Shariful Islam

Bangladesh Police is finally going to get a fully-fledged unit with jurisdiction to combat militancy and terrorism anywhere in the country.

Mufti Abdul Hannan, one of the country's most dreaded militants, was involved in plotting and carrying out all the terror attacks by Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami Bangladesh. The Huji chief was responsible for the killing of more than a hundred people in 13 militant attacks between 1999 and 2005.

Just-banned militant outfit Ansar al Islam, said to be the Bangladesh chapter of al-Qaeda in Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), has decided to change its recruitment strategy fearing that the online exposure of recruiters would help law enforcers track down its leaders and activists.

Prof Rohan Gunaratna, an international security expert, fears the terrorism and militancy threat to Bangladesh would linger although

The Chittagong den busted on Wednesday was a “Neo JMB” training centre often visited by a man who kept his face covered and gave

Around 82 percent of the arrested militant suspects were radicalised through social media platforms, a police study has found.

A Rangpur court yesterday awarded death penalties to five JMB militants for the killing of Japanese national Kunio Hoshi in 2015.

The government is going to form a special police unit for the protection of VIPs, including ministers, state ministers, deputy ministers and judges.

Almost two years have passed since the murder of writer-blogger Avijit Roy, but police are yet to wrap up the investigation.

Militants and criminals are still obtaining passports on fake information with the help of some unscrupulous policemen and officials of the passport department.

Radicalised Bangladeshis with dual citizenship have become a major challenge for counterterrorism surveillance by law enforcers.

A wake-up call to the nation, the Gulshan café siege made the government and law enforcement agencies take militancy issue seriously and declare an all-out war against terrorism.

The suspension of four policemen of Darus Salam Police Station in October over alleged extortion was no one-off. Since December last year, over a dozen such cases in the DMP area have put the police image in the dock.

A committee assigned by the Police Headquarters is investigating the six incidents of “police excesses” against members of

The mainstream JMB, which has been out of scene for quite a long time, is trying to regroup under a new chief.

A Rab investigation has found that the “Neo JMB financier”, who allegedly jumped to his death from a building during a raid by the elite force on October 8, got his passport using fake name and address.

Militant suspect Tanvir Kaderi, who was killed during a raid in Azimpur, was persuaded by slain army major (retd) Jahidul Islam

The militants turned off all the lights inside the Holey Artisan Bakery around an hour after they stormed the upscale café in the capital's Gulshan.

Two top “Neo JMB” leaders, who were involved in the killing of Prof Rezaul Karim Siddiquee, went to India months before the

The country saw a phenomenal rise in militancy last year when the number of accused militants was the highest after 2005, another year severely plagued by Islamist extremism. The police record shows 597 persons were sued for terror links last year when at least 25 people were killed in 26 targeted attacks by suspected militants.