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But analysts say the Rohingya community is unlikely to be involved in terror activities.

No one has claimed responsibility for the bombing, which took place inside a religious shrine at a major intersection.

The province's economic growth is still the smallest in the Sumatra region and corruption is rampant.

Indian authorities are also hunting for whoever was responsible for a grenade explosion at a local mosque.

Both suspects in the slaying of Niladri Chottopaddhya belong to the outlawed group Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT), police say.

Meanwhile, Thailand issues arrest warrants for 26 more people wanted in connection with a human-trafficking scandal.

“I honor the temple as much as I do the mosque,” says its principal caretaker, an adherent of Islam.

So far this year, 44 women and girls have died after being raped, an NGO says.

An opposition party and a group of hackers come after Najib Razak over questions about how hundreds of millions of dollars landed in his bank accounts.

Human rights advocates have accused the Thai military of forcing people in the insurgency-affected Deep South to give authorities DNA samples.

"That night, my mother made me promise that I would find a way to escape and never return to Burma,” Mohammed Tahir says.

The Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh members are convicted and sentenced for their roles in a series of bombings in 2005.

But members of the country’s secular blogging community don’t feel safe and are trying to flee abroad.

Suspects are seldom nabbed at the scene of the crime – even those committed in broad daylight.

The rise of the Islamic State (IS) terror group emboldens extremists, police official says.

Niladri Chottopaddhya, whose pen name was Niloy Neel, became the fourth secular blogger killed by alleged Islamists this year.

Five secular bloggers have been murdered for criticizing religious fundamentalism in their homeland – four of them this year.

Lutfor Rahman’s arrest and the recent arrests of other suspected JMB members of the extremist group is refocusing attention on the banned extremist group.

After 515 days, the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 finally yields its first piece of hard evidence that the plane went down in the Indian ...

“Conclusive” confirmation shows Boeing 777 crashed in the Indian Ocean, Najib Razak tells the nation.

Up to 1,000 trafficking victims may be trapped aboard fishing boats moored at the port of Ambon, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) says.

Arrest comes shortly after U.S. criticizes Thailand’s efforts to fight human trafficking.

But their two Indian colleagues still remain in captivity in the North African country.

Mohammad Rakib, 12, became the second child to die a horrific death in less than a month.

Sarawak Report editor fires back at government officials, saying “it is they who are being detrimental to democracy.”

But a more militant faction of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland is not a party to the accord.

The Deep South rebellion is undercutting people’s livelihoods and forcing many to move off their land, researchers say.

While it remains unclear whether Islamic State militants took them, an official says the government is thinking of devising a strategy to safeguard Indians in ...

Six members of an all-volunteer force are seriously wounded but said to be in stable condition.

At least 50,000 stateless people living in Bangladeshi and Indian pockets along the border will be offered citizenship through a territorial trade.