(AP) Police in North Macedonia say they have arrested three men on suspicion of planning terrorist attacks in the country and have seized a large quantity of weapons in raids in five locations in the country’s north.
Police said on Tuesday the three men, one aged 22 and the others aged 25, had previously been convicted of participation in the Islamic State militant group and had served jail sentences on their return from the Middle East.
They were arrested on suspicion of creating and participating in a “criminal cell, based on the ideological matrix of the ISIS terrorist organization, with the intention of carrying out a terrorist act on targets in the territory of the Republic of Northern Macedonia,” police said. No specific targets were mentioned.
