by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 4, 2017 | World
Dhaka- Bangladeshi police have arrested the head of a militant group accused of inspiring followers to kill foreigners, the chief of the counter-terrorism unit said on Friday. Shaikh Mohammad Abul Kashem, who founded an offshoot of the larger Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 30, 2016 | World
The US Secretary of State John Kerry yesterday arrived in Bangladesh in order to strengthen cooperation on the fight against terrorism after police announced in a statement that they had killed a group of fighters that were accused of carrying out a terrorist attack...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Aug 27, 2016 | World
Bangladesh police stormed a militant hideout outside Dhaka Saturday, shooting dead three extremists, including the alleged mastermind of a horrific attack on a cafe in the capital last month in which 22 mostly foreign hostages were killed. The three bodies were...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 8, 2016 | World
Dhaka Police said yesterday that two policemen and an unidentified woman were killed after an explosion near the site of mass Eid Al-Fitr prayers in northern Bangladesh. A police official named Mir Musharraf said that the explosions took place near the site of Eid...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jul 7, 2016 | World
Militants carried out another deadly attack in Bangladesh Thursday at the country’s biggest prayer service for the start of Eid al-Fitr, days after a mass murder of hostages in the capital Dhaka. Authorities said two policemen and an attacker had been killed...
