Syed Zain Al-Mahmood

Young Officers in Bangladesh’s Army Persuaded Chiefs to Back Protesters

Thousands of Rohingya refugees are pouring from Myanmar into Bangladesh with stories of atrocities, fleeing what is emerging as the world’s newest guerrilla war.

Thousands of men, women and children from Myanmar’s Rohingya minority have fled the country what the army is calling a crackdown on insurgents. Here’s a short history of the Rohingya people.

Philippine authorities returned $15 million of $81 million stolen from Bangladesh’s account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in a February cyberheist, the first time the South Asian country has been able to retrieve any of the stolen money.

Bangladesh executed Mir Quasem Ali, a senior Islamist politician, who was convicted of committing crimes against humanity during the country’s war of independence in 1971.

Bangladeshi police said Tuesday they raided a militant hideout in Dhaka, killing nine suspected jihadists believed to be planning an assault similar to a deadly attack on a cafe earlier this month.

When assailants armed with guns and explosives stormed an upscale cafe in the Bangladeshi capital Friday, it represented a sharp escalation by extremist followers of Islamic State in South Asia, a region where the terror group had previously gained little traction.

Bangladesh’s efforts to curb the rise of Islamist militants have been undermined by a long-toxic political atmosphere that continued after Friday’s deadly attack on a cafe.

The terrorists who stormed a cafe in Bangladesh were mostly from affluent families and educated in private schools. They ended up swayed by a radical ideology that drove them to take the lives of strangers.

Three students attending U.S. universities were among victims of a terrorist attack at a cafe in Bangladesh on Friday, as were several Italians in the garment industry and Japanese aid workers.