The retrial of an Islamist extremist who fired at the U.S. embassy in Sarajevo in 2011 opened here Monday after an appeals court had annulled his 18-year sentence.

Mevlid Jasarevic, a Muslim Serbian national, was again charged with "terrorism," prosecutor Dubravko Campara said.

A former Bosnian Serb general who directed the attack on Srebrenica during Bosnia's 1992-95 war was on Thursday cleared of contempt of court for refusing to testify in the trial of the man accused of masterminding the incident.

Radislav Krstic, 65, currently serving a 35-year sentence for aiding and abetting genocide at Srebrenica, again faced U.N. Yugoslav war crimes court judges in The Hague after he declined to give evidence in defense of former top Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic.

The European rights court on Thursday rejected a request by survivors of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre in Bosnia to overturn a Dutch court ruling that confirmed the United Nations' immunity from prosecution over the killings.

The "Mothers of Srebrenica", made up of some 6,000 survivors and relatives of the 8,000 men and boys killed in the massacre of Muslims by Bosnian Serb forces, has for years been seeking a trial of the U.N. and the Dutch state over the alleged failure of peacekeeping troops to protect the enclave.

Former Bosnian Croat President Jadranko Prlic and five co-accused were on Wednesday jailed for between 25 and 10 years for murdering and deporting Muslims in Bosnia in the early 1990s to create a "greater Croatian state."

The six, all top former Bosnian Croat officials, faced 26 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity for their roles in the brutal conflict which formed part of the greater war that broke out after Yugoslavia crumbled in 1991 and in which 100,000 people were killed.

A Bosnian shepherd who killed with an axe a bear that attacked him overnight was hospitalized and his condition was described as serious, a local TV station reported on Sunday.

Blazo Grkovic, who was attacked by a brown bear as he was guarding his flock of sheep at the foot of southern Bosnian mountain Volujak, told local BN television he had "hit it in the neck."

The top leader of one of Bosnia's two semi-autonomous entities, the Muslim-Croat federation, and 18 other people were arrested on Friday in a wide anti-corruption probe, judicial sources said.

Zivko Budimir, Bosnian Croat president of the Muslim-Croat federation which together with Serb-run Republika Srpska make up post-war Bosnia, was arrested in the action, prosecutor's spokesman Boris Grubesic said.

Prosecutors in the Netherlands said Thursday they will not pursue charges against three former Dutch commanders accused of failing to protect Bosnian Muslims during the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.

Survivors of the massacre, the worst single atrocity in Europe since World War II, had lodged a genocide and war crimes complaint against the officers.

Four former Bosnian Serb policemen were sentenced Friday to from 15 to 22 years in prison for their involvement in the execution of at least 150 Muslim and Croat civilians during the 1992-1995 war.

"Zoran Babic, Milorad Skrbic, Dusan Jankovic and Zeljko Stojnic participated in a joint criminal enterprise... and were found guilty of having committed crimes against humanity," judge Mirko Bozovic said.

Bosnia's parliament on Thursday backed the deployment of the country's first combat unit to Afghanistan, where it already has a small contingent of soldiers tasked with providing security for the NATO force there.

A total of 26 members of Bosnia-Hercegovina's military police will leave for Afghanistan to serve "for a period of 10 months" with the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), a defense ministry spokeswoman told AFP.

Bosnian prosecutors on Monday charged eight former members of Muslim armed and police forces with committing war crimes against ethnic Serb civilians during the country's 1990s conflict.

The eight were charged with "taking part in illegal detention of Serb civilians, their inhuman treatment, beating and inflicting of serious bodily injuries... and other inhuman acts," a national prosecutor's office statement said.