World leaders including United States President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping have expressed their willingness to stand with Bangladesh in fighting terrorism. “I join you in condemning, in the strongest possible terms, this horrific attack that claimed so many innocent lives, including…

Bangladesh and the United States have admitted that fight against Al Qaeda, Da’esh, also known as Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), or IS, and other violent extremist groups is a global challenge and it will have to be dealt with jointly. Washington…

The government has assured the diplomats stationed in Bangladesh of the government’s firm resolve to root out terrorism and militancy from the country. While briefing diplomats on Tuesday (July 5) on the Gulshan attack, Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali said the law enforcement agencies…

Saiful Islam, alias Abu Muktadim, who was caught by law enforcers as a militant suspect from Sholakia after a deadly attack on police on the Eid day, rarely visited his Dinajpur home after he got admitted to a madrassa in Birampur upazila. The family also left the village home about two years ago, said…

The government has got important clues regarding the Gulshan and Sholakia attacks, indicating that terrorists are using social network-based apps and mobile SIMs. “This will help us get to the bottom of it,” a government official told The Independent yesterday. State minister for telecommunications…

Nineteen people, including 12 Pakistani nationals, have been arrested in Saudi Arabia following suicide attacks on Monday, including one near Masjid e Nabwi, Islam's second-holiest site in the city of Medina, the kingdom's Interior Ministry said on Thursday, reports AP from Riyadh. Seven people…

The attack in Kishoreganj's Sholakia was aimed at creating panic among the people that would eventually break the power to protest. The attackers could then enforce their ideals, Sholakia Imam Maulana Farid Uddin Masud has said. Talking to The Independent, he said: “They (The attackers) cannot…