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The Iranian flag flutters in front the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) headquarters in Vienna, Austria on 4 March, 2021

Iran hangs extremist accused of murdering Shiite clerics

Iran on Monday hanged a Sunni extremist who was sentenced to death for killing two Shiite clerics and wounding another in early April, the judiciary said

Late Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is seen in an undated picture released by the US Department of Defence in Washington, US on 30 October 2019

New Islamic State leader is brother of slain caliph Baghdadi

Islamic State in its current form emerged from the chaos of the civil war in neighbouring Syria last decade and took over vast swathes of Iraq and Syria in 2014

Militant Zia was a bigot: Father

Militant Zia was a bigot: Father

The US state department declared million US dollars for information about him on 20 December. The Bangladesh government, however, declared Tk 2 million for tracing Zia in 2016.

Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny takes part in a rally to mark the 5th anniversary of opposition politician Boris Nemtsov's murder and to protest against proposed amendments to the country's constitution, in Moscow, Russia, 29 February 2020.

Russia adds Navalny to 'terrorists and extremists' list

Russia on Tuesday added jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny to a list of "terrorists and extremists", as authorities continue a clampdown on the opposition

Iranian human rights campaigner Narges Mohammadi

Iran rights defender sentenced to 8 years jail, flogging

An Iranian court has sentenced leading human rights campaigner Narges Mohammadi to eight years in prison and over 70 lashes, her husband announced on Sunday, following her sudden arrest in November ...

Smoke is seen on the Myanmar border as Rohingya refugees walk on the shore after crossing the Bangladesh-Myanmar border by boat through the Bay of Bengal, in Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh on 11 September 2017

Rohingya sue Facebook for $150bn over hate speech

The legal complaint argues that Facebook’s algorithms drive susceptible users to join ever-more extreme groups, a situation that is “open to exploitation by autocratic politicians and regimes”

Afghan resistance movement and anti-Taliban uprising forces take part in a military training at Malimah area of Dara district in Panjshir province on 2 September 2021 as the valley remains the last major holdout of anti-Taliban forces

Afghanistan Almost 600 Taliban killed by Resistance forces: Spokesman

Fighters of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan, which opposes the rule of the Taliban, claimed to have killed about 600 Taliban combatants in the northern Afghan region of Panjshir

At least 24 leaders and activists, including AL women affairs secretary and late president Zillur Rahman's wife Ivy Rahman, were killed and 300 others injured in the grenade attack on 21 August 2004

21 August grenade attack 17th anniversary of grisly attack being marked

On this day in 2004, the grisly grenade attack was carried out on an anti-terrorism rally organised by Awami League at Bangabandhu Avenue in the capital city during the BNP-Jamaat alliance rule

Taliban men with arms

Return of the Taliban: Police see causes for concern in the long run

There are apprehensions of extremist outfits in Bangladesh rearing their heads with the takeover of state power by the Taliban

Afrasiab Khattak

Afghanistan Taliban’s Legitimacy Crises

Despite Mujahid’s soft and articulate tone the journalists covering the press conference were conscious of the presence of gun-toting Taliban surrounding the building and couldn’t ask difficult ...

People arriving from Afghanistan make their way at the Friendship Gate crossing point at the Pakistan-Afghanistan border town of Chaman, Pakistan on 17 August 2021

Afghanistan US strength and role is destruction, not construction: China

Beijing has signalled its readiness to cooperate with the Taliban after the United States’ withdrawal

Dhaka Metropolitan Police commissioner Shafiqul Islam talks to media on 20 July 2021

Extremists ready to attack during Eid, police on alert: DMP commissioner

The bombs that the law enforcement recovered were very powerful. There could have been a massacre if those had exploded. That means their efficiency has increased, said DMP commissioner Shafiqul Islam

Former Mujahideen hold weapons to support Afghan forces in their fight against Taliban, on the outskirts of Herat province, Afghanistan on 10 July 2021

Air defences installed at Kabul airport as Taliban gain ground

Interior ministry spokesman Tariq Arian said the defences had been installed at the airport, though officials did not offer details about the type of system or who had installed it

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and his daughter Daria meet with journalists outside a polling station during the Moscow city parliament election in Moscow, Russia on 8 September 2019

Russian court brands Navalny political organisations ‘extremist’

The ruling could spell the end for Navalny’s anti-corruption organisation, which had shone a light on graft at the highest levels, and his network of political offices that had bolstered his reach to ...

Taslima Nasrin

Jofra Archer hits back at Taslima after contentious tweet on Moeen Ali

After Nasreen tweeted that England all-rounder Moeen Ali would have become an ISIS terrorist in Syria had he not stuck to cricket, Archer responded with the tweet

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