DHAKA: Five people were killed in stabbing attack in a house early Monday in the western Japanese city of Sumoto in Japan.Police said a 40-year-old unemployed man was arrested for allegedly attacking the victims in a house, reports the BBC.Japanese media have named the attacker as

DHAAK: Islamic State militants have destroyed ruins at the ancient city of Hatra, Iraqi officials say.A tourism and antiquities ministry official said the extent of the damage at the Unesco world heritage site was unclear, but he had received reports that it had been demolished.Hatra was

DHAKA: It has become known for horrific images of beheadings and torture, but the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria group is trying to lure foreign recruits to its ‘caliphate’ with promises of adventure, homes, jobs - even love.Using sophisticated recruitment techniques, the

DHAKA: The leaders of China and North Korea will meet when it is convenient for them.China’s foreign minister said on Sunday, calling China’s isolated neighboring country a friend, reports The Straits Times.North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has yet to visit China, his country’s only

DHAKA: Police has registered 300 FIRs of rape in the first two months of this year in Delhi, capital of India. This indicates that on an average, five rape cases are lodged every day in the city. Last year, the number of FIRs filed stood at 2,069, reports the Times of India.If

DHAKA: Nigerian militant group Boko Haram has pledged allegiance to Islamic State (IS), according to an audio statement.The message, which has not been verified, was posted on Boko Haram's Twitter account and is believed to be by the group's leader, Abubakar Shekau.Boko Haram began a

DHAKA: At least four Chinese feminists have been detained ahead of International Women’s Day, a lawyer said Saturday, in what appears to be a move by Beijing to head off public protest linked to the holiday.Li Tingting, a young activist best known for staging demonstrations in

DHAKA: Pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine claimed Saturday to have completed their withdrawal of heavy weapons, in line with a February ceasefire deal.‘Today is the last day of the weapons withdrawal,’ Edouard Bassourine, one of the rebel leaders told reporters in the town of

DHAKA: Three bombings rocked separate targets in northeast Nigeria’s largest city of Maiduguri on Saturday, killing at least 33 people, witnesses and a local official told the media, in violence blamed on Boko Haram.The first attack was carried out by a female suicide bomber at the

DHAKA: Truckers in Assam on Saturday stopped plying their vehicles from here to Dimapur and other parts of Nagaland in protest against the lynching of a rape accused in Nagaland’s commercial hub Dimapur on Thursday.At least 17 truckers' bodies in Assam said on Saturday that the

DHAKA: The military chief and several top commanders of the Al Qaida-affiliated Al Nusra Front have been reported killed in northwestern Syria, where the militia has been making major gains in recent months.Syrian state media, a monitoring group and a local activist reported that Abu

DHAKA: Two men have been arrested over the murder of Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov.The head of the Federal Security Service (FSB) has announced, reports the BBC.Anzor Gubashev and Zaur Dadayev were detained on Saturday, FSB director Alexander Bortnikov said, speaking on

DHAKA: Pakistani marine forces have arrested 45 Indian fishermen for violating territorial waters in the Arabian Sea.Police said on Saturday, reports The Straits Times.Pakistan’s Maritime Security Agency (MSA) detained the fishermen on Friday after they strayed into Pakistani waters,

DHAKA: Five people have been killed in a machine-gun and grenade attack on a nightclub in Mali’s capital Bamako. A BBC correspondent at the scene said a French national was shot dead at the bar. Two Malian men were killed as the gunmen fled the scene. A Belgian man died when a grenade

DHAKA: Iraqi forces have pushed Islamic State (IS) fighters out of the western town of al-Baghdadi, the US military says. The town, which was taken over by IS last month, is about 8km (5 miles) from a base housing hundreds of US troops who are training Iraqi soldiers. Iraqi forces moved

DHAKA: Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's ruling PML-N has won 18 out of the 48 seats being contested for in the Senate elections marred by controversies and allegations of vote buying.According to unofficial results, PML-N got the lion’s share in the polls, winning 18 seats

DHAKA: The military chief of Syria's al-Nusra Front militant group has been killed in an air strike, the group has said.The jihadist group said on social media that three other leaders were killed along with Abu Homam al-Shami.Syria's state-run news agency said the army had targeted Nusra

DHAKA: Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters have used a bulldozer to start destroying a 3,000-year-old Assyrian city near Mosul in Iraq.The archaeologists and other sources have told Al Jazeera.The demolition at Nimrud on Thursday comes less than a week after video was

DHAKA: The military chief of Syria’s al-Nusra Front militant group has been killed in an air strike, the group has said.The jihadist group said on social media that three other leaders were killed along with Abu Homam al-Shami.Syria’s state-run news agency said the army had targeted

DHAKA: Suspected Boko Haram militants have killed at least 64 people in a village in Borno state in north-east Nigeria.The witnesses have said which reports the BBC.The gunmen who stormed Njaba targeted men and boys before setting the village on fire, survivors added.The raid happened