Australia's tour of Bangladesh appears increasingly in danger of being cancelled, with Cricket Australia's security team on their way home to brief players and the board following a series of meetings in Bangladesh over the past two days.

Australia's Test tour of Bangladesh is in doubt after Cricket Australia delayed the departure of its team due to increased security concerns.

Rapid Action Battalion claim to have arrested two militants with firearms and explosives in Cox’s Bazar Sadar upazila.

A Dhaka court places two members of banned Islamist outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team on a five-day remand each in connection with the blogger Niladri Chattopadhyay Niloy murder case.

Prosecution claims that the three lawyers, who were arrested over funding Islamist extremism, confessed before a court in Chittagong about their involvement in the act.

Law enforcers claim arrest of an adviser of the notorious Bangla Bhai, ex-chief of the now banned militant Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB).

A senior US commander in Afghanistan says that fighters allied with Islamic State are in contact with militants' Syrian headquarters.

Three alleged militants of the banned outfit Hizb-ut Tahrir arrested from Chittagong city's Muradpur. An English medium school teacher and a lawyer are among them.

The Taliban warns the leader of the Islamic State group against waging a parallel insurgency in Afghanistan, after a string of defections and reported clashes with militants loyal to IS.

The Detective Branch of police detain two suspected members of the Islamic State (IS) from Dhaka. One of them is said to be a local recruiter who already gathered about 20 activists including an teacher.

Three days into the Ashulia bank robbery that left eight people dead, police arrested two “militants” for their alleged involvement with the deadly incident.

Social media restrictions are being lifted in Turkey, as sites comply with a court order to stop sharing images of a prosecutor being held at gunpoint.

THE arrest of Ariful Islam, caught after he, along with his accomplices, hacked to death Oyasiqur Rahman Babu, has by default, brought to light some significant inefficiencies in law enforcement.

The United States has expressed utter astonishment at the murder of independent writer Oyasiqur Rahman.

Iran-allied Houthi militiamen pushed into the northeastern outskirts of the Yemeni port city of Aden on Monday amid heavy clashes with loyalists of President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi

The news that Pakistan security forces killed 30 militants in gun battles in the mountainous northwestern Khyber region on Saturday, is being denied by a spokesman for the militants.

Authorities and Taliban spokeman say that the Pakistani Taliban killed five police officers in a rocket attack in country's southwest on Friday. In another incident of a Taliban attack, on a police bus in Pakistan's largest city of Karachi left 10 people wounded.

A US drone strike kills at least nine Pakistani militants in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province

Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali says he does not know anything about the two Bangladeshi nationals who have allegedly been abducted in Libya by a militant group linked to the ISIS

ANY direction you cast your gaze you encounter violence in myriad forms; situated in racial, religious, ethnic, or class conflict zones.