24 June 2016; by Siegfried O. Wolf
Earlier this month, Bangladesh’s security forces carried out a nationwide crackdown on radical Islamists in the country. The main part of the campaign ran over several days and included interventions by thousands of police and paramilitary personal, led to the arrest of more than 11,300 people.
26 January 2016
Against the persistently recurrent official statements that Bangladesh has no links with internationally acting terrorist organisations like Islamic State (IS) or al-Qaeda, there are more and more indications how deeply the Islamic fundamentalists of the South Asian country are involved in the “world of the global jihad”. Continue reading “From Dhaka to Singapore: The Growing Involvement of Bangladesh in the “World of Global Jihad””