Terrorism Watch

A Delhi-based human rights watchdog, the Rights & Risks Analysis Group (RRAG), has alleged a series of targeted attacks against Hindu minorities in Bangladesh, including arson incidents and at least 17 killings since early December 2025, amid ongoing election-related unrest. In a report released on Saturday, RRAG claimed that multiple incidents of violence took place between December 1, 2025 and January 31, 2026, affecting minority communities across several districts. According to the report, homes, temples, and other properties belonging to at least 16 Hindus were set on fire during the two-month period. Seven of these incidents were reported within the past week alone. The alleged attacks were concentrated in Mirsarai and Raozan in the Chittagong region, along with incidents in Pirojpur and Sylhet. RRAG stated that the Chittagong area recorded the highest number of arson cases. The group listed several affected families and individuals whose houses were allegedly destroyed in th...

The Meghalaya police have launched a probe into a poster, purportedly linked to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), threatening the indigenous communities of the State’s West Garo Hills district to vacate their lands. The English diktat, pasted on a pole, primarily warned the tribal Garo people residing in Phulbari, Rajabala, Tikrikilla, Selsela, Garobadha, and Tura (district headquarters) of “serious consequences” if they do not vacate their plots by 2027. The district’s Superintendent of Police, Abraham T. Sangma , said a suo-motu case was registered to find out who pasted the “provocative” poster and why. “Preliminary assessment indicates some people or groups with vested interests may have done this deliberately to create anxiety and disturb the law-and-order situation,” he said. “Psychological warfare” On Wednesday (January 28, 2029), the Confederation of Meghalaya Social Organisations (CoMSO) petitioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi , Home Minister Amit Shah , and Chief...

Operation Herof: Police vans, police stations and jails attacked; series of explosions and intense gunfire reported; BLA fighters take control of Eastern Bypass Baloch fighters launched  coordinated attacks  on seven major cities, including provincial capital Quetta, in Pakistan’s Balochistan, in what is being called the second phase of its deadly Operation Herof. According to sources, 18 Pakistan security personnel have been killed, while 43 have been injured in the attacks. The BLA separatists have reportedly entered dozens of cities across Balochistan. “The situation in Quetta city is extremely critical, and an emergency has been declared in all hospitals. Exchange of fire and explosions between security forces and fighters in various areas of Quetta," said local sources.   Police officers were martyred in an attack on a police van on Saryab Road in Quetta. Meanwhile, an attack on the Khaliq Shaheed police station has also been reported. Reports indicate an attack on M...

People from different communities and tribes across Manipur held a massive rally in an affirmation of the idea of Manipur as a land for all communities that have been living together Imphal/Guwahati:  Hundreds of people including internally displaced persons (IDPs) from different communities and tribes across Manipur held a massive rally today, seeking safe and timely rehabilitation, and protection of the border state's territorial integrity. The IDPs came from relief camps spread across the state, lending the rally a powerful humanitarian dimension and underscoring the prolonged displacement and hardship faced by thousands since Meitei-Kuki ethnic violence began in May 2023. In an affirmation of the idea of Manipur as a land for all communities that have been living together, members of the Meitei community, Thadou tribe, Naga tribes, Muslims and other communities came together on a single platform - a rare sight in the state bordering Myanmar. A section of the Kuki tribes want to...

The blast occurred in an eight-storey structure located on Moallem Boulevard, destroying two floors of the building and damaging nearby vehicles and shops. A powerful explosion struck a residential building in Iran’s southern port city of Bandar Abbas on Saturday, causing extensive damage, with authorities yet to determine the cause. According to Iranian state television, the blast occurred in an eight-storey structure located on Moallem Boulevard, destroying two floors of the building and damaging nearby vehicles and shops. Visuals aired on state media showed the building’s façade blown apart, with debris strewn across the surrounding area and parts of the interior exposed. Emergency response teams, including firefighters and rescue personnel, were immediately deployed to the site to assist those affected. Iran’s official  IRNA  news agency quoted Hormozgan province’s crisis management director, Mehrdad Hassanzadeh, as saying that the cause of the explosion is under investiga...

The conviction of former Google engineer Linwei Ding highlights the growing threat of AI espionage and the importance of system-level AI engineering. A federal jury in San Francisco has convicted a former Google software engineer on multiple counts of economic espionage and trade secret theft, marking the United States' first-ever AI-related espionage conviction. Linwei Ding, also known as Leon Ding, 38, was found guilty on seven counts of economic espionage and seven counts of theft of trade secrets. Court documents reveal that Ding stole thousands of pages of confidential AI technology from Google, allegedly to benefit the People's Republic of China. According to the Department of Justice, the stolen trade secrets included in-depth details of Google's custom Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) architecture and its graphics processing unit (GPU) systems. They also contained information on Google's proprietary SmartNIC, a specialised network interface card that facilitates hig...

Ahmed, now identified as a terrorist with a reward of Rs 10 lakh on his head, ignored repeated pleas from his family. Months before her death, Jana Begum made an emotional appeal to her son, urging him to return home and abandon terrorism. Her request went unanswered. Her son, Riaz Ahmed, had left home 15 years ago to join the terrorist organisation Hizbul Mujahideen and never came back. In a moving message shared months earlier, Begum had told her son, “Come back, take care of me. If I die, shoulder my coffin." Questioning his choice, she had also said, “What kind of jihad is this, where parents are abandoned." Ahmed, now identified as a terrorist with a reward of Rs 10 lakh on his head, ignored repeated pleas from his family. Begum’s husband, Mohammad Ramzan, had also appealed to their son to give up violence and return home, according to a report by NDTV. Three days ago, when Jana Begum was laid to rest, her son was absent. His absence at the funeral highlighted the deep p...

  Mediation efforts led from Iraq’s Kurdistan region are gathering pace to avert a new escalation in northeastern Syria, as Damascus presses ahead with a Turkish-backed military campaign and Ankara seeks guarantees that Kurdish forces will be severed from the Kurdistan Workers Party . The Syrian Democratic Forces have lost areas previously under their control following a military operation launched by Damascus and strongly backed by Ankara, aimed at asserting control over all Syrian territory, as Kurdish factions demand what they describe as fair representation in government. Observers tend to believe Türkiye’s motivation for supporting the Syrian army’s offensive stems from fears that Kurdish self-rule in Syria could pave the way for secession. Ankara has repeatedly threatened to launch a military operation against Syrian Kurdish areas near its border unless SDF forces are integrated into the Syrian army. Part of the solution  Politicians in Erbil are pushing to support po...

HERMEL, Lebanon (AP) — Thousands of Shiite Muslims who fled Syria after  former President Bashar Assad's government  was toppled in an offensive by Sunni rebels in December 2024 have found a new home in Lebanon. Many of them stayed in mosques, schools or with relatives in Lebanon until the Imam Ali Housing Compound — funded by Lebanon's Shiite militant Hezbollah group and Shiite religious institutions in Iraq and Iran — was opened in late 2025. The camp, in the northeastern Lebanese town of Hermel, has nearly 230 housing units and is now home to both displaced Syrians and Lebanese.   Source:  https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/photos-shiite-muslims-displaced-syria-175830805.html

The capture happened after Friday's strike, in which three out of eight Hamas terrorists were killed while leaving a tunnel in Rafah, the military announced. The IDF announced the capture of one of Hamas's top remaining commanders during  Friday's operation in Rafah , where eight terrorists were identified by troops coming up from below the ground, and were then struck by the Israeli air force, successfully killing three of them. After the strikes, the IDF performed searches in the area and apprehended one of the fleeing terrorists. He was later identified as a key commander in Hamas’  Eastern Rafah Battalion . "IDF troops, together with the ISA, continue searches and additional activities in the area in order to locate and eliminate the additional terrorists," the military said. According to reports by Army Radio, the other four terrorists identified as leaving the tunnels were not captured, and their location remains unknown. Hamas members stand at the funeral o...

Trump has warned Iran to return to negotiations over its nuclear programme or face far harsher US action, while Tehran has threatened retaliation. Jerusalem:  A US Navy destroyer has docked at the Israeli port of Eilat, Israel's Ynet news website reported on Friday, citing the military, as tensions between Washington and Iran escalate. Ynet  said the arrival of the destroyer at the southern port on the Gulf of Aqaba, near Israel's borders with Egypt and Jordan, was pre-planned and part of ongoing cooperation between the US and Israeli militaries. The US Navy and Israeli military did not immediately respond to a  Reuters  request for comment. The deployment comes as US President Donald Trump signalled he was open to talks with Iran, even as Washington dispatched additional military assets to the Middle East. A US defence official told  Reuters  the military could not discuss operational details for security reasons, adding that the safety of service members ...

Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney has  said that he expects  the United States to respect the country’s sovereignty after reports that Alberta separatists have met several times with officials of the Donald Trump administration. The Financial Times  reported  that US State Department officials held meetings with the Alberta Prosperity Project (APP), a group calling for a referendum on whether the energy-rich western province should leave Canada. Speaking in Ottawa on Thursday, Carney said he has been clear with US President Donald Trump on the issue. “I expect the US administration to respect Canadian sovereignty,” he said, adding that after raising the issue, he wanted the two sides to focus on areas where they can work together. Carney is himself an Albertan, raised in Edmonton, the provincial capital. The province has had an independence movement for decades. Trump has repeatedly threatened to make  Canada the “51st state”  of the American Union. Here ...

The reopening is part of phase two of the US ceasefire. Previously, it was Gaza’s main crossing for people and trade with Egypt Israel said Friday that it will reopen the pedestrian border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt in both directions over the weekend, marking an important step forward for US President Donald Trump’s Gaza ceasefire plan. COGAT, the Israeli military body in charge of coordinating aid to Gaza, said in a statement that starting on Sunday a “limited movement of people only” would be allowed through the Rafah crossing, Gaza’s main gateway to the outside world. The announcement followed statements from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ali Shaath, newly appointed to head the Palestinian administrative committee governing Gaza’s daily affairs, that it would likely open soon. COGAT said both Israel and Egypt will vet individuals for exit and entry through the crossing, which will be supervised by European Union border patrol agents. In addition to sc...