Two Iraqi men who arrived in Finland as part of Europe's huge migrant influx were charged Tuesday with war crimes allegedly committed in their home country, officials said.

"Both cases are acts that have been defined as war crimes by the International Criminal Court...and are related to violating the corpses of dead enemy soldiers," district prosecutor Juha-Mikko Hamalainen wrote in a statement.

The alleged crimes took place in Iraq between 2014 and 2015, according to the prosecutor, who did not specify where. The names of the suspects were not released, but both arrived in Finland late last year.

The prosecutor told the Finnish news agency STT that the men claimed to have fought against the Islamic State group. Both men have pleaded not guilty and their cases are to be heard separately on March 18 and 22.

Finland, a country of 5.4 million people, received some 32,000 mostly Iraqi asylum seekers last year, as Europe experienced it biggest migrant crisis since World War II.

More than one million migrants fleeing war in Syria and upheaval across the Middle East, Asia and Africa landed in Europe since the start of 2015.

Bosnians willing to do time to leave IS jihad: prosecutors
Sarajevo (AFP) March 8, 2016 - Some Bosnian jihadists who have joined the Islamic State group want to return home and are ready to serve prison sentences to escape the difficult conditions in Iraq and Syria, prosecutors said Tuesday.

"Because of the unbearable conditions there, a number of Bosnian citizens in Syria or Iraq have contacted the (Bosnian) security agencies with the intention of returning to the country," said a statement from the prosecutors' office responsible for terrorism cases.

It said the jihadists were ready to "plead guilty and serve a prison sentence".

Prosecutors also welcomed an agreement reached with 24-year-old Emin Hodzic, who was arrested in September 2014 and pleaded guilty to "forming a terrorist group" and having "joined IS structures" in Syria and Iraq.

He agreed to serve 12 months in prison after the plea bargain deal that avoided a trial.

The statement did not specify the number of Islamist fighters who want to return to the Balkan country, which in 2014 adopted new legislation allowing jail sentences of up to 20 years for jihadists and their recruiters.

"Dozens of people are affected by the investigation," said prosecutors' spokesman Boris Grubesic.

"To date, 20 people have been charged with recruitment or joining foreign paramilitary groups," he said.

In November a Bosnian court jailed a radical Muslim leader for seven years for inciting terrorism by encouraging his followers to join jihadists in Syria and Iraq.

Local authorities cited by Bosnian media estimate the number of citizens who have gone to fight in the Middle East at between 230 and 330 -- some of them with their families. At least 26 have died and 50 returned home.

Bosnia has issued arrest warrants through Interpol against 67 suspects, Security Minister Dragan Mektic said earlier this week.

About 40 percent of Bosnia's 3.8 million people are Muslim, the vast majority of them moderates. The rest are mainly Orthodox or Catholic Christian.