In one of the most audacious individual espionage operations ever, Eli Cohen, an Egyptian-born Jewish accounting clerk, was recruited by Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, trained intensively as a field agent for six months and given a new identity as an Arab businessman in South America. In 1962, he was deployed as a spy to Damascus…… Read More
On The Listening Post this week: protests in Dhaka are about more than road safety, but the government will not let that message air. Plus, how the late Tom Wolfe inspires journalists today. Speaking the unspeakable in Bangladesh It is rare for traffic accidents to result in international headlines. But that is what happened in…… Read More
A court in Bangladesh has just sentenced seven people to death for one of the worst attacks in the country’s history. Twenty-two people died in the siege on the Holey Artisan cafe in the capital Dhaka in 2016. Nearly all the victims were foreigners. An eighth person has been acquitted. Al Jazeera’s Tanvir Chowdhury joins…… Read More
The UN’s Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion has visited Bangladesh to look into the recent murders of four writers who had been labelled atheists by conservative religious groups. But atheists are not the only minority group in Bangladesh facing problems. In Tangail, a 120-year-old Hindu temple was burned down at this site. Worshippers now…… Read More
Armed men in Pakistan have targetted the Sri Lanka cricket team on their way to a test match in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore. At least six Pakistani police officers were killed in the attack and several cricketers wounded. Al Jazeera’s Harry Fawcett reports. At Al Jazeera English, we focus on people and events…… Read More
Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe A nationwide strike triggered by the disappearance of Ilyas Ali, an opposition politician, has brought much of Bangladesh to a standstill. At least two people were reportedly killed, hundreds were injured and scores were detained after clashes between police and protesters on Monday, who are demanding government action over the…… Read More
Last week, the body of a Filipina woman was found in a freezer in an abandoned apartment in Kuwait. It turned out to be Joanna Demafelis; she had gone to Kuwait to work as a maid, hoping to earn enough to support her family. Joanna’s body has arrived in Manila, greeted by her distraught family.…… Read More
ISIL and the Taliban – Featured Documentary Raising its black flag over the rugged mountainous regions of Afghanistan, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has emerged as a new threat to the war-ravaged country as it battles the Taliban for supremacy. Raising its black flag over the rugged mountainous regions of Afghanistan,…… Read More
In January 2018, seven-year-old Zainab Ansari was raped and murdered. Her body was discovered on a rubbish heap in Kasur, Pakistan’s “child abuse capital”, sparking national outrage that reverberated across the world. Zainab’s father, Amin, channelled his grief into a fight for justice and demanded systemic change. Two years later, the government of Pakistan passed…… Read More
Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit exposes the global scale of match-fixing in cricket. Our undercover investigation reveals how criminal gangs bribe players and officials to fix matches and parts of matches – and make millions from betting on guaranteed outcomes. In secretly filmed meetings, we expose criminals who target the fast-growing Twenty20 tournaments and Test matches,…… Read More
AJ’s Investigative Unit has uncovered corruption in the Maldives. Secretly filmed interviews describe how men on mopeds carried millions in cash to the Maldives’ political elite. President Abdulla Yameen and his former deputy, Ahmed Adeeb, are accused of receiving cash in bags filled with up to $1m, so much that it was “difficult to carry,”…… Read More
Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe The volatile political crisis in Bangladesh has once again boiled over into violence on the streets of the capital, Dhaka. Several people belonging to country’s largest Islamic party, Jamaat-e-Islami, were injured as they clashed with police demanding halt to the country’s war crimes trials. Many Jamaat leaders are under trial…… Read More