DHAKA: In the 14 years since the 9/11 attacks, the face of terrorism has changed out of recognition. To many experts, the threat of Islamist terror is in some ways greater and in some ways diminished. It is geographically more diverse and organizationally more divided, and leverages

DHAKA: Twelve of 13 men accused of planting bombs on Mumbai's local trains that killed 189 people nine years ago, have been convicted. They will be sentenced on Monday next. One man has been acquitted, reports NDTV. Here is your 10-point cheat-sheet to this big story: Seven blasts had

DHAKA: At least 30 people have died in clashes in the Turkish city of Cizre since a military operation began there last week, Turkey's interior ministry says.The ministry says most of the dead were Kurdish militants but the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) says 20 civilians

DHAKA: Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov has confirmed that the country’s ‘humanitarian’ flights to Syria carry military equipment as well as humanitarian aid - after the US and NATO warned Moscow over its involvement in the Syrian conflict.‘Russian planes are sending to

DHAKA: Scientists have discovered a new human-like species in a burial chamber deep in a cave system in South Africa.The discovery of 15 partial skeletons is the largest single discovery of its type in Africa, reports the BBC.The researchers claim that the discovery will change ideas

DHAKA: The Indian government has covered up hundreds of cases of human rights abuses, including extrajudicial killings, torture and enforced disappearances in the disputed territory of Kashmir.A new report has alleged, Al Jazeera publishes this report on Thursday.Jammu Kashmir Coalition

DHAKA: The US and Nato have expressed concern over reports that Russia is increasing its military presence in Syria.Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg said if confirmed, Russia’s involvement would not help to solve the conflict.Separately on Wednesday, US Secretary of State John Kerry

DHAKA: Hungary's army has begun exercises to prepare for a possible future role in guarding the southern border to try to stem the influx of migrants.Budapest plans to send soldiers to help police at the border where thousands of migrants arrive from Serbia every day, reports BBC.A new

DHAKA: The head of the pro-Kurdish opposition HDP has accused the ruling AKP of orchestrating nationalist attacks and pushing Turkey towards civil war.No-one has been killed, but Selahattin Demirtas said ‘we are facing a campaign of lynching’, reports the BBC.Violence between the army

DHAKA: Myanmar President Thein Sein has made his first public appearance since the start of a campaign for November 8 general elections, meeting leaders of ethnic armed groups for ceasefire talks.At the opening of the talks in the capital Naypyitaw on Wednesday, Thein Sein stressed the

DHAKA: Queen Elizabeth II becomes Britain’s longest-reigning monarch later when she passes the record set by her great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria.The Queen will have reigned for 63 years and seven months - calculated at 23,226 days, 16 hours and approximately 30 minutes at about

DHAKA: A crowd has attacked the headquarters of Turkey’s pro-Kurdish HDP party, amid rising violence between Turkish forces and the militant Kurdish PKK group.Pictures from the scene appeared to show the HDP building in the capital, Ankara, on fire.Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has

DHAKA: Australia has said it will take in more Syrian refugees, amid pressure to do more to help people displaced by violence in the Middle East.Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Wednesday said Australia would accept 12,000 Syrian refugees from persecuted minorities.That is on top of the

DHAKA: A British Airways plane bound for London has caught fire at Las Vegas airport, forcing the evacuation of 172 people on board on emergency slides.McCarran International airport tweeted that seven people "received medical treatment for minor injuries", reports BBC.US Federal Aviation

DHAKA: Turkish ground forces have crossed into Iraq in pursuit of Kurdish militants for the first time since a ceasefire two years ago.Government officials said the incursion was a ‘short-term’ measure to hunt down PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) rebels.Turkish warplanes also

DHAKA: Iraq’s acting deputy Justice Minister, Abdul Karim al-Faris, has been kidnapped by unknown gunmen in the capital, Baghdad.Iraq security officials have told Al Jazeera.The deputy minister’s security guards and driver have also been kidnapped in Al-Bunouk neighborhood in the

DHAKA: There was a time when Aung San Suu Kyi was seen as Asia’s Nelson Mandela. To her more ardent fans, she was more than that, an icon, almost a saint.So why is the Nobel Peace Prize winner’s political party excluding Muslims from its list of candidates for November’s general

DHAKA: At least 14 policemen have been killed after a police bus was hit by an improvised explosive device (IED) laid on a road by outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants in the eastern Turkish province of Iğdır.Doğan News Agency reported on September 8 that the bus was

DHAKA: At least 10 police officers have been killed and several others wounded in a bomb attack on a Turkish police minibus in the country’s east.Turkish officials blamed fighters from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) for Tuesday’s attack, which targeted a bus carrying police

DHAKA: Iran’s president has said his country is ready to hold talks with the United States and Saudi Arabia on ways to resolve the Syrian civil war.Shia powerhouse Iran is a leading patron of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and accuses Sunni rival Saudi Arabia and the US of siding with