ISLAMIC State jihadis have stormed a cafe in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka leaving at least two dead and thirty injured following a tense hostage situation. Hundreds of Bangladeshi police officers laid siege on the building, with officials confirming they had freed twelve hostages, including four foreigners. The fate of...
An Islamist leader has been hanged in Bangladesh for crimes during the war of independence from Pakistan in 1971. Motiur Rahman Nizami, 73, was executed early on Wednesday (local time), Law Minister Anisul Haq confirmed. He had been convicted of genocide, rape and torture. Nizami had led Bangladesh's largest Islamist party,...
A university professor has been hacked to death in Bangladesh, in an attack police say is similar to killings of secular bloggers and atheists by suspected Islamist extremists. AFM Rezaul Karim Siddique, 58, was a professor of English at Rajshahi University in the country's north-west. He was attacked with machetes as he...