Two tribal people, including a leader of Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samity (PCJSS), were shot dead in an attack by miscreants at Lemuchari in Sadar upazila early Sunday. The deceased were identified as Supriya Chakma, a leader of the PCJSS…
Category: Conflicts
Turkey allows US to use airbase for strikes against IS
Turkey is to let the US carry out airstrikes against the Islamic State group from a key military base near the Syrian border, US officials have said. The agreement, yet to be confirmed by Ankara, follows months of negotiations. The…
Activists targeted in Turkey border town: 27 killed
An explosion has killed at least 27 people and wounded many more in the Turkish town of Suruc near the Syrian border, the interior ministry says. The blast occurred in the garden of a cultural centre. Hundreds of youth workers…
Tennesse attack: Gunman Abdulazeez ‘sent war text’
The night before a gunman killed five US service personnel in Tennessee, he sent a text message linking to a religious verse about “declaring war”, reports say. Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez also spoke out against conflicts in the Middle East, according…
Gunman shoots dead 4 Marines at Tennessee Navy facility
The gunman who shot and killed four Marines Thursday during two attacks at military facilities in Chattanooga, Tenn., has been identified as Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez, a law enforcement source confirmed to Fox News. Abdulazeez, 24, was born in Kuwait, a…
Srebrenica residents try to move on from massacre
By Guy Delauney For people in Srebrenica, it is tempting to feel that the town only exists for a few days a year – at least as far as the rest of the world is concerned. The first indication that…
Rakkhine minister’s damgerpos lie to coverup genocide
The European Rohingya Council (ERC) has refuted Rakhine State Minister Maung Maung Ohn’s claims in an interview with an Indian magazine terming his words as lies and utter denial of the real situation. Maung Maung Ohn in the interview claimed…
How Colombia’s army executed civilians, called them guerrillas
By Joe Parkin Daniels On March 16, 2007, a Colombian military general named Henry William Torres Escalante gave the “direct order” to kill an unarmed farmer and his teenage son, dress them with weapons, and declare their bodies enemy combatants…
Indian raid into Mynmar raises regional tensions
A cross-border raid last week by Indian soldiers into Myanmar has raised regional tensions. The unusual operation targeted insurgents after the biggest rebel attack on Indian soldiers in two decades. The BBC’s Sanjoy Majumder travelled to the north-eastern state of…
B’desh, Myanmar exhange fire as BGB man taken from Naf
State Minister for Home Asaduzzman Khan on Wednesday said the border guards of Bangladesh and Myanmar exchanged gunfire at Jadimura of the NafRiver in Teknaf upazila due to misunderstanding. “However, the cause of misunderstanding between the border guards of the…
China has new hypersonic glider that could deliver nukes?
By Ryan Faith ic regime begins at Mach 5 or so — about one mile per second — and goes up from there. There’s not a super-precise, fixed definition, exactly, but these are the speeds at which all those equations…
Korea conducts joint navy-artillery night training drill
Drill tests joint defensive operation capability, tests new technology North Korea’s Korean People’s Army conducted a “night naval fire strike drill” attended by Kim Jong Un,the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported Tuesday. Artillery units from the KPA 10th Corps…
Exodus in the Bay of Bengal
By Kanya D’Almeida UN, Jun (IPS) – For a while it went unnoticed: a boatload of migrants here, a vessel full of refugees there. But since 2012, the complex and unregulated movement of human beings through South and Southeast Asia–…
G7 to discuss ‘standing up to Russian aggression’ – Obama
President Barack Obama has said G7 leaders will discuss “standing up to Russian aggression” in Ukraine, as he arrived at the summit in Germany. Trade, violent extremism and climate change would also feature, he said. The annual summit of leading…
Kim Jong Un watching missile launch from nearby boat
North Korea has released video footage of Kim Jong Un watching the May 9 submarine launched ballistic missile (SLBM) test on the Korean Central Television (KCTV) channel today. The footage is taken from a similar vantage point as the photos…
Understanding Indian seven sisters from Bangladesh
Dr. Sinha M. A. Sayeed Anybody interested in knowing and understanding India and its overall policies towards Bangladesh, first of all, instantly appears before him/her is to look at the seven sisters in the north eastern zone and then ask…
European Union anger at Russian travel blacklist
The European Union has responded angrily to Russia’s entry ban against 89 European politicians, officials and military leaders. Those banned are believed to include general secretary of the EU council Uwe Corsepius, and former British deputy prime minister Nick Clegg.…
US calls for land reclamation ‘halt’ in South China Sea
The US has called for an “immediate and lasting halt” to land reclamation in disputed areas of the South China Sea. US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter told the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore that China’s actions in the area were “out…
Islamic State claims Saudi Shia mosque bombing responsibility
The Islamic State (IS) group says it was behind a suicide bombing on a Shia mosque in Saudi Arabia that killed at least 21 people. The attack in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province is the first to be claimed by the…
Why elites love drones
Robert J. Burrowes I sometimes read that drone strikes are counterproductive to western security interests because each person killed by a drone results in more new ‘terrorists’. See, for example, ‘The more civilians US drones kill in the Mideast, the…
Islamic State ‘in control’ of Syria’s Palmyra
Islamic State militants have taken near complete control of the Syrian city of Palmyra, home to some of the world’s most magnificent ancient ruins. There are fears that the militants will destroy the ruins, which Unesco has designated a World…
Missing migrant boat found as countries offer shelter
Migrants found by the BBC last week drifting off the coast of Thailand have been rescued by Indonesian fishermen. A BBC reporter who reached their boat says it is filthy and insect-infested. In a significant change, Malaysia and Indonesia agreed…
ISIS tightens its grip on Iraqi twon of Ramadi
Islamic State militants are cementing their hold on Ramadi – the Iraqi city they captured on Sunday, reports say. Militants were going door-to-door looking for government sympathisers and throwing bodies in the nearby Euphrates river, residents were quoted as saying.
The issue of people affected by conflicts, disasters
Rezaul Karim Chowdhury Why there are the urgency and importance of the issues of “People Affected to Conflict and Disaster”, i)Asia Pacific (AP) is the most effected region in respect of natural disasters, where world 80 % of natural disaster…
100 migrants killed over fight for food on boat
Migrants rescued from a sinking boat off Indonesia have told the BBC that about 100 people died after a fight broke out over the last remaining food. Survivors told of horrific conditions. Three men separately said people were stabbed, hanged…
Iraqi city of Ramadi falls to Islamic State
The Iraqi city of Ramadi has fallen to Islamic State (IS) after government forces abandoned their positions, officials say. The police and military made a chaotic retreat after days of intense fighting. But the US refused to confirm the capture,…
US for regional solution of Rohingya issue
The United States is coming under pressure from human rights groups and some in Congress to help Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants stranded at sea as Southeast Asian nations refuse to let them come to shore. Washington is stepping up its…
Why bloggers continue to be killed in Bangladesh?
By Mohiuddin Kader and Alexandra Zavis The slaying of a third secular blogger in as many months has set a chilling pattern in Bangladesh, a country long associated with a culture of moderation and free expression. Machete-wielding assailants followed Ananta…
The execution of North Korea’s Defence Minister was last in a row
North Korea has executed Minister of the Peoples’ Armed Forces Hyon Yong Chol using an anti-aircraft gun, South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) has said. Hundreds of North Korean officials watched Hyon’s execution on April 30, an NIS deputy director…
North Korea’s Defence Minister Hyon Yong-chol executed
North Korea’s Defence Minister Hyon Yong-chol has been executed, South Korea’s spy agency has told parliament, according to media reports. South Korea’s Yonhap news agency said MPs were told Mr Hyon had been killed on 30 April by anti-aircraft fire…