Saudi Arabia allegedly offered $10 billion to secure the release of ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, according to documents released last week by WikiLeaks.

Kurdish-led forces in Syria seized a town from Islamic State yesterday after capturing a military base overnight, aided by US-led air strikes in some of the most dramatic gains yet against the militants.

Twenty fishermen were rescued yesterday, hours after two trawlers capsized in the Bay during a storm in Barguna district.

Both Israel and Palestinian militants may have committed war crimes during last year's Gaza war, a widely anticipated United Nations

The flamboyant wife of Israeli Interior Minister Silvan Shalom published an "inappropriate joke" Sunday about US President Barack Obama

Tweets and YouTube videos by fighters from the Islamic State group have allowed analysts to pinpoint their movements in Iraq and Syria, highlighting the group's increasing push towards government strongholds.

A son of Osama Bin Laden reportedly asked the US for a death certificate for his father, according to the whistle-blowing website, Wikileaks.

Al-Qaeda in North Africa has denied reports its former leader Mokhtar Belmokhtar was killed in a US air strike last week in Libya, in a

Ballistic reports confirm bullets that killed two people in Dhaka were fired from Ruling Awami League MP's son Rony, police say.

Thirty-seven more Bangladeshi trafficking victims, who are rescued by Myanmar navy on May 21, returned to the country.

The UN has closed the last remaining shelter for Palestinians displaced in last summer's war in Gaza, a spokesman said yesterday, with families seeking temporary accommodation elsewhere.

Islamic State said on Thursday it had shot down an Iraqi fighter plane north of the city of Ramadi in Anbar Province.

A suspected arson attack damaged a revered Christian shrine in northern Israel overnight, and police detained 16 young Jewish settlers for questioning yesterday.

A Dhaka court adjourns till July 23 hearing on Zia Orphanage and Zia Charitable Trust corruption cases against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia.

Detectives arrest man in Paltan area of Dhaka on charges of instigating people’s religious sentiment through his posts in social media platform.

An Egyptian court yesterday upheld a death sentence against ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi for plotting jailbreaks and attacks on police during the 2011 uprising.

UN chief Ban Ki-moon yesterday called for an immediate two-week humanitarian pause in Yemen to mark Ramadan as high stakes talks got underway in Geneva to try and end the bloody conflict.

Seventeen people were killed in Iraq yesterday in clashes between Islamic State militants and pro-government forces in Baiji close to the country's biggest refinery, a focal point in efforts to counter the ultra-hardline Sunni group.

Bakhtiar Alam Rony shot down two people in Dhaka riding out his lawmaker mother’s car with the sticker of a parliament member, police say.

Twenty-five people were killed and 29 others injured yesterday in two separate road accidents in Egypt, where poor road and traffic regulations kill thousands each year,