DHAKA: Authorities in China’s far-flung western region of Xinjiang have detained 380 people and busted 32 terror cells in a month-long crackdown on violence. China state media said on Monday, following an upsurge in attacks blamed on Islamist militants, reports The Straits Times.

DHAKA: An Egypt court will deliver verdicts in the case of three al-Jazeera journalists detained since December. Peter Greste, Mohammed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed are accused of spreading false news and supporting the Muslim Brotherhood. They deny the charges. The case has caused an

DHAKA: The Israeli military said it had attacked nine targets in Syria in response to the killing of a 15-year-old boy in a strike in the occupied Golan Heights on the border between the two countries on Sunday.    The air strikes targeted Syrian army positions, including a military

DHAKA: Over 100 ulema from various schools of thought declared on Sunday Zarb-i-Azb, the military operation being carried out against terrorists and militants in North Waziristan Agency, as jihad.  The decree (fatwa) was issued after a meeting of religious scholars which was organized

DHAKA: The Israeli military said it had attacked nine targets in Syria in response to the killing of a 15-year-old boy in a strike in the occupied Golan Heights on the border between the two countries on Sunday.     The air strikes targeted Syrian army positions, including a military

DHAKA: The Iraqi government appears to have lost control of its western borders after Sunni militants reportedly captured crossings to Syria and Jordan.     Officials said the rebels took two key crossings in Anbar on Sunday, a day after seizing one at Qaim, a town in the province that

DHAKA: The British army has a global reputation for efficiency and performance, but new figures published on Sunday suggest that its soldiers might be getting a little soft. More than 32,000 soldiers failed a basic fitness test at some point in the past three years, and more than 22,000

DHAKA: Most Spaniards want their new king, Felipe, to play a greater role in politics and build bridges between the country’s divided parties and regions. A poll showed on Sunday, reports The Straits Times. Spain’s monarchy has tried stay out of the intricacies of factional

DHAKA: Iraqi forces have made a ‘tactical’ withdrawal from three western towns, a security spokesman said on Sunday, as Sunni militants widened an offensive that has already overrun swathes of territory. ‘The military units’ withdrawal (from Al-Qaim, Rawa and Ana) was for the

DHAKA: Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei expressed strong opposition on Sunday to US intervention in Iraq, saying Iraqis themselves were able to bring an end to the violence there. Iran’s official IRNA news agency reported, says The Jerusalem Post. Khamenei, who has the

DHAKA: Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant on Sunday restarted its trouble-plagued water decontamination system for the first time in three months. The utility said, reports The Straits Times. Tokyo Electric Power Co. (Tepco) has been forced to repeatedly switch off its Advanced

DHAKA: Some 350,000 people have been displaced since the start of an army offensive against militants in Pakistan’s North Waziristan a week ago. Officials say, reports the BBC. Long lines of buses and lorries are reported waiting in intense heat for security clearance to enter the

DHAKA: Sunni militants have seized another town in Iraq's western Anbar province, the fourth in two days. Fighters of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isis) captured Rutba, 90 miles east of Jordan’s border, officials said. They earlier seized a border crossing to Syria and

DHAKA: United States Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Egypt on Sunday on a surprise trip, becoming the highest-ranking US official to visit since president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi came to power.Kerry was to meet Sisi during his lightning trip to press the former army chief, who

DHAKA: The Queen has treated Prince William to an early birthday present – a luxury £8m helicopter. The chopper, a 2008 Augusta A109S Grand, will be used to ferry William and his wife Kate between official royal engagements. The Duke of Cambridge, who turns 32 tomorrow, is a

DHAKA: Khalil al-Haya, a senior Hamas official spoke during a funeral for five member of the organization, saying Hamas and its military wing, the al-Qassam brigades, will continue to dig tunnels and make rockets, even cross the ocean, ‘until we defeat our enemy’. The official added

DHAKA: At least 43 people have died in opposition protests against Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro that began in February. A non-government group has said after a student died from a bullet wound, reports The Times of India. Alfredo Romero, who heads the Penal Forum group, said

DHAKA: A strategic border crossing and three other towns in western Iraq fell Saturday to the control of ISIS militants, a senior Iraqi security official said. In addition to their offensives in northern Iraq, the militants have now strengthened their hand in the western province of

DHAKA: India prime minister Narendra Modi, once denied a visa to enter the United States over massacres of Muslims, is expected to receive the honour of addressing a joint session of the US Congress during a visit to Washington in September. California Republican Ed Royce, chairman of

DHAKA: A South Korean conscript soldier shot and killed five of his fellow unit members and injured five others late on Saturday at a guard post near the heavily armed border with North Korea. A South Korean official said, reports The Straits Times. The exact circumstances of the