Bangladesh Police

Bangladesh suicide attack: Woman and teenage boy blow up during police raid in Dhaka

A woman and a teenage boy on Saturday blew themselves up in the national capital when Bangladesh police's elite counter-terrorism unit raided their three-storey building where heavily-armed militants, belonging to an Islamist group blamed for the deadly cafe attack, were hiding.

Bangladesh police arm villagers against Islamist militants

Police in western Bangladesh said Wednesday they have armed villagers with bamboo sticks and whistles in an effort to deter Islamist militants from attacking people of minority faiths.

Bangladesh cracks down on Islamist militants, 3 killed in deadly gunfight

Three Islamist militants were killed Tuesday in gunfights with police as authorities launched a nationwide crackdown on extremists blamed for a series of murders of minorities

Insult after injury: After Niloy's murder, Bangladeshi cop warns bloggers to observe 'limit'

The Bangladesh Police have asked the country's secular bloggers not to "cross the limit" while writing on religious issues, days after blogger Niloy's killing.

Bangladesh: Islamists, police clash; seven dead

At least seven people were killed on Monday in clashes in Bangladesh between police and hardline Islamists demanding reforms that critics say would amount to the "Talibanisation" of a country that maintains secularism as state policy.