Sylhet court frames charges against 13 people including fugitive accused Kamrul Islam for the brutal killing of 13-year-old Rajon.

An exhibition about the day in the life of a spot in Abu Dhabi - a small square boasting a supermarket and a single tree opened in New York city.

Students seeking retake of medical and dental college admission tests continue demonstration in Dhaka. They allege question paper leak into the exams that were held last Friday.

Hundreds of thousands of Muslims from across the globe begin the annual hajj pilgrimage in one of the largest annual gatherings of people in the world.

Iran yesterday said it recently collected samples at a military site where illicit nuclear work is alleged to have occurred and handed them

A growing number of "disillusioned" Islamic State fighters are defecting from the jihadist group and could be used by governments to

With more than two decades of trying to secure an independent Palestinian state through negotiations at a hopeless dead end, the ageing

At least 53 Taliban militants have been killed in military operations in 15 provinces of Afghanistan, the defence ministry said yesterday. "The Afghan Army

The United Nations is coming under fire for handing Saudi Arabia a key human rights role even though the Kingdom has “arguably the worst record in the world” on freedoms for women, minorities and dissidents.

Seventy-five Syrian rebels trained to fight jihadists under a beleaguered US programme have crossed from Turkey into northern Syria, a US-backed rebel faction and a monitoring group said yesterday.

Criminals snatched four arrested drug addicts from law enforcers after injuring three policemen at Machpotti in Alangi Bazar area under

None of the robbers, who looted over Tk 21 lakh from a branch of Agrani Bank in Jessore early Friday, has been arrested, police said.

Al-Qaeda's Syria affiliate and its Islamist allies have executed at least 56 regime troops at a military airport they recently seized in the

Air raids by Saudi-led coalition warplanes killed 15 people in Yemen's capital in one of the heaviest nights of bombardment in months,

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi kept his finance, investment and interior ministers in a new government sworn in yesterday as he

At least 55 militants were killed when Turkish warplanes hit Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) camps in northern Iraq overnight, security

BNP says transit or transhipment fee at Tk 580 per tonne for Indian goods carrying through Bangladesh is not acceptable.

Syrian government war planes have launched one of the heaviest bombardments yet on the city of Palmyra, which is held by Islamic State (IS) militants, activists say.

Militants attacked Tripoli's airport yesterday and killed three security personnel, a Libyan official said, in an assault claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group.

The United States and Russia renewed high-level contacts between their militaries on Friday to discuss how to deal with the war in Syria. US Secretary of Defense Ash Carter and Russia's Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu spoke by telephone, spokesmen from their ministries said.