DHAKA: The United States condemned Sunday a ‘horrifying’ massacre by militants said to have killed hundreds of Iraqi Shia air force recruits in the northern city of Tikrit, urging the country to unite. Fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have overrun a

DHAKA: Israeli troops arrested Palestinian parliament speaker and Hamas member Aziz Dweik overnight during a wave of arrests linked to a massive manhunt for three kidnapped teenagers. The military said on Monday, reports The Straits Times. In a statement, the army said it had arrested

DHAKA: Relatives of those who went missing on Malaysia flight MH370 have marked 100 days since the plane vanished. Chinese families said they would pray for the return of their loved ones, adding that they just wanted to know the truth of how the jet disappeared. The authorities

DHAKA: At least 120 suspected militants were killed in North Waziristan tribal region during the 'Zarb-e-Azb' operation where as several compounds were also destroyed. A day ago, the Pakistan Army launched a comprehensive operation against foreign and local terrorists who were hiding in

DHAKA: The Sunni extremist group that has taken territory across Iraq has posted photos online that appear to show its fighters massacring Iraqi soldiers. The army personnel are pictured being led away and then lying in trenches before and after their "execution". Iraqi military

DHAKA: Juan Manuel Santos has won re-election in Colombia's most dramatic presidential contest in years.   Santos won nearly 51% of votes and saw off his right-wing challenger Oscar Ivan Zuluaga, who had 45%, says BBC.   The victory will be seen as an endorsement of the president's

DHAKA: A suicide bomb blast in central Baghdad on Sunday killed at least nine people and injured 20. Police and medical sources said, reports The Jerusalem Post. The suicide blast, which police said was carried out by an attacker wearing an explosive vest near Tahrir Square in the

DHAKA: Two senior Hamas officials have been missing since Thursday. Israel Radio reported Sunday, says The Jerusalem Post. Security forces were investigating a possible connection to the kidnapping. BDST: 2138 HRS, JUNE 15, 2014

DHAKA: Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accused the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas of kidnapping three Israeli teenagers. The students went missing on Thursday near an Israeli settlement in the West Bank on their way back from lessons. Hamas has denied it was involved

DHAKA: Iraqi government forces, backed by Shia Muslim and Kurdish militias, are reportedly holding back an advance by Sunni militants north of Baghdad. A number of towns have been retaken from the rebels, but they still control the key cities of Tikrit and Mosul. Reports speak of heavy

DHAKA: Ukraine’s president promised a tough response on Saturday to pro-Russian separatists who shot down an army transport plane, killing 49 servicemen and dealing a blow to a military campaign to crush their uprising. Newly installed Petro Poroshenko summoned security chiefs for

DHAKA: Nelson Mandela’s widow was treated badly by members of his family as the peace icon was fighting for his life in hospital, excerpts from a memoir by his long-time aide have revealed. In a book likely to ruffle some feathers within the large Mandela family, Zelda la Grange,

DHAKA: German foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier warned Sunday that the bloody conflict in Iraq could quickly spin into a regional ‘proxy war’. Steinmeier, speaking to the Welt am Sonntag newspaper, called on Turkey, the Gulf Arab states and Iran to do their part to stabilise

DHAKA: Underscoring that the new political leaderships would be business-oriented, Indian envoy to Bangladesh Pankaj Saran has hinted that the Narendra Modi government will be committed to not only maintaining friendly ties with Dhaka but also building a ‘momentum of the

DHAKA: A roadside bomb killed 11 people including five election workers in northern Afghanistan, officials said Sunday, as a prolonged vote count began after the presidential run-off election. Election officials were sifting through fraud complaints from both candidates, and analysts

DHAKA: More than 110,000 Cambodians have fled Thailand to return home in the past week, an official said Sunday, amid fears of a crackdown on migrant workers after last month’s military takeover.Labourers from Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar play a key role in Thai industries such as

DHAKA: US president Obama described himself as a “fun dad” who “teeters on the edge of being embarrassing sometimes,” reports New York Times on Monday. While the comment probably elicited a few eye-rolls from his daughters, Sasha and Malia, there are plenty of other fathers out

DHAKA: Iran warned on Sunday that ‘any foreign military intervention in Iraq’ would only complicate the crisis, after the US said it was deploying a warship in the Gulf. ‘Iraq has the capacity and necessary preparations for the fight against terrorism and extremism,’ foreign

DHAKA: Millions of Afghans have cast their votes in a presidential run-off to elect a successor to Hamid Karzai, who has been in office since 2001. Taliban militants, who had threatened to disrupt the vote, launched low-level attacks in which at least 46 people were killed across the

DHAKA: The 2003 invasion of Iraq is not to blame for the violent insurgency now gripping the country, former UK prime minister Tony Blair has said. Speaking to the BBC’s Andrew Marr, he said there would still be a ‘major problem’ in the country even without the toppling of Saddam