Dhaka – Members of the Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit arrested seven suspected members of banned militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) from Tejgaon area of the capital on Monday night, UNB news agency reported.
Category: Conflicts
At least 9 dead after Brazilian prison mutiny
Police say at least nine people have been killed at a Brazilian penitentiary in a clash between rival gangs of inmates in the northern state of Roraima.The state’s justice secretary Uziel Castro says in a statement that seven bodies were…
Bangla Academy DG given death threat
Bangla Academy Director General Professor Shamsuzzaman Khan has reportedly been threatened with death on his mobile phone, bdnews24.com reported.
Israeli rights group urges UN to end Palestinian occupation
United Nations (AP/UNB) – An Israeli human rights group urged the U.N. Security Council on Friday to take decisive action now to end the country’s occupation of Palestinian territory. Hagai El-Ad, executive director of B’Tselem, told an informal council meeting…
Militant attack kills 12 Egyptian soldiers in Sinai
El-Arish (AP/UNB) — Suspected Islamic militants in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula attacked an army checkpoint on Friday, killing 12 soldiers and wounding eight, according to security and medical officials. The officials said the attack took place about 80 kilometers (50 miles)…
Day-long hartal in three hill districts being observed
Dhaha – The day-long hartal, enforced by five Bangalee settlers organisations demanding revocation of the draft Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Land Dispute Resolution Commission (amended) Act 2016, is underway peacefully in the three hill tracts districts on Thursday UNB new…
A nonviolent strategy to end the climate catastrophe
Robert J. Burrowes As the evidence mounts that we are fast approaching the final point-of-no-return beyond which it will be impossible to take sufficient effective action to prevent climate catastrophe – see ‘The World Passes 400 PPM Threshold. Permanently’ http://www.climatecentral.org/news/world-passes-400-ppm-threshold-permanently-20738…
German bomb plot suspect kills himself in prison cell
Berlin (AP/UNB) — A 22-year-old Syrian man arrested in Germany for a suspected Islamic extremist bomb plot killed himself Wednesday in a prison cell in Leipzig, Saxony’s state Justice Ministry said late Wednesday. Justice Ministry spokesman Joerg Herold told The…
Pakistan eyeing possibility of bigger Saarc
Pakistan is exploring the possibility of creating a greater South Asian economic alliance to counter India’s controlling hold on the eight-member South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), diplomatic observers said, Reuters reported. A parliamentary delegation from Pakistan, which is…
Afghan official: 17 dead in militant attack in Kabul shrine
An Afghan official says at least 17 people including a policeman are dead after a militant attack on a Shiite shrine in the capital Kabul late Tuesday.Sediq Sediqqi, the Interior Ministry’s spokesman said Wednesday that another 62 people, including 12…
Indian army kills 2 militants in 3-day standoff in Kashmir
Srinagar: The Indian army said a three-day standoff with suspected rebels ended Wednesday after government forces killed two militants inside a building in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir. The building was extensively damaged in the fighting. Maj. Gen. Ashok Narula…
34 years after the Sabra-Shatila massacre
By Franklin Lamb Shatila Palestinian Refugee camp, Beirut: The intense summer heat was gone and the evening was breezy and cool that fateful Thursday evening, September 15, 1982, according to survivors of the Sabra-Shatila Massacre who, 34 years later, still…
Trial surely of those who made war criminals ministers: Hasina
Dhaka – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday reiterated that those who had made war criminals ministers and MPs must face trial one day in Bangladesh, UNB news agency reported. “The war criminals who have been convicted and even their…
NYC Council members, advocates, speak out against Islamophobia
Dhaka – Elected Officials from across the New York City have rallied on the steps of City Hall declaring their support for the Muslim community and against continued xenophobic rhetoric, says a message received in Dhaka early Wednesday. On Tuesday,…
Six of 7 ‘militants’ killed in Gazipur identified
Dhaka – Family members on Tuesday identified six of the seven suspected militants who were killed in a drive at a house in Patartek area in Gazipur on Saturday, UNB news agency reported.
Farooki to make film on Gulshan cafe attack
Dhaka – Bangladeshi filmmaker Mostofa Sarwar Farooki has announced plans to make a film on the July 1 militant attack on Holey Artisan Bakery and O’ Kitchen in Dhaka’s Gulshan.
Three of 7 ‘militants’ killed in Patartek in Gazipur identified
Gazipur – Family members on Tuesday identified two of the seven suspected militants who were killed in a drive at a house in Patartek area here on Saturday, UNB news agency reported.
‘JMB suspect’ held in C’nawabganj
Dhaka – Detectives arrested a suspected member of banned militant outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh from Khakchapra area in Islampur union parishad of Sadar upazila in Chapainawabganj district early Tuesday, UNB news agency reported.
DMP releases photos of 7 militants killed in Saturday raids
Dhaka – Police on Sunday night released the photos of seven alleged militants who were killed during Saturday’s raid by at a den in Patartek area of Gazipur district. The photos surfaced on Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s (DMP’s) news portal ‘DMP…
Nine Myanmar police killed by insurgents at BD border
Dhaka – At least nine police officers of Myanmar have been killed and four wounded in multiple assaults on border guard posts along the Southeast Asian nation’s frontier with Bangladesh Yangon authorities said, Reuters news agency reported.
Militants’ extra-judicial killing crime against humanity: BNP
The BNP has described the death of suspected militants in raids as ‘extra-judicial killings’ and termed it a ‘crime against humanity.’ “As a lawyer, I think the killings without solving the mystery these are tantamount to crimes against humanity,” BNP…
‘JMB financer’ Abdur Rahim dies in Rab custody
Dhaka – Alleged financer of banned militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), Abdur Rahim, who suffered injuries in a raid by Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab), died at Enam Medical College Hospital in Savar on Saturday night.
Unicef calls for end to ‘dire’ situation in Aleppo
Beirut (AP/UNB) – Unicef’s representative in Syria called Saturday for an end to the violence that has beset northern Aleppo, causing “dire” humanitarian and psychological impacts on both sides of the divided city. U.N. agencies are on “standby” to deliver…
UN Security Council votes as Aleppo graveyards crowded
Russia vetoes French draft urging end to military flights over Aleppo while Russian draft fails to gather enough votes. Western governments and Russia have clashed at the UN Security Council even while the Syrian government presses ahead with its military…
Militancy ‘financer’ held with Tk 30 lakh in Dhaka’s Savar
Dhaka – Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) on Saturday arrested an alleged financer of the banned militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) along with Tk 30 lakh from a house at Baipail in Ashulia of Savar, UNB news agency…
Arrested extremists are killed to save face, alleges BNP
Dhaka – The BNP has said that the government “resorts to instantaneous killing of the arrested terror-involved suspects” because it is apprehensive that their interrogation could lead to “revelation of facts embarrassing to the government”.
Major (retd) Zia to be arrested anytime: Home Minister
Dhaka – Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said Satrurday Major (retd) Zia, the mastermind of the Gulshan café’ terrorist attack ‘will hopefully be nabbed at anytime’. “Major (retd) Zia is now under the close watch of detectives . . . He…
11 ‘militants’ killed in Gazipur, Tangail operations
Dhaka – Eleven suspected militants, including JMB Dhaka regional commander Akash, were killed in separate operations conducted by police and Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members in their hideouts in Gazipur and Tangail districts on Saturday, UNB news agency reported.
Rab raids ‘militant den’ in Gazipur, another BD city
Dhaka – Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) have launched a raid at a suspected militant den in Harinal area of Gazipur city, on the north of Dhaka City, UNB news agency reported.
Russia, Syria to face war crimes probe: Kerry
Secretary of State John Kerry called Friday for Russia and Syria to face a war crimes investigation for their attacks on Syrian civilians, further illustrating the downward spiral in relations between Washington and Moscow.