Focus more on deradicalising ex-militants, increasing surveillance
With the so-called Islamic State trying to regroup in Syria and beyond, Neo JMB, a Bangladeshi IS-inspired group, is becoming active again.
A Chattogram tribunal today sentenced five members of the banned militant group Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) to death for the bomb attack on a naval base in Chattogram.
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested two suspected members of banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) with some books on jihad and leaflets from Ajhoir village in Nachole upazila early yesterday.
Counterterrorism officials yesterday claimed to have arrested two alleged operatives of “Neo JMB” in the city's Jatrabari and Demra areas.
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrests four suspected members of banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), including a woman from Biddaganj Railway Station in Mymensingh.
The Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit yesterday arrested three people who they claim are mainstream JMB members, including a regional commander, who were “motivating and providing training to Rohingya refugees”.
Police claim to have arrested five members including two military wing leaders of outlawed militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh in Bogra's Sherpur upazila early yesterday.
The Rapid Action Battalion has arrested six suspected militants of outlawed Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) in separate drives in Rajshahi and Barisal in 24 hours since Thursday night.
A Dhaka court places Maulana Abul Kashem, the alleged spiritual leader of “Neo JMB”, on a five-day remand in a case filed over the raid in Dhaka’s Kalyanpur area last year.
The Detective Branch (DB) of Police has arrested the alleged JMB chief of Sirajganj, his two sons and another man at Erandah village of Ullapara early Tuesday.
Police arrested 48 more suspected militants on the third day of their countrywide clampdown yesterday, taking the total number of captured “militants” to 85 since the special drive began following Sunday's murder of a top police official's wife by suspected militants in Chittagong.
Police have detained 2,132 people including 48 militants throughout the country as part of their week-long special crackdown on militants.
Three people including an alleged operative of banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) were killed in separate “gunfights” with law enforcers in the capital and Gaibandha early yesterday.
Police say these two men, killed in alleged gunfight with detectives, said to have taken part in the murder of Rajshahi University professor AFM Rezaul Karim Siddiquee and the bomb attack on a Shia mosque in Bogra.
The murders of bloggers, intellectuals, priests, academicians, rights activists, and also persons of ordinary vocations committed by allegedly extremist groups...
Four activists of Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) directly took part in the killing of Rajshahi University Professor AFM Rezaul Karim Siddiquee, police say.
An arrested JMB operative makes judicial confession about his involvement in murder of RU teacher AFM Rezaul Karim Siddiquee, police say. According to them, Maskawat Hasan is Rajshahi region's operational commander of the banned militant outfit.
Election Commission withholds all process for holding elections to all the 16 union councils of Bagmara upazila of Rajshahi.
