Six killed as Syria security forces launch sweep in Homs province
Six people were killed on Tuesday in Syria鈥檚 central Homs province, a war monitor said, as security forces launched a sweep of the area....
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Indian forces kill 14 Maoists including top commander
Indian security forces shot dead at least 14 Maoist rebels, including a top commander, on Tuesday in what the interior minister said was one of the heaviest bouts of recent fighting...
Armed Forces reform commission demanded
Retired military officers, politicians and journalists on Saturday demanded forming an independent Armed Forces Reform Commission to ensure overall professionalism, dignity and justice in the Armed forces...
JULY UPRISING PROCLAMATION: Political parties suggest draft committee
Political parties on Thursday urged the interim government to form a committee to prepare the text of the July uprising proclamation on the basis of a consensus through detailed discussion with all anti-fascist forces...
Armed forces鈥� magistracy power extended for 60 days in Bangladesh
The magistracy power of officers from the Army, Navy and Air Force have been extended for another 60 days which will come into effect from Tuesday aiming to maintain law and order across the country.
Maoists kill nine Indian troops
Indian Maoist guerrillas killed nine members of the security forces on Monday by detonating a roadside bomb that tossed their vehicle into the air, police said...
Ex-fisheries minister Abdul Latif Biswas arrested
Joint forces in a drive on Sunday afternoon arrested ousted Awami League government former fisheries and livestock minister Abdul Latif Biswas at his residence at Belkuchi upazila in Sirajganj.
Syria launches security sweep in Homs city
Syrian security forces are conducting a security sweep in the city of Homs, state media reported on Thursday, with a monitor saying targets include protest organisers from the Alawite minority of the former president...
A new set of wolves?
THERE is a good side to the story. After a politically influential group 鈥榲isits鈥� a TV station asking the top brass to 鈥榯ake appropriate action鈥� against journalists whose reporting they dislike, the matter is now being debated. There is no DGFI [Directorate General of Forces Intelligence] involved. No guns are on display. No false cases have been filed. No one...
Sacked servicemen hold sit-in, demand jobs back聽
Several hundred former armed forces members who were sacked or forced to retire by the now ousted Awami League regime on Sunday held a sit-in near Shaheed Jahangir Gate...
28 killed in shelling of Khartoum fuel station
A Sudanese network of volunteer rescuers said that 28 civilians were killed Sunday when a fuel station in an area of Khartoum under paramilitary control came under shelling...
Peacekeeping force should be sent to India: Jahangir
Home adviser lieutenant general (retired) Jahangir Alam Chowdhury on Thursday suggested that peacekeeping forces be sent to India instead of Bangladesh...
Syrian forces launch counterattack against Islamist-led rebels
Syrian government forces launched a counterattack against Islamist-led rebels around the key city of Hama on Wednesday after suffering a string of staggering losses, a war monitor said...
BAF accords reception to gallantry award holder freedom fighters, their successors
Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Hasan Mahmood Khan on Friday accorded a reception to the gallantry award holder freedom fighters of Bangladesh Air Force, heroic members of 鈥楰ilo Flight鈥� and their successors at BAF Shaheen Hall at Tejgaon in Dhaka.
Khaleda Zia makes first public appearance at Senakunja in 12 years
Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia made her first appearance at the Armed Forces Day reception at Senakunja in 12 years on Thursday.
Chief adviser Yunus pays homage to armed forces martyrs
Bangladesh's interim government chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Wednesday paid glowing tributes to the armed forces martyrs, who made supreme sacrifices during the War of Independence in 1971, on the occasion of the Armed Forces Day.
Traffic restricted in Dhaka Cantonment Thursday for Armed Forces Day
Vehicular movement in Dhaka Cantonment is restricted today (Thursday), in observance of Armed Forces Day...
Bangladesh to celebrate Armed Forces Day on Nov 21
The Armed Forces Day will be observed today amid festivity and enthusiasm marking the establishment of the army, navy and air forces during the 1971 Liberation War...
Khaleda Zia, Tarique Rahman get invitation to join Armed Forces Day programme
Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia, acting chairman Tarique Rahman, secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir have been invited to join the programme of Armed Forces Day on November 21.
5 Maoists killed in India
Indian security forces have killed five Maoist rebels in jungle clashes, an officer said Sunday, as security forces seek to quash the decades-long insurgency in the resource-rich central regions...
Restriction imposed on vehicular movement inside cantonment on Nov 21
Restriction has been imposed on vehicular movement inside the Dhaka cantonment on November 21 marking Armed Forces Day, says a press release.
Bangladesh Navy to open ships to public on Nov 21
People from all walks of life will be able to visit ships of the Bangladesh Navy in Dhaka, Chattogram, Khulna, Barishal and Chandpur on the occasion of the 鈥楢rmed Forces Day鈥� on November 21, says a press release on Sunday.
Israeli forces strike deadly bombing in Gaza
Israeli forces carried out new deadly bombings targeting Hamas in Gaza on Wednesday, as international mediators prepared to propose a short-term truce to free hostages and avert a humanitarian catastrophe...
The strategic cost of military commercialisation
I WAS reading an article by my senior, Commodore Abdur Razzak, about 鈥楩orces Goal 2030 and Beyond鈥� in 抖阴精品, and it took me back, back to the 1990s, when the question was always the same. Could we win if, say, other, neighbouring countries invade us? Could we meaningfully contribute to national development? It was as if these doubts were...
Juba Dal leader killed in drive by joint forces
A Juba Dal leader was killed in an arrest operation by the joint forces in Golpukurpar area of Mymensingh on Tuesday.
8 held with arms, ammunition in Cox鈥檚 Bazar
At least eight people were arrested with weapons and ammunition during the joint forces鈥� drive in Sadar upazila of Cox鈥檚 Bazar in the small hours of Friday.
BFIU freezes ex-DGFI DG Saiful Alam鈥檚 bank accounts
The Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit on Tuesday directed banks and financial institutions to freeze bank accounts of former director general of the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence...
Railway to get 3 taskforces to check irregularities
The interim government鈥檚 railways adviser, Muhammad Fauzul Kabir Khan, on Monday ordered to form three taskforces for checking ticket blacking, late running of trains and management of railway land...
Major General Faizur Rahman appointed as new DG of DGFI
Major general Md Faizur Rahman has been appointed as the director general of Directorate General of Forces Intelligence...
Fighting in Syria kills 13
Fighting between pro-Iranian groups supporting the Syrian government and Kurdish-led forces killed 13 people, mostly civilians, a war monitor said Friday...