Ansar Al Islam

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Hosne Ara Karim, whose son and daughter-in-law were rescued from the restaurant that was attacked by heavily armed militants, wait for them in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Photograph: AP
Bangladesh attack: Locals responsible for killing 20

Seven militants who killed 20 people at a restaurant in Dhaka were local Bangladeshis and authorities had tried before to arrest five of them, police(...)

A relative consoles the children of Mahmuda Khanam Mitu, the wife of a police superintendent who had been cracking down on militant attacks, after she was stabbed and shot to death by militants while taking her son to school in Chittagong, Bangladesh, last Sunday. Photograph: EPA/STR
Bangladesh says it now knows who’s killing the bloggers

The young man, inching past a crowded checkpoint near a truck stand in Dhaka, Bangladesh’s capital, caught the attention of an alert police officer. H(...)

Bangladeshi Muslims carry the body of Xulhaz Mannan for his funeral in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Tuesday. A group affiliated to al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for the killings of gay rights activist Mannan and his friend. Photograph: AP
Al-Qaeda affiliate claims murder of Bangladeshi gay rights activist

A group affiliated to al-Qaeda has claimed responsibility for killing a Bangladeshi gay rights campaigner and his friend, the latest in a string of m(...)

Mullah Krekar went to Norway as a refugee in 1991 and had earlier been deemed a threat to national security. Norwegian authorities did not expel him to Iraq because authorities there could not guarantee he would not be executed. Italy said it would now seek to extradite him. File photograph: Olav Nesvold/NTB scanpix
Over a dozen suspected Islamist militants held across Europe
  • Europe
  • November 12, 2015, 15:32

Police in six European countries arrested at least 15 suspected members of an Islamist militant group that was planning attacks in Norway and the Midd(...)