DHAKA: US President Barack Obama is to send 250 additional military personnel to Syria to support local militias in the fight against so-called Islamic State (IS).   According to officials, the goal is to encourage more Sunni Arabs to join Kurdish fighters in north-eastern Syria,

DHAKA: More than 800 members of Al-Qaeda were killed in a military offensive against the group in the south of Yemen, the Saudi-led Arab coalition operating in the country said on Monday.   Quoting coalition commanders the official Saudi news agency SPA published the news, reports

DHAKA: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has hailed a submarine-launched ballistic missile test as an ‘eye-opening success’, declaring Pyongyang has the ability to strike Seoul and the US whenever it pleases. North Korea the state media said, Al Jazeera publishes this report on

DHAKA: The solar-powered aeroplane Solar Impulse has completed a three-day flight over the Pacific Ocean. It flew over San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge on Saturday evening as it prepared to land in California, the BBC publishes this report on Sunday. The plane took off from

DHAKA: Veteran Thai politician and former premier Banharn Silpa-archa died Saturday at the age of 83, a Bangkok hospital said. “Banharn Silpa-archa passed away peacefully,” said a statement from Siriraj hospital, where he was admitted with asthma on Thursday. Born to a

DHAKA: At least 24 people have died after a leak caused a deadly petrochemical oil plant blast, in the latest fatal incident in Mexico. So far 136 people were injured at that massive explosion leaving 13 of them critically wounded. Another 18 people were unaccounted for, and one

DHAKA: Donald Trump has promised to change his image, in a closed-door meeting with Republican party leaders. The businessman, who leads the party’s race to be presidential nominee, delivered his message via aides. Quoting the Associated Press news agency, BBC reports the matter.

DHAKA: In an unprecedented move, Pakistan Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif dismissed 12 army officers, including a three-star general, from service over alleged corruption on Thursday. A major general, lieutenant colonel, five brigadiers and a major are among those dismissed

DHAKA: Ethiopia's army has enclosed the area in South Sudan where more than 100 abducted Ethiopian children are being detained. The children were taken in a cross-border raid in the Gambella region last Friday, in which 208 people died, BBC reported Thursday (April 21). The

DHAKA: A drug-trafficking tunnel nearly half a mile long was exposed by federal agents, on Wednesday. The drug-trafficking tunnel was discovered underneath the California-Mexico border. Two tons of cocaine and seven tons of marijuana, worth nearly $22 million, were seized by federal

DHAKA: Islamic State (IS) terrorists are plotting to carry out biological and nuclear attack on Europe warned NATO security experts on Wednesday according to reports by the Telegraph. NATO security chiefs told participants of the Security and Counter Terror Conference in London that

DHAKA: A large explosion at an oil facility in the south-east Mexican state of Veracruz has killed at least three people and injured over 100. The blast hit a facility owned by Mexico’s state oil company, Pemex, in the port city of Coatzacoalcos, reports the BBC. Hundreds of

DHAKA: Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik has won part of a human rights case against the Norwegian state. The court upheld his claim that some of his treatment amounted to ‘inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment’, reports the BBC. After the judgment,

DHAKA: Seven Pakistani policemen, three of whom were guarding polio workers, have been killed in Karachi, officials say. Eight gunmen on motorcycles fired at a group of three guards and later at a van containing four officers, officials told the Pakistan Tribune, reports the BBC.

DHAKA: The death toll from a huge explosion in the centre of the Afghan capital Kabul on Tuesday has more than doubled to 64 people. The government says, reports the BBC. Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqqi tweeted that 64 ‘innocent Afghans’ were killed and 347 wounded.

DHAKA: The death toll of Ecuador earthquake has cross 500 and 231 people are still missing. The government put the death toll at 507 late on Tuesday, of whom 499 have been identified, according to the Attorney General’s office, reports Al Jazeera. Yet, officials expected more

DHAKA: At least 50 were killed including children in deadly air strikes on two markets in rebel-held northwestern province. The strikes were among the deadliest since a ceasefire took effect in Syria at the end of February, Rami Abdurrahman, chief of the UK-based Syrian Observatory for

DHAKA: U.S. President Barack Obama is beginning a visit to Saudi Arabia at a time of strained relations between the US and Gulf countries. As well as meeting King Salman, he will sit with leaders from Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, reports the BBC. US Defence Secretary

DHAKA: Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton has won in the presidential nominating contest in New York on Tuesday, blunting the momentum of rival Brooklyn-born Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and taking a big step toward wrapping up the nomination. The victory for Clinton in one of

DHAKA: At least 413 people are now known to have died in the earthquake that struck Ecuador. Quoting the country’s government officials, BBC reports the matter. The 7.8-magnitude quake struck Ecuador’s Pacific coast on Saturday, and the search for survivors continues. The