Bin Laden’s friend arrested in Bangladesh

Counterterrorism

Bin Laden’s friend arrested in Bangladesh

Staff Reporter Law enforcing agencies in Bangladesh, working on a tip-off had arrested a man named Atiqullah Asadullah alias Zulfiqar, who was a friend of Al Qaeda kingpin Osama Bin

Lasting grip of global terrorist Dawood Ibrahim in South Africa

Caryn Dolley Men suspected of planning assassinations in their native India were traced to South Africa in 2016 – but where are they now and where are the police? Testimony

Terror group member arrested in the Philippines

News Desk Joint police and military operatives have arrested a suspected member of the Dawlah Islamiyah in a raid in his house in Batangas City, Friday. Brig. Gen. Edward Carranza,

Big security issues in Mindanao province in the Philippines

Marichu A. Villanueva The initial success in setting into motion the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) is facing yet another potential peace spoiler. The creation of the BARMM

United States supports Bangladesh government’s efforts to promote peace and security

News Desk United States funds $1.2 million initiative to improve monitoring of detainees in justice system Ambassador Miller, together with Bangladeshi Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan and UN Resident Coordinator Mia

United States and Bangladesh cosponsor financial crimes workshop

News Desk The workshop provided law enforcement and prosecutors with tools to combat financial crimes The U.S. Embassy cosponsored a financial crimes workshop with the Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU)

Another terrorist gets early prison release

IPT News Judith Clark, a member of the Weather Underground who was serving a 75-year to life prison sentence for her role in a 1981 robbery that left two police

Sri Lanka pawn and South Asia’s burning chessboard

While the heinous count of victims is still on the way in Sri Lanka as well as new attempts to spread terror, we can make a framework assessment to put

Sri Lanka jihadist attack fact sheet

News Desk – 207 people killed, mostly locals and at least 32 foreigners – 450 wounded – Eight blasts in all, most suspected to be suicide attacks, in Colombo, Negombo

How Qatar’s Al Jazeera provided platform to Osama Bin Laden

In 2017, United Arab Emirate’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs sent a letter to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on Qatar’s Al Jazeera’s persistent promotion of extremist ideologies.