A team from Myanmar’s Independent Commission of Enquiry (ICOE) has arrived in Cox’s Bazar to interview 150 to 200 Rohingya refugees.

The Muslim convert dubbed “Jihadi Jack”, who is being held in northern Syria after joining the Islamic State group, on Monday said that Britain’s decision to revoke his citizenship was “not something I recognise.”

Ten more witnesses, including four doctors, yesterday testified before a special court in the capital in the Holey Artisan attack case.

More than a dozen soldiers died on Monday during a “major attack” by “terrorist armed groups” in northern Burkina Faso, the army said.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo expressed frustration Monday over the “very unfortunate” decision to release an Iranian tanker held off Gibraltar, in an implicit rebuke to ally Britain.

A military court in Cameroon yesterday handed a life sentence to the head of the country’s anglophone separatist movement, Julius Sisiku Ayuk Tabe, and nine of his followers, lawyers said.

Separatists surrounded two government military bases in Yemen’s south and demanded elements inside surrender, sources on both sides said yesterday, ten days after the secessionists seized defacto capital Aden.

Indonesian authorities were hunting for more than 250 inmates who escaped a Papua prison set ablaze during violent riots, officials said yesterday, as fresh protests broke out in the restive region.

China’s government has unveiled plans to boost the mainland city of Shenzhen and make it into what state media called a “better place” than neighbouring Hong Kong, following another huge pro-democracy rally in the semi-autonomous financial hub.

Afghanistan’s ambassador to Spain was mugged at the weekend in Barcelona, police and diplomatic sources said yesterday, the latest in a string of high-profile crimes in the city.

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday arrested the land owner of Banani FR Tower SMHI Faruque in two separate cases filed over his alleged involvement in illegally extending the building.

Donald Trump has warned China that carrying out a Tiananmen Square-style crackdown on Hong Kong pro-democracy protests would harm trade talks between the two countries, in comments that followed a huge, defiant march through the streets of the global finance hub.

Railway police recovered the body of an 18-year-old girl from the toilet of an abandoned carriage at Kamalapur Railway Station yesterday morning.

Ducsu Vice-president Nurul Haque Nur yesterday alleged that he and activists of his organisation face the wrath of the ruling party men frequently for protesting their wrongdoings.

US President Donald Trump on Monday spoke with India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urging a reduction of tension between India and Pakistan over the disputed Kashmir region.

The High Court yesterday wanted to know in details about a briefing by Barguna SP on Minni’s confessional statement in the case filed over the murder of her husband.

Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar last night said Bangladesh and India have many things to discuss to take the relationship between the two countries to a higher level.

Despite different initiatives, most of the paddy farmers in Sunamganj are not benefitting from the government’s ongoing food procurement programme allegedly because of the actions of middlemen and lack of monitoring.

Syrian regime forces entered a key northwestern town on Sunday amid intense fighting with jihadists and their rebel allies which has left dozens of combatants dead, a war monitor said.

An Afghanistan peace agreement that the US seems close to reaching with the Taliban has prompted worries that President Donald Trump’s desire to quickly withdraw US troops could further plunge the country into civil war.