One of the two militants killed in Narayanganj operation has been identified as Fazle Rabbi while another might be Tausif, said Additional Commissioner and head of DMP’s Counter Terrorism and Trans-national Crime (CTTC) Monirul Islam.“One of them has been identified…
Category: Conflicts
Unilateral intervention on common river flow unfair: Inu
Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu today called as unfair unilateral intervention on the flow of common rivers amid reports of damage caused in Bangladesh with the opening of Farakka Barrage gates in the upstream Indian region.“It is not a correct…
Tamim Chy ‘Gulshan attack planner’ among 3 killed in N’ganj raid
Dhaka – Three militants, including alleged Gulshan café attack mastermind Tamim Chowdhury, were killed in a special police operation, ‘Hit Strom’, in a hideout of ‘New JMB’ at a building of Narayanganj sadar upazila in the outskirts of Capital Dhaka…
US, Russia fall short on deal to restore Syria truce
Geneva (AP/UNB) — The United States and Russia said Friday they had resolved a number of issues standing in the way of restoring a nationwide truce to Syria and opening up aid deliveries, but were unable once again to forge…
Police operation on militant JMB’s N’ganj hideout starts
Dhaka -The Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) started busting a suspected den of banned militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) after its discovery in Sadar upazila of Narayanganj district early Saturday, UNB news…
Redicalised extremist youths think themselves ‘popular’- Police survey
Dhaka – Though they have no real support in the community, the ‘wrongly-motivated’ young extremists think themselves popular, UNB news agency reported quoting from the summary of a survey conducted by the Police Headquarters recently. Law enforcers are now looking…
Car bomb attack in Turkey kills 11 police; 78 wounded
Kurdish militants on Friday attacked a police checkpoint in southeast Turkey with an explosives-laden truck, killing at least 11 police officers and wounding 78 other people, officials and the state-run news agency said.The attack struck the checkpoint 50 meters (yards)…
N.Korea’s SLBM reaches stage of deployment
North Korea’s submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) reached “the final stage in preparation for deployment”, the Tokyo-based pro-North media outlet Chosun Sinbo reported on Thursday.“The success of the test-firing based upon the higher-tech capabilities (compared to the past) demonstrated that it’s…
Colombia, FARC rebels reach deal to end half-century war
Colombia’s government and the country’s biggest rebel group reached a historic deal Wednesday evening for ending a half-century of hostilities in one of the world’s longest-running and bloodiest armed conflicts.President Juan Manuel Santos hailed the agreement with the Revolutionary Armed…
North Korea doesn’t relent, fires yet another missile
Dhaka – North Korean auhorities hint that they are determined to continue with their missile and nuclear programmes and are not ready to relent come what may thus keeping the heat in the Korean Peninsula at boiling levels. The decision…
Kurds defuse teenage bomber’s belt
Chilling footage has emerged purporting to show Kurdish security forces defusing an explosive belt attached to a teenage suicide bomber in the Iraqi city of Kirkuk. The tense moment, captured on camera, showed Kurdish law enforcers arresting a young suicide…
Young suicide bomber attacks Turkey wedding party; 51 dead
An Islamic State group suicide bomber as young as 12 years old attacked an outdoor Kurdish wedding party in southeastern Turkey, killing at least 51 people and wounding dozens of others, the Turkish president said Sunday.The bombing late Saturday in…
30 dead and 90 hurt in Turkey’s Gaziantep wedding blast
An explosion at an outdoor wedding party in the southern Turkish city of Gaziantep has killed at least 30 people and injured 94 more, the region’s governor says. The Turkish government has called it a “terror attack” and suggested it…
BNP’s Swechchhasebak Dal leader stabbed dead in Sylhet
Dhaka –A local leader of Jatiyatabadi Swechchhasebak Dal, opposition BNP’s volunteer front was stabbed to death by unidentified miscreants in Sheikhghat Khuliatula area of Sylhet city on Saturday night, UNB news agency reported.
Why ISIS persists
By Jeffrey D. Sachs New York – Deadly terrorist attacks in Istanbul, Dhaka, and Baghdad demonstrate the murderous reach of the Islamic State (ISIS) in Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and parts of Asia. The longer ISIS maintains its…
Incendiary weapons burn in Aleppo, Idlib – HRW
Beirut – The joint Syrian-Russian military operation has been using incendiary weapons, which burn their victims and start fires, in civilian areas of Syria in violation of international law, Human Rights Watch said today. Incendiary weapons have been used at…
14 killed in attacks on police, military in Turkey
Ankara (AP/UNB) — A string of bombings, blamed on Kurdish rebels and targeting Turkey’s security forces, killed at least 14 people and wounded more than 220 others, officials said Thursday. Two of the attacks were car bombings that hit police…
Coup in Turkey has has changed geopolitical landscape
By Mile Whitney A failed coup in Turkey has changed the geopolitical landscape overnight realigning Ankara with Moscow while shattering Washington’s plan to redraw the map of the Middle East. Whether Turkish strongman Recep Tayyip Erdogan staged the coup or…
Boy in ambulance: Omran Daqneesh image shows horror in Aleppo, Syria
Syrian opposition activists have released haunting footage showing a young boy rescued from the rubble in the aftermath of a devastating airstrike in Aleppo.The image of the stunned and weary looking boy, sitting in an orange chair inside an ambulance…
Turkey proposes roadmap to end Syria war
Turkey’s government says it has come up with a three-step solution to try and end the war in Syria. It involves preserving the country’s territorial integrity, ensuring non-sectarian governance and Syrians returning home. – Source: Al-Jazeera
Taskforces for closing Dhaka’s illegal KG Schools
Masum Billah KG schools have mushroomed at every nook and corner of the country ranging from the remotest village to the capital city. This fact coupled with the recent terrorist attacks has drawn the attention of the government to look…
Tk 5 lakh bounty for info on militant ABT leader Selim
Dhaka – Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) onece again annouced bountry of Tk 5 lakh for giving information to police to help arrest of a top leader of banned Islamic outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) as he was said to be…
Oil tanker ‘hijacked off Malaysia’
A Malaysian oil tanker carrying 900,000 litres of diesel has been hijacked and taken to Indonesian waters, Malaysian maritime officials say.
11th anniversary of Aug 17 serial bomb blasts Wednesday
Dhaka – Today the 17th of August is the 11th anniversary of the countrywide serial bomb blasts carried out by banned Islamic militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) in 63 out of 64 district headquarters in 2005, the penultimate year of departure…
Russian jets bomb Syrian rebels from Iran
Russian jets based in Iran on Tuesday struck targets inside Syria, the Russian defence ministry said, after Moscow deployed aircraft to an Iranian air force base to widen its campaign in Syria.The ministry said the strikes, by Tupolev-22M3 long-range bombers…
Chaos over ‘shots fired’ at JFK
Flights in and out of New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport are back on schedule after a false gunman scare last night led to evacuations and a four-hour sweep of two terminals. Passengers at New York’s John F. Kennedy…
Why North Korea is flavor of the month for US media
Donald Kirk “What counts is the story the North Koreans want the world to know”. North Korea is looking like the flavor of the month for American broadcast media. ABC’s Bob Woodruff was just there, interviewing a foreign ministry official,…
Thai resorts of Phuket and Hua Hin hit by deadly explosions
A series of apparently coordinated blasts across Thailand, including in the tourism hotspots of Hua Hin and Phuket, have left at least four dead and dozens injured.Police said 10 foreigners were injured in the violence, some of the worst in…
Strengthen public opinion against militancy, PM tell Ulema
Dhaka – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday urged all, including the Ulema, to strengthen the public opinion against terrorism and militancy among the common people. “I think a strong public opinion has been created across the country against terrorism…
Poroshenko Puts Troops In Eastern Ukraine On Highest Alert
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says he has instructed all military units near Russian-occupied Crimea and in the easterly Donbas region to be at the highest level of combat readiness, following Russian allegations of a Ukrainian incursion into Crimea.