Avijit Roy, a Bangladeshi-American blogger and writer, was killed in Bangladesh on Thursday. Roy and his wife Rafida Ahmed Banna, also a blogger, were invited to a book fair at Dhaka University. While returning from the same book fair, two attackers stopped their rickshaw near the Teacher-Student Centre of the University around 9:30 pm. The…… Read More
Police in Bangladesh said they raided a militant hideout Tuesday and killed nine suspected jihadists who appeared to be affiliated with a group that carried out an attack on an upscale cafe in Dhaka that left 22 people dead earlier this month. Photo: Getty Images Subscribe to the WSJ channel here: http://bit.ly/14Q81Xy More from the…… Read More
WATCH NOW: Embedded with Al-Qaeda in Syria – http://bit.ly/2ynOxnn The Islamic State, a hardline Sunni jihadist group that formerly had ties to al Qaeda, has conquered large swathes of Iraq and Syria. Previously known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the group has announced its intention to reestablish the caliphate and has…… Read More