Tag: local police chief

Islamist militants in the Philippines have beheaded seven local loggers they kidnapped last week in their stronghold in the strife-torn ...

Bangladesh police have arrested a man suspected of murdering two Rohingya leaders in the country's southeast where tens of thousands ...

A woman who survived an alleged gang rape and four separate acid attacks has once again been hit by corrosive ...

Eight men have been arrested for violently ambushing a government convoy transporting cows in northwest India, police said Tuesday, the ...

Bangladesh police Monday widened a sweeping crackdown against Jamayetul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) militants, arresting at least 10 suspected extremists and ...

Philippine opposition lawmakers on Monday asked the Supreme Court to reject President Rodrigo Duterte's imposition of martial law in the ...

Four hungry chickens clawed at rubbish in a deserted street that smelt of corpses as military helicopters skimmed the rooftops ...

At least 15 members of a single family were killed when a pickup truck veered off the road and plunged ...

He said the attack occurred near the southern city of Marawi, which is under siege by Islamic militants, as justification ...

Blood was already pooling in the seat of her car when a second bullet tore through the driver's door and ...

An Indian village has banned women from using mobile phones in public in an attempt to restrict their contacts with ...

Four suspected Islamist fighters blew themselves up at a hideout in Bangladesh, ending a 24-hour standoff, police said Friday. Police ...

Bangladeshi villagers buried the leader of a banned Islamist extremist outfit and two of his aides early Thursday, hours after ...

Somalia's new military boss has survived a suspected suicide car bomb attack that has killed at least 15 people, according ...

Bangladesh police came under grenade attack when they raided two suspected Islamist extremist hideouts on Wednesday, days after a major ...

Taliban fighters captured the strategic southern district of Sangin on Thursday, officials said, another setback for Afghan forces in opium-rich ...

Arson has not been ruled out after blazes tore through three butcher's shops in Uttar Pradesh, days after the state's ...

Indian police said Wednesday they were not ruling out arson after fire gutted three butcher shops in Uttar Pradesh state, ...

The massive tree crushed students while they were swimming At least 18 people, mainly high school students, have died after ...

Suspected Islamist militants hurled bombs at a prison van in a daring attempt to free Bangladesh's most-wanted militant leader from ...