Syrian government troops are advancing on "nearly every front" thanks to Russian air strikes that began in September, President Bashar

Israeli forces Saturday raided and shut down a Palestinian radio station accused of incitement in the West Bank city of Hebron, the army said, in the second such case this month.

IS is “aggressively pursuing the development of chemical weapons”, creating a team dedicated to research and experiments, according to Iraqi and US intelligence officials.

A Saudi Arabian court has sentenced a Palestinian poet to death for apostasy, abandoning his Muslim faith, according to trial documents seen by Human Rights Watch, its Middle East researcher Adam Coogle said yesterday.

Police arrested Maulana Abdul Momen Sherjahan, president of the district unit of Islami Okya Jote (IOJ), from Sholakia Bazar on Tuesday night.

Iran has begun dismantling parts of its nuclear programme, as agreed under July's landmark deal with major powers, a UN atomic watchdog report showed yesterday.

The Islamic State jihadist group yesterday said it has killed a Chinese and a Norwegian hostage, two months after it had demanded a ransom for the pair's release.

BNP is yet to give any reaction on the Supreme Court’s verdict upholding death penalty for its standing committee member Salauddin Quader Chowdhury for crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War.

The mass probe body formed over alleged question leak of medical and dental admission tests reports to have found proof of leak.

Strikes by the US-led air coalition fighting the Islamic State group destroyed 116 fuel trucks used by the jihadist organisation in eastern Syria, the Pentagon said yesterday.

Australia's immigration minister rejects a call by an MP to close its borders to refugees from the Middle East, in the wake of the Paris attacks

In video footage obtained by Ma'an news agency, Israeli officials have been captured on film hurling abuse at a 13-year-old Palestinian child accused of stabbing two Israelis in East Jerusalem last month during the child's interrogation.

The head of the Islamic State group in Libya was killed in an air strike overnight, the Pentagon announced yesterday.

At least 41people have been killed and more than 180 wounded after twin suicide bombings claimed by Islamic State militants rocked a stronghold of Lebanon's Shia Hezbollah movement in south Beirut, officials said.

At least 24 rebels were killed yesterday in Saudi-led coalition air strikes and attacks by pro-government forces in Yemen's south, military sources said. Around

Regional level Bishwa Ijtema of Tablig Jamaat began at Jessore New Town field yesterday. Devotees have already gathered at the venue to

UNDP in collaboration with BRTC launches a pilot project which will allow your smartphone mobile app to tell you how long it will take to travel to your destination using GPS.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on a visit to Washington, on Tuesday voiced pessimism about the prospect of peace with the Palestinians, suggesting the current stalemate was likely to remain in place.

A Russian document circulating at the United Nations has proposed a constitutional reform process in Syria, lasting 18 months, to be followed by presidential elections.

A Jordanian policeman yesterday shot dead two US instructors and a South African before being gunned down at a police training centre