Tag: Rapid Action Battalion

Four suspected Islamist extremists surrendered Sunday after a night-long standoff with Bangladeshi police in which they detonated explosives and opened ...

An upscale Bangladeshi restaurant has banned foreign guests, fearing a repeat of last year's deadly terrorist attack in a Dhaka ...

Bangladesh security agencies have secretly detained scores of opposition activists many of whom have later been killed, an international rights ...

A prominent critic of the Bangladesh government has been found safe a day after his family reported him missing, sparking ...

In squalid camps in Bangladesh, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya who have fled violence and persecution in neighbouring Myanmar dream ...

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

Bangladesh police on Sunday arrested a businessman accused of being a major figure in the Islamist group blamed for a ...

Five young Bangladeshis accused of being Islamist militants surrendered to authorities Sunday, an official said, after a lengthy siege that ...

Bangladeshi police arrested 27 young men early Friday in a rare crackdown on homosexuality in the conservative Muslim-majority country, where ...

A senior army officer who headed the intelligence wing of Bangladesh's elite security force died Friday, days after he was ...

A bomber was killed in a blast outside the Bangladeshi capital's main international airport Friday, police said, the third in ...

The Islamic State Group claimed responsibility Saturday for a suicide bomb attack on a Bangladesh security forces camp, while police ...

Bangladesh police shot dead a suspected militant in the capital Dhaka on Saturday a day after a suicide bomber blew ...

A man blew himself up on Friday at a camp for Bangladesh's elite security forces, wounding two others, in an ...