Jamayetul Mujahideen Bangladesh

Bangladesh police said Tuesday they had killed the chief of Jamayetul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), an extremist group accused of murdering secular activists and inspiring a cafe siege that killed 22 people.

A prominent Bangladeshi lawyer who fought the state's case in a high-profile murder trial against Islamist extremists has disappeared, police said Sunday, with grave fears for his safety.

Bangladesh police said Friday they had arrested the "spiritual leader" of a banned Islamist outfit alleged to have carried out a series of deadly attacks in the country.

An Islamist extremist accused of being one of the masterminds of last year's deadly siege at a Bangladeshi cafe was killed during a pre-dawn raid Friday in the capital Dhaka, police said.

Five people linked to the Islamist extremist group behind July's Dhaka cafe siege that left 22 hostages, most of them foreigners, dead have been arrested, Bangladesh police said Thursday.

Security was tightened in a Bangladesh southern city on Sunday ahead of the expected execution of a senior Islamist extremist whose group has been linked to the murder of foreign hostages, police said.

Bangladesh's elite security force said today it had arrested a top regional head of the home-grown Islamist extremist group blamed for an attack on a Dhaka cafe in which 20 hostages were murdered.

Bangladesh police shot and killed a top terrorist who was the main suspect behind deadly bomb blasts at a Shia shrine during late-night raids, officers said today.

A police officer was stabbed to death in Bangladesh today and another badly injured in the second such attack in less than a month, blamed by the home minister on hardline Islamists.

An explosives expert from a banned Islamist group was killed in Bangladesh today when he detonated a device while security forces searched for weapons in one of the group's hideouts, police said.

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

Bangladesh police said Tuesday they had killed the chief of Jamayetul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), an extremist group accused of murdering secular activists and inspiring a cafe siege that killed 22 people.

A prominent Bangladeshi lawyer who fought the state's case in a high-profile murder trial against Islamist extremists has disappeared, police said Sunday, with grave fears for his safety.

Bangladesh police said Friday they had arrested the "spiritual leader" of a banned Islamist outfit alleged to have carried out a series of deadly attacks in the country.

An Islamist extremist accused of being one of the masterminds of last year's deadly siege at a Bangladeshi cafe was killed during a pre-dawn raid Friday in the capital Dhaka, police said.

Five people linked to the Islamist extremist group behind July's Dhaka cafe siege that left 22 hostages, most of them foreigners, dead have been arrested, Bangladesh police said Thursday.

Security was tightened in a Bangladesh southern city on Sunday ahead of the expected execution of a senior Islamist extremist whose group has been linked to the murder of foreign hostages, police said.

Bangladesh's elite security force said today it had arrested a top regional head of the home-grown Islamist extremist group blamed for an attack on a Dhaka cafe in which 20 hostages were murdered.

Bangladesh police shot and killed a top terrorist who was the main suspect behind deadly bomb blasts at a Shia shrine during late-night raids, officers said today.

A police officer was stabbed to death in Bangladesh today and another badly injured in the second such attack in less than a month, blamed by the home minister on hardline Islamists.

An explosives expert from a banned Islamist group was killed in Bangladesh today when he detonated a device while security forces searched for weapons in one of the group's hideouts, police said.

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