Police in Bangladesh have killed nine suspected Islamist militants after a gun battle in Dhaka, officials said. Police were searching the residential area of Kallyanpur when they were attacked by handmade bombs. Bangladesh has seen a string of deadly attacks on secular writers, bloggers, and member of religious minorities....
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All 300,000 mosques in Bangladesh have been asked give a sermon against terrorism and extremism in their Friday prayers this week. The sermon, written by the state-run Islamic Foundation, condemns the "unjust killing of any human being". It also urges parents to protect their children from "brainwashing"....
Bangladesh has said it intends to ban the Islamic television channel, Peace TV, in the wake of the deadly attack on a cafe in the capital, Dhaka. The government's decision comes amid fears that hardline views on the channel could radicalise youth. A preacher on the channel, Zakir Naik, denied allegations his words could...
Gunmen have opened fire at a Bangladesh mosque, killing one policeman and injuring at least five others, during an Eid congregation on Thursday. More than 100,000 worshipers were praying in an area called Sholakia, 62 miles (100 kilometers) northeast of Dhaka, when the attack began, Kishoregunj District Police Assistant...
Bangladesh police have admitted they mistakenly identified a hostage as one of the gunmen in the deadly attack on a cafe in Dhaka last Friday. Officials initially said troops killed six gunmen when they ended a siege on the Holey Artisan Bakery. Police now say one man identified as an attacker was in fact a hostage also held at...
Bangladeshi officials have named five of the men who carried out the country's worst terror attack on Friday and said they were known to police. Twenty hostages, most of them foreign, were killed when Islamist militants stormed a cafe in the capital, Dhaka. Two police officers also died and 30 were injured. After a 12-hour...
Bangladeshi officials have named five of the men who carried out the country's worst terror attack on Friday and said they were known to police. Twenty hostages, most of them foreign, were killed when Islamist militants stormed a cafe in the capital, Dhaka. Two police officers also died and 30 were injured. After a 12-hour...
A multi-national crowd was dining when terrorists invaded the trendy restaurant in a diplomatic enclave of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. The attackers took hostages and exchanged gunfire with police until soldiers moved in and killed the militants. Twenty people inside the Holey Artisan Bakery cafe were killed, along with...
Twenty people, most said to be foreigners, have been killed in an attack by suspected Islamist militants on a cafe in Bangladesh, the army says. Gunmen stormed the Holey Artisan Bakery cafe in Dhaka late on Friday before troops entered almost 12 hours later. Six of the attackers were also killed and one was arrested, a...
ISIS has claimed responsibility for a deadly attack at a cafe in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. Foreigners are being held hostage in an ongoing shooting and hostage situation at the cafe in Gulshan, a neighborhood popular with foreigners. Authorities did not immediately provide the nationalities or number of hostages. Two...
A shooting and hostage situation is underway in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, the U.S. Embassy in Dhaka said. The situation is unfolding in Gulshan, a neighborhood popular with foreigners. U.S. State Department spokesman John Kirby said today all U.S. Chief of Mission personnel are accounted for....