Bangladesh Islamic Militants

Police in Bangladesh said on Tuesday they had arrested the IT chief of a banned militant Islamist group that has been blamed for the killing of several secular bloggers and gay rights activists.

Bangladeshi security forces killed four Islamist militants, including the mastermind of an attack on a cafe in Dhaka last month in which 22 people, mostly foreigners, were killed, the head of police counter-terrorism in the capital said on Saturday.

The terrorists who had mowed down 20 people in Dhaka on Friday, had uploaded the pictures of their victims on Internet which were used by the terrorists of Islamic State of Syria and Iraq to claim responsibility and get attention, a top official of Bangladesh has told NDTV.

The terrorists who launched Friday's attack on a Dhaka restaurant, slaughtering 20 hostages, were members of a homegrown Bangladeshi militant group and not followers of the Islamic State of Syria and Iraq, a senior minister of Bangladesh has said.

When Bangladeshi blogger and social activist Ashif Entaz Rabi hosted a TV talk show about a slaying of a publisher by Islamic extremists, he faced a torrent of threatening phone calls. He says young men with earpieces started loitering outside his workplace, and a militant website urged followers to "send this Ashif to Allah."

There is no place for militancy and terrorism in Islam, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina asserted today as she sought cooperation from Muslim scholars to clamp down on those engaged in terror acts in the name of Islam.

A series of blasts killed at least one person and wounded dozens as Shia Muslims gathered for a procession in the old part of Bangladesh's capital early today to mark the holy day of Ashura, police said.

Police in Bangladesh have arrested six suspected militants, including the chief of the outlawed Jamaat-ul Mujahideen group, as authorities stiffen a crackdown on hardline Islamists.

Bangladesh police said Thursday they had arrested 12 suspected militants including the local head of Al-Qaeda's branch in the region, foiling an attack planned for the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.

Bangladesh police said today they have arrested a photo-journalist over the murder of an atheist blogger hacked to death last month by a masked gang wielding machetes.

The wife of a US blogger who was killed by suspected Islamic militants while visiting Bangladesh said on Wednesday that she had suffered brain injuries during the attack and called on Dhaka authorities to "pursue a thorough investigation."

A Bangladesh court today sentenced to death two Islamic militants for gunning down a police informant eight years ago, a prosecutor said.

A Muslim convert from London was today arrested in Bangladesh on suspicion of recruiting British volunteers to fight for Islamic State (IS) militants, becoming the sixth person to be detained in past four days under an intensified security vigil against the dreaded group.

Police in Bangladesh said on Tuesday they had arrested the IT chief of a banned militant Islamist group that has been blamed for the killing of several secular bloggers and gay rights activists.

Bangladeshi security forces killed four Islamist militants, including the mastermind of an attack on a cafe in Dhaka last month in which 22 people, mostly foreigners, were killed, the head of police counter-terrorism in the capital said on Saturday.

The terrorists who had mowed down 20 people in Dhaka on Friday, had uploaded the pictures of their victims on Internet which were used by the terrorists of Islamic State of Syria and Iraq to claim responsibility and get attention, a top official of Bangladesh has told NDTV.

The terrorists who launched Friday's attack on a Dhaka restaurant, slaughtering 20 hostages, were members of a homegrown Bangladeshi militant group and not followers of the Islamic State of Syria and Iraq, a senior minister of Bangladesh has said.

When Bangladeshi blogger and social activist Ashif Entaz Rabi hosted a TV talk show about a slaying of a publisher by Islamic extremists, he faced a torrent of threatening phone calls. He says young men with earpieces started loitering outside his workplace, and a militant website urged followers to "send this Ashif to Allah."

There is no place for militancy and terrorism in Islam, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina asserted today as she sought cooperation from Muslim scholars to clamp down on those engaged in terror acts in the name of Islam.

A series of blasts killed at least one person and wounded dozens as Shia Muslims gathered for a procession in the old part of Bangladesh's capital early today to mark the holy day of Ashura, police said.

Police in Bangladesh have arrested six suspected militants, including the chief of the outlawed Jamaat-ul Mujahideen group, as authorities stiffen a crackdown on hardline Islamists.

Bangladesh police said Thursday they had arrested 12 suspected militants including the local head of Al-Qaeda's branch in the region, foiling an attack planned for the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.

Bangladesh police said today they have arrested a photo-journalist over the murder of an atheist blogger hacked to death last month by a masked gang wielding machetes.

The wife of a US blogger who was killed by suspected Islamic militants while visiting Bangladesh said on Wednesday that she had suffered brain injuries during the attack and called on Dhaka authorities to "pursue a thorough investigation."

A Bangladesh court today sentenced to death two Islamic militants for gunning down a police informant eight years ago, a prosecutor said.

A Muslim convert from London was today arrested in Bangladesh on suspicion of recruiting British volunteers to fight for Islamic State (IS) militants, becoming the sixth person to be detained in past four days under an intensified security vigil against the dreaded group.