Smuggling gangs with suspected Russian links tried to sell nuclear material to Islamic extremists from ISIS, an investigation has found. In the backwaters of Moldova, authorities working with the FBI interrupted four attempts in the past five years by the gangs that sought to sell radioactive material to Middle Eastern extremists, The Associated Press news agency learned. The latest known case came in February this year, when a smuggler offered a huge cache of deadly cesium — enough to contaminate several city blocks — and specifically sought a buyer from ISIS.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) arrested a Myanmar national with 1.5 lakh Yaba tablets in No 1 Sluice Gate area of the Naf

Medical charity MSF yesterday demanded an international probe into a deadly US air strike on an Afghan hospital, after reports said Nato's top regional

Iraqi forces have retaken several areas north and west of Ramadi as efforts to close in on the Anbar provincial capital seized by jihadists in May intensify, officials said yesterday.

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei yesterday banned any further negotiations between Iran and the United States, putting the brakes on moderates hoping to end Iran's isolation after reaching a nuclear deal with world powers in July.

One AP investigation uncovered an attempt to sell bomb-grade uranium to a real buyer from the Middle East, the first known case of its kind.

At least 10 shops have been erected, allegedly by a local union parishad (UP) member and his men, by grabbing government land at Dhashgram haat under Buruil union in Nandigram upazila of the district in the last few days.

US forces attacked a hospital in northern Afghanistan last weekend, killing at least 22 people, despite "rigorous" US military procedures designed to avoid such mistakes, the top commander of US and allied forces in Afghanistan said yesterday.

Turkey has warned the EU that millions more refugees could flee Syria as the civil war intensifies, European Council President Donald Tusk has said.

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said yesterday he wanted to avoid a violent escalation with Israel, his most direct comments since unrest has spread in recent days and provoked fears of a new uprising.

Two people are hurt as a abandoned crude bomb went off in Ataikula of Pabna.

At least 63 people have been killed in a series of car bomb attacks in Iraq , police and medical sources say.

Islamic State militants in northern Syria have blown up another monument in the ancient city of Palmyra, officials and local sources say.

Turkey warned Russia yesterday against violations of its airspace by warplanes straying over the border from Syria, as Nato called an emergency meeting over the "unacceptable" intrusion.

Fresh clashes erupted yesterday in the West Bank and Israel's military shot dead a 13-year-old Palestinian boy after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged a crackdown following attacks that killed four Israelis.

Rab arrests eight alleged members of an international human trafficking gang in Dhaka last night and recovers a large number of fake visas and visa-making equipment from their possessions.

US President Barack Obama has promised a full investigation into an apparent US air strike on an Afghan hospital that killed 19 people, a bombing which the UN said could amount to a war crime.

Two Egyptian policemen have been shot dead in the bastion of the Islamic State group in the Sinai Peninsula, the interior ministry said, in an attack claimed by

A panel of Iranian lawmakers said yesterday that the inspections regime underpinning the country's nuclear deal with world powers represented a security

Israel took the rare and drastic step of barring Palestinians from Jerusalem's Old City yesterday as tensions mounted following attacks that killed two Israelis and wounded a child.