Islamist militants

Pakistan earlier this year submitted a report about the progress it had made in curbing terrorist financing. Photo: AP

Pakistan given 3-month reprieve over terrorist financing watchlist

1 min read . 21 Feb 2018

Pakistani security officials inspect the site of a powerful explosion that targeted a police vehicle in Quetta, capital of southern Balochistan province, on Friday. Photo: AFP

62 killed in multiple blasts and firing in three Pakistan cities

4 min read . 24 Jun 2017

A member of the police special forces stands guard at a deserted intersection in Marawi on the southern island of Mindanao on Sunday. Photo: AFP

Islamist militants kill 19 in battle with security forces in Philippines’ Marawi

2 min read . 28 May 2017

Bangladesh Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel stand alert at the entrance to a military camp in Dhaka on 17 March 2017, after an attempted suicide bomb attack. Photo: AFP

Bangladesh police kill suspected militant armed with explosives

1 min read . 18 Mar 2017

Soldiers and people gather at the site of an attack by a suicide bomber who drove a car laden with explosives into a compound run by local militias in the southern port city of Aden, Yemen. Photo: Fawaz Salman/Reuters<br />

Suicide bomber kills 54 in Yemen attack: Health ministry

2 min read . 29 Aug 2016

A file photo of Bangladeshi security forces near the Holey Artisan restaurant after Islamist militants attacked the upscale cafe in Dhaka, Bangladesh in July 2016. Photo: Reuters<br />

Dhaka cafe attack mastermind, 3 others killed in Bangladesh

1 min read . 27 Aug 2016

A file photo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani in Herat. Photo: PTI<br />

Afghanistan pushes India for more arms, despite Pakistan’s wary eye

4 min read . 23 Aug 2016

Foreign ministry spokesman Vikas Swarup says security presence at the Ramakrishna Mission complex in Dhaka has been strengthened. Photo: AFP <br />

India takes up alleged death threat to Ramakrishna Mission priest with Bangladesh

1 min read . 18 Jun 2016

About 20 members of Hindu Sena held the festivities as Americans grieved over the deaths of 49 people in the country’s worst-ever mass shooting. Photo: Ramesh Pathania/Mint<br />

Hindu Sena celebrates ‘saviour’ Donald Trump’s 70th birthday

1 min read . 14 Jun 2016

Some of Pakistan’s fleet of F-16 jets are due to be decommissioned in the next few years and the govt says it needs the aircraft to fight Islamist militants in remote mountains near Afghanistan. Photo: Bloomberg<br />

Pakistan, spurned by US, considers offer of Jordanian F-16 jets

2 min read . 14 Jun 2016

A man holds a portrait of Bangladeshi professor Rezaul Karim Siddique, who was hacked to death by unidentified attackers, in Rajshahi on 23 April. Photo: AFP<br />

Bangladesh professor hacked to death by Islamist militants

1 min read . 23 Apr 2016

A file photo of United Nations headquarters in New York City. Photo: AFP<br />

Gunmen attack UN base in northern Mali, leaving 3 people dead

1 min read . 28 Nov 2015

Putin says the incident was one of the bloodiest acts in modern Russian history and ordered the Russian air force to intensify its air strikes in Syria in response. Photo: Reuters<br />

Russia confirms bomb downed its plane over Egypt, vows retribution

1 min read . 17 Nov 2015

A file photo of Malian soldiers. Photo: AFP<br />

Mali hotel siege ends, hostages freed

1 min read . 08 Aug 2015

Afghan security forces inspect the suicide attack site near a new Kabul Bank in Jalalabad, Afghanistan on Saturday. Photo: AP<br />

Afghanistan suicide blast kills 33, injures more than 100

2 min read . 18 Apr 2015

Thousands of people wave national flags and hold placards that read ‘I am Charlie’ at the Place de la Nation in Paris on Sunday. Photo: AP<br />

Lack of top-level US official at Paris march raises some eyebrows at home

2 min read . 12 Jan 2015

James Foley was on assignment for GlobalPost, an online news startup with about 28 full-time staffers that is trying to survive as a small, independent outlet. Photo: AP<br />

James Foley’s execution reveals the changing business of war coverage

4 min read . 22 Aug 2014

Oil remained underpinned by tension in hotspots such as Libya and eastern Ukraine despite ample supply of crude and oil products globally. Photo: Bloomberg<br />

Brent slips below $108 as Mideast tension cools on Gaza lul

1 min read . 28 Jul 2014

The sixty three women were among 91 people kidnapped in attacks on the villages of Kumanza, Yaga and Dagu in June. Photo: Reuters<br />

63 Nigerian women escape Boko Haram after abductions

1 min read . 07 Jul 2014

Chief of defence staff Air Marshal Alex Badeh said on Tuesday the military knew where the abducted girls were but ruled out a rescue by force for fear of endangering them. Photo: Reuters<br />

Nigeria orders full scale offensive on Boko Haram

2 min read . 29 May 2014