegovina-Neretva cantons in Bosnia and Herzegovina finally arrived at a refugee camp in the southern city of Mostar on Friday afternoon, after fierce arguments between central and local government officials earlier in the day about who authorised the transfer of the refugees from a makeshift tent settlement in Sarajevo to the Salakovac camp in Mostar.

ZAGREB, May 18, 2018 - Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović told the Bosnia-Herzegovina edition of the Večernji List daily on Friday that Croatia would do everything to prevent the entry of migrants from Bosnia and Herzegovina and announced support to the Bosnian authorities in dealing with this problem.

ZAGREB, May 18, 2018 - Interior Minister Davor Božinović said on Thursday in the coastal city of Šibenik, where he was attending celebrations for Šibenik-Knin County Day, that all institutions are equally responsible for the perception of the fight against corruption - the government, judiciary, state prosecutors, the USKOK anti-corruption office, and the Interior Ministry.

ZAGREB, May 17, 2018 - Bosnia and Herzegovina's Prime Minister Denis Zvizdić said on Thursday that the country's border police would be reinforced to ensure complete control of the borders with Serbia and Montenegro in order to prevent migrants from entering the country illegally.

After two years of relative calm, the Balkan refugee route seems to be active again.

ZAGREB, May 13, 2018 - The director of Bosnia and Herzegovina's border police Zoran Galić said on Saturday that his police branch needed to be manned by more staff to be able to cope with a rising number of migrants passing through the country on their way to western and northern Europe.

ZAGREB, May 11, 2018 - Nearly 3,500 illegal migrants have entered Bosnia and Herzegovina this year and the authorities do not know how many of them are still in the country and how many continued their journey to western Europe, the Banja Luka-based Nezavisne Novine newspaper said on Friday.

ZAGREB, April 25, 2018 - Although a majority of refugees did not initially intend to stay in Croatia, many change their minds while waiting for asylum, the head of the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) Tvrtko Barun said in Zagreb on Wednesday.

ZAGREB, April 24, 2018 - Prosecutorial authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina on Tuesday reported that the police conducted an operation on early Tuesday morning to break a ring of traffickers who organised the transport of illegal migrants, and more than a score of people were arrested during the operation.