Criminals snatched four arrested drug addicts from law enforcers after injuring three policemen at Machpotti in Alangi Bazar area under

At least 53 Taliban militants have been killed in military operations in 15 provinces of Afghanistan, the defence ministry said yesterday. "The Afghan Army

The United Nations is coming under fire for handing Saudi Arabia a key human rights role even though the Kingdom has “arguably the worst record in the world” on freedoms for women, minorities and dissidents.

Seventy-five Syrian rebels trained to fight jihadists under a beleaguered US programme have crossed from Turkey into northern Syria, a US-backed rebel faction and a monitoring group said yesterday.

None of the robbers, who looted over Tk 21 lakh from a branch of Agrani Bank in Jessore early Friday, has been arrested, police said.

Al-Qaeda's Syria affiliate and its Islamist allies have executed at least 56 regime troops at a military airport they recently seized in the

Air raids by Saudi-led coalition warplanes killed 15 people in Yemen's capital in one of the heaviest nights of bombardment in months,

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi kept his finance, investment and interior ministers in a new government sworn in yesterday as he

At least 55 militants were killed when Turkish warplanes hit Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) camps in northern Iraq overnight, security

BNP says transit or transhipment fee at Tk 580 per tonne for Indian goods carrying through Bangladesh is not acceptable.

Syrian government war planes have launched one of the heaviest bombardments yet on the city of Palmyra, which is held by Islamic State (IS) militants, activists say.

Militants attacked Tripoli's airport yesterday and killed three security personnel, a Libyan official said, in an assault claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group.

The United States and Russia renewed high-level contacts between their militaries on Friday to discuss how to deal with the war in Syria. US Secretary of Defense Ash Carter and Russia's Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu spoke by telephone, spokesmen from their ministries said.

Law enforcers detain eight alleged robbers in Jatrabari of Dhaka last night.

A Saudi diplomat accused of raping two Nepali women hired to work as domestic help has left India under diplomatic immunity, the foreign ministry says.

About 1,000 Asian pilgrims were evacuated early yesterday from their hotel in the Saudi city of Mecca, hit by a fire that injured two people, the civil defence agency said.

US President Barack Obama will host Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on November 9 -- their first meeting after a deep row over

Bombings in the Iraqi capital claimed by the Islamic State group killed at least 14 people and wounded 55 yesterday, security and medical officials said. The

The by-election to Tangail-4 constituency will be held on November 10 instead of October 28.

Police recovered the decomposed body of a woman, who went missing ten days ago, from a bush at Prodhanpara Shalmara village in Sadar