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‘I was in a frightening situation’
Bangladeshi UN official Lt Col (retired) AKM Sufiul Anam, who was taken hostage by Al-Qaeda in Yemen, returned home yesterday after 18 long months in captivity.
Al-Qaeda releases video of kidnapped Bangladeshi UN worker in Yemen
Underlining Yemen's parlous security, on Saturday AQAP released a video showing a United Nations worker who was abducted more than six months ago, the SITE Intelligence Group reported.
Hard power and the war on terror in South Asia
Hard power or the coercive use of force has emerged as the most preferred tool in combatting terrorism in the post-9/11 era.
Rohingya insurgents say no link with global terror
Rohingya insurgents, whose raids in western Myanmar provoked an army crackdown that spurred a humanitarian crisis, have denied any links to global terror groups, days after Al-Qaeda urged Muslims to rally to their cause.
OPINION: Why so-called IS chooses to bomb during Ramadan
To the radical mind, if additional prayer and alms giving is encouraged in Ramadan - then why not more bloodshed too? View it that way and you understand precisely the line of reasoning that has given rise to such a grisly and gruesome death toll this year.
Militants grow in silence
While the government was taking pride in containing militancy by cracking down on Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) over the last several years, two new radical Islamist groups have built up an extensive network that remained relatively unnoticed until late last year.
ISA detentions / How Islamic State in Bangladesh began
Radicalised worker Rahman Mizanur recruited countrymen in Singapore with help of material linked to terror groups.
Motion Timeline: 29 killings in 4 years
Since 2013, at least 29 secular activists, publishers, minorities and advocates of free thinking have been killed in grisly attacks, which are believed to be works of militants. Trial for only one such brutal attack has been completed so far.
Ansar Al Islam claims Kalabagan twin murders
Bangladesh unit of al-Qaeda in the Indian Sub-Continent, Ansar Al Islam, has claimed responsibility of murdering a LGBT magazine editor and his friend in Kalabagan.
Syria Islamists ‘take northern town’
Islamist rebels in Syria takes over much of the key north-western town of Jisr al-Shughur, activists say.
10 killed in Somalia militant attack
Al-Shabab militants attacks a government complex in a busy area of Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, killing at least 10 people.
Shia rebels ‘seize Yemen city’
Parts of Yemen's third largest city Taiz have been seized by Shia rebels
Yemen president appeals for ‘UN intervention’
Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi accuses the Iranian-allied Houthi on Saturday of staging a coup against him and appeals to the United Nations for “urgent intervention”, even as the United States evacuated its remaining forces
Boko Haram pledge to Islamic State
Nigerian militant group Boko Haram pledges allegiance to Islamic State (IS) via Twitter post
5 killed in Mali nightclub attack
Five people are killed in a machine-gun and grenade attack on a nightclub in Mali's capital, Bamako
US not at war with Islam - we are at war with the people who have perverted Islam, says Obama
President Barack Obama says US 'not at war with Islam - we are at war with people who have perverted Islam