Contents: Iraq declares 3 days of national mourning after massive Baghdad bombing; Iraq orders police to stop using bogus ‘bomb detectors’; Former ambassador Jim Moriarty describes the dancing people of Bangladesh
Friends and family have begun to identify the men Islamic State media say were responsible for the lethal attack on an upscale cafe in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday. The men, they say, came from wealthy families and were highly educated before disappearing to join the international jihad.
18-year-old University of California Berkeley student Tarishi Jain was among over 20 people murdered Friday when Islamic fundamentalists shot and brutally hacked to death bakery patrons and police officers in the diplomatic district of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina issued a statement following the murder of twenty people, mostly foreign nationals, at the hands of Islamic State-affiliated jihadis Friday insisting that “Islam is a religion of peace” and jihadists are “tarnishing” the faith.
Contents: Bangladesh tries to recover from Dhaka terror attack, the worst in 40 years; Suspicions that Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency supported the Dhaka attack
DHAKA, Bangladesh — The cook was crouching in a washroom, taking refuge from the gunmen who had invaded the Holey Artisan Bakery, when he understood that there was a logic behind the killing: The people in the restaurant were being sorted.
At least three American students have been identified among 20 people killed during an ISIS attack on a cafe in Bangladesh yesterday.
The U.S. Department of State deemed al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) a “foreign terrorist organization” (FTO) and its leader Asim Umar a “specially designated global terrorist” the day before the attack in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Contents: Politicians commemorate the botched World War I Battle of the Somme; The Battle of the Somme and infant mortality; Bangladesh again shocked by major ongoing terrorist attack
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — The hostages were given a test: recite verses from the Quran, or be punished, according to a witness. Those who passed were allowed to eat. Those who failed were slain.
A hostage situation has developed at the Holey Artisan Bakery in Dhaka, Bangladesh. A group of heavily-armed gunmen has taken about twenty hostages, after killing at least one police officer in a battle fought with guns and grenades.
Police in Bangladesh arrested over 8,000 people this week in connection to a wave of hacking murders by radical Islamists, targeting secular bloggers, professors, and LGBT advocates.
Contents: Bangladesh government arrests 3,192 people to stop terrorist killings; History of Bangladesh’s ‘BNP-Jamaat clique’ goes back to massive 1971 ethnic war
The head of Bangladesh’s police counterterrorism unit tells the New York Times that among the greatest challenges facing law enforcement in containing the ongoing wave of Islamist murders of secular, LGBT, or anti-Islamist bloggers and public figures is the fact that the public supports them.
70-year-old Hindu priest Anando Gopal Ganguly was riding his bicycle to a temple on Tuesday morning in the Jhenaidah district of Bangladesh when three men on motorbikes shot him then slashed him with bladed weapons, nearly decapitating him. His body was found in a field near the temple.
Bangladesh has been in the grips of a hideous spate of assassinations and attacks on secularist intellectuals, academics and non-Muslims and others in the crosshairs of Islamist militants.
Contents: Violent terror attack on Kazakhstan blamed on Islamic militants; Islamist militants in Bangladesh kill police officer’s wife in revenge
A high school teacher in Bangladesh has been suspended from his position after an angry mob demanded that he be kept away from his students, alleging that he had “liked” a Facebook comment critical of Islam using a pseudonymous account.
Police in Bangladesh have arrested four members of the jihadist group Jumatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) suspected of hacking an English professor to death.
Violent protests broke out in Bangladesh after Islamist party leader Motiur Rahman Nizami was hanged on war crime charges, including genocide, rape, and torture linked to the 1971 war of independence from Pakistan.
Thousands of police were deployed Wednesday in Bangladesh after the main Islamist party’s leader was executed for war crimes, in a country reeling from a string of killings of secular and liberal activists. Jamaat-e-Islami party president Motiur Rahman Nizami was
On the anniversary of the thwarted jihadi attack on her “Mohammed Art Exhibit and Contest” in Garland, Texas, Pamela Geller was a guest of Breitbart News Daily with SiriusXM host Stephen K. Bannon.
Unidentified attackers hurled crude bombs at the home of a Christian family in Bangladesh on Tuesday leaving two people injured, police said, amid rising attacks on religious minorities in the Muslim-majority nation. The attackers targeted the home just after midnight
The gay rights activists hacked to death in Bangladesh this week never sought police protection despite numerous death threats because they feared police backlash as much as a terrorist assault, friends claim.
The Ansar al-Islam, the Bangladesh branch of the al-Qaeda in Indian Sub-Continent (AQIS), has claimed responsibility for the death of at least three secular writers hacked to death in the past year, including the murder this week of the editor of an LGBT magazine.
Attackers have killed three more people in Bangladesh, including the editor of the country’s only LGBT magazine.
Contents: Europe goes on charm offensive with Turkey on migrant deal; Bangladesh in shock after university professor hacked to death; FBI offers to help investigate Bangladesh murders
Dhaka (AFP) – Unidentified attackers hacked to death a university professor in Bangladesh on Saturday, police said, adding that the assault bore the hallmarks of previous killings by Islamist militants of secular and atheist activists. Police said English professor Rezaul
The latest issue of Islamic State magazine Dabiq features two pieces calling for more jihadists activities in Bangladesh, where a string of lynching of secular bloggers indicate popular support for Sharia law may be increasing.
In Bangladesh, men attacked and hacked to death liberal blogger Nazimuddin Samad, 26, with machetes on Monday night.
Contents: Russia declared ‘Mission complete’ in Syria and withdrew, but the war rages on; Bangladesh’s Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) terror group targets ‘atheist bloggers’
The head of the National Border Patrol Council says a breach in the fence along a ten-mile area in remote areas of the Mexico-Arizona border should cause concern about terrorist threats.
Bangladesh authorities have confirmed they found the Zika virus in a blood sample from an elderly man who did not leave the country.
Contents: Italy debates military intervention in Libya after ISIS kills Italian hostages; Looking back at the 2011 ‘Arab Spring’ Libya military intervention; Russian media calls Gaddafi’s Libya an ‘oasis of stability’; Police in Turkey use force to shut down opposition newspaper
After a recent spate of killings of members of religious minorities by Islamic extremists, the supreme court of Bangladesh has begun hearing arguments challenging Islam’s privileged status as official state religion, a measure applauded by religious liberty activists and minority
Contents: Bangladesh covers up Tibetan art after China threat; Desperate China official rapidly selling of foreign currency reserves; Monday’s stock market plunge blamed on China and on weak earnings; Hong Kong experiences worst violence in years
The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for a series of brutal terrorist attacks in Bangladesh, and is said to be intensifying its effort to recruit from the country’s huge Sunni Muslim population. Despite these developments, the Bangladeshi government continues to insist ISIS has no significant presence in their country.
Contents: Decaying stadiums from 2004 Athens Olympics have new lives housing migrants; Greece transports migrants from Macedonian border back to Athens; Migrants blocked from Macedonia face difficult choices
The Islamic State’s affiliate in Bangladesh claimed responsibility for an attack on a Shiite mosque that killed one person and injured three others.
Contents: Migrants blocked at Macedonian border sew their mouths shut; Ukraine suspends all commercial trade with occupied Crimea; Ukraine and Russia in tit-for-tat escalating sanctions; Steel and other commodity prices continue to plummet
