Four leaders of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) were arrested on Wednesday over attacking two other leaders at a dormitory of Barishal University. The arrestees are- Alim Salehi, Riaj Uddin Molla, Shamim Shikdar and Shiekh Refat Mahmud, students of the university. Barisal Metropolitan Police Deputy Commissioner Ali Ashraf Bhuiyan said they arrested them after conducting drives at different places in Barishal in early hour of today. Read more: 2 BCL leaders injured in attack by helmet-wearing miscreants at Barishal University dormitory “We are interrogating the arrestees,” he said adding, efforts are on to arrest the others who were involved in the attack. Provost Abu Zafar of Sher-e-Bangla Hall said a group of 10-15 miscreants, wearing helmets, swooped on BCL leader Mohiuddin Ahmed Sifat while he was asleep and stabbed him in the dead of night on Tuesday. Later, they also entered the room of Fahad and stabbed him indiscriminately. Hands of Fahad were broken. Before the attack, the miscreants put the rooms of other students under lock and key from outside. They were taken to Sher-e-Bangla Medical College and Hospital Tuesday morning. Read more: Barishal University student succumbs to injuries suffered in road crash Some students alleged that Sifat established reign of terror in the area and he had many rivals for these activities. Those who have been arrested are organizing members of university unit BCL. All the victims and accused in the attack are followers of Barishal City Corporation Mayor Serniabat Sadiq Abdullah.

Three people, including an Awami League leader, were killed in an attack by a buffalo at Delduar upazila in Tangail district on Sunday and Monday. The deceased were identified as Hasmat Ali Khan, President of Lauhati union unit Awami League, one Kitab Ali, and Hazera Begum, wife of Azgar Ali of Tarutia village in the upazila. Nasir Uddin Mridha, officer-in-charge of Delduar Police Station, said Sharif Mia of Baropakhia village of the upazila purchased two buffaloes for farming on Sunday. Of these, one buffalo managed to tear off its noose. Read more: Sherpur man killed in wild elephant attack At one stage, the buffalo started to attack people, leaving 25 injured. They were taken to different hospitals. Among the injured, Hazera succumbed to her injuries at Mirzapur Kumudini Hospital around 3 pm on Sunday while Hasmat died at Savar Enam Medical College and Hospital and and Kitab Ali on the way to Dhaka, both on Monday night.

French media are reporting that people have been stabbed at a Paris train station and the interior minister says several people were injured before police “rapidly neutralized” the attacker. Media reports, quoting unnamed police sources, say police opened fire early Wednesday morning on the attacker who was armed with a knife and injured several people. Paris police say the incident at the Gare du Nord station is now over but are offering no other immediate details. Read more: US warns of possible attack in Islamabad amid security fears Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin also says the attacker injured several people at the station but his tweet gives no other details on their number or the extent of the injuries. He says the attacker was “rapidly neutralized."

Israel’s military fired missiles toward the international airport of Syria's capital early Monday, putting it out of service and killing two soldiers and wounding two others, the Syrian army said. The attack, the second in seven months to put the Damascus International Airport out of service, caused material damage in a nearby area, the army said, without giving further details. Israel has targeted airports and ports in government-held parts of Syria in an apparent attempt to prevent arms shipments from Iran to militant groups backed by Tehran, including Lebanon's Hezbollah. Read more: Israel indicts soldiers for trying to bomb Palestinian home An opposition war monitor reported the Israeli strikes hit the airport as well as an arms depot close to the facility south of Damascus. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said four people were killed in the strike. There was no comment from Israel. On June 10, Israeli airstrikes that struck Damascus International Airport caused significant damage to infrastructure and runways. It reopened two weeks later after repairs. In September, Israeli airstrikes hit the international airport of the northern city of Aleppo, Syria's largest and once commercial center, also putting it out of service for days. In late 2021, Israeli warplanes fired missiles that struck the port of Latakia hitting containers and igniting a huge fire. Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes on targets inside government-controlled parts of Syria in recent years, but rarely acknowledges or discusses such operations. Read more: 4 Palestinians killed in flare-up as Israel counts votes Israel has acknowledged, however, that it targets bases of Iran-allied militant groups, such as Lebanon’s Hezbollah, which has sent thousands of fighters to support Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces. Thousands of Iran-backed fighters have joined Syria's 11-year civil war and helped tip the balance of power in Assad’s favor. Israel says an Iranian presence on its northern frontier is a red line that justifies its strikes on facilities and weapons inside Syria.

A union parishad (UP) member was attacked with sharp weapons followed by one of his rivals being similarly attacked, in an apparent sequel to a longstanding feud over establishing political dominance in Kalia Upazila in Narail.  The injured UP member was identified as Enamul Haque Ena, 50, a member of ward no.7 of Purulia Union, also a former cooperative affairs secretary of Kalia upazila BNP.  A person named Himu Sheikh (40) from Ena’s rival camp was then attacked with sharp weapons and the group leader Khairul Islam’s house was vandalized. Two assailants hacked Enamul indiscriminately around 2pm on Sunday, according to locals, when he was returning home from the mosque.   The assailants fled the scene leaving him seriously injured after the intervention of locals.   He was rushed to Narail Modern Sadar Hospital and later transferred to Jessore Medical College and Hospital in critical condition. According to the police and locals, there had been enmity between Ena and Khairul’s group over establishing dominance in the area.  After Safu Sheikh, the candidate from Khairul Islam’s group, lost to Ena in the UP election last year, the conflict took a major turn.  Himu Sheikh was attacked around 4pm, two hours after the attack on Ena. People from the Ena group vandalised and looted Khairul Islam’s house in another incident. Sheikh Tasmeem Alam, Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Kalia Police Station said, they are investigating the attacks.  “Additional police have been deployed in the area. The situation is calm now,” he added. Read more: Cox's Bazar-Teknaf highway blocked protesting detention of UP member 'found with yaba'

The U.S. Embassy in Islamabad on Sunday warned its staff of a possible attack on Americans at a top hotel in Pakistan's capital as the city was already on high alert following a suicide bombing earlier in the week. The U.S. government is aware of information that “unknown individuals are possibly plotting to attack Americans at the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad sometime during the holidays," the embassy said in a security alert. The advisory banned its American personnel from visiting the popular hotel over the holidays. Read more: Afghan forces shell border town, killing 6: Pakistani army The U.S. mission also urged all personnel to refrain from non-essential travel in Islamabad during the holiday season. The embassy directive came two days after a suicide bombing in a residential area of the capital killed a police officer and wounded ten others. The explosion happened when police stopped a taxi for inspection during a patrol. According to the police, a rear seat passenger detonated explosives he was carrying, blowing up the vehicle. Militants with the Pakistani Taliban, who are separate from but allied with Afghanistan's rulers, later claimed the attack. Read more: Pakistan launches operation to free officers held by Taliban Islamabad's administration has since put the city on high alert, banning public gatherings and processions, even as campaigns are ongoing for upcoming local elections. Police have stepped up patrols and established snap checkpoints to inspect vehicles across the city. A suicide bombing targeted the capital's Marriott Hotel in September 2008, in one of the deadliest such incidents in the capital. Attackers drove a dump truck up to the hotel's gates before detonating it, killing 63 people and wounding over 250 others.

Several Pakistani Taliban detainees have managed to overpower their guards at a counter-terrorism center in northwestern Pakistan, snatching police weapons and taking control of the facility, officials said Monday. The militants at the detention center in Bannu, a district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and part of a former tribal region, also took police and others inside the compound hostage, according to Mohammad Ali Saif, a spokesman for the provincial government. Officials say at least 30 Taliban fighters are involved in the takeover and that there could be as many as 10 hostages being held. The brazen action reflected the Pakistani government’s inability to exercise control at all times over the remote region along the border with Afghanistan. The Pakistani Taliban are a separate group but also allied with the Afghan Taliban, who seized power in the neighboring country last year, as U.S. and NATO troops were in the final stages of their pullout from Afghanistan. Few other details have emerged about the incident, which started late on Sunday — apparently while police were interrogating the Taliban detainees, according to Saif. By Monday morning, Pakistan had dispatched military troops and special police forces to the area as security official were trying to negotiate with the hostage-takers. Saif said the place was surrounded and that an operation was underway. He did not elaborate. Read: Taliban official: 27 people lashed in public in Afghanistan Authorities were still in talks with the hostage-takers, enlisting the help of several relatives of the Taliban insurgents, security officials told The Associated Press. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to reporters. The officials said some soldiers were also among the hostages. There were concerns that the military could storm the facility if negotiations fail. In a video message circulating on social media, the hostage-takers threatened to kill the officers if their safe passage was not quickly arranged by the government. Mohammad Khurasani, a spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban — also known as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan or TTP — confirmed the incident. He said some of the hostage-takers were members of the Pakistani Taliban who had been detained for years. Khurasani said the TTP fighters were demanding safe passage to North or South Waziristan. Those areas were a Taliban stronghold until a wave of military offensives over the past years declared the region cleared of insurgents. Since then, TTP’s top leaders and fighters have been hiding in neighboring Afghanistan though the militants still have relatively free reign in patches of the province. Earlier, in a video message, the hostage-takers had demanded they be airlifted to Afghanistan but Khurasani said that demand had been made by mistake, since their fighters were not aware — due to their prolonged detention — that TTP now “enjoys control in some” parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, near the Afghan border. Read: Taliban captured, bound and shot to death 27 men in Afghan province: Report The Pakistani Taliban have stepped up attacks on security forces since last month, when they unilaterally ended a monthslong cease-fire with the Pakistani government. The violence has strained relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers, who had brokered the cease-fire in May. The TTP has waged an insurgency in Pakistan over the past 15 years, fighting for stricter enforcement of Islamic laws in the country, the release of their members who are in government custody and a reduction of Pakistani military presence in the country’s former tribal regions.

A Higher Secondary School Certificate (HSC) examinee was stabbed by some unidentified people in front of his exam centre in Patuakhali Thursday. Md Faisal Akon, 18, is from Hajikhali village in Madarbunia union of Patuakhali Sadar upazila and a student of Patuakhali Government College. He is taking this year's HSC examination from the Science group. The incident took place in front of the Abdul Karim Mridha College exam centre in Patuakhali municipality around 12:45pm and Faisal was taken to Patuakhali Medical College Hospital with serious injuries. Read: Rohingya leader shot, stabbed to death in Cox’s Bazar Faisal said he went to the test centre to sit for his Biology Second Paper exam. "When I came out after the exam, five to six people forcibly took me from the gate of the centre and started beating me up as I tried to scream. At one point they stabbed me with a knife." Although the 18-year-old said he managed to flee the scene to the college principal's room, he could not tell the reason behind the attack. Md Moniruzzaman, officer-in-charge (OC) of Patuakhali Sadar Police Station, said: "Police visited the spot. No one has filed a complaint over the incident. We will take action if anyone files a complaint." Read: Chandpur teen stabbed to death after argument over World Cup match Acting principal of Patuakhali Abdul Karim Mridha College ANM Saifuddin said: "Foysal's hands were badly wounded in the attack that happened outside the college. He ran to my room to take shelter and was bleeding profusely." "Foysal has an exam on Sunday. We will make an alternative arrangement, as per the rules, if he cannot write with his hands," Gazi Jafar Iqbal, secretary of the Teachers' Association of Patuakhali Government College, said. "Also, the college will take action against the attackers."

A Dhaka court on Wednesday placed three leaders of BNP and its front organisations on one-day remand each in a case over the attack on former Supreme Court Judge JAHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik. Those remanded are- BNP’s Dhaka Metropolitan South unit joint convener Harunur Rashid Harun, Swechchhasebak Dal's Central Committee vice-president Rafiq Howlader, and Jubo Dal's central committee former vice-president Ali Akbar Chunni. Dhaka's Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Md Tofazzal Hossain passed the order when the investigation officer of the case and sub-inspector of Detective Branch of police Md Forman Ali produced them before the court with a five-day remand prayer. Read: BNP women’s front leader sent to remand in case under DSA The counsel of the accused Masud Ahmed Talukdar submitted a petition seeking their bail after canceling the remand order. On Tuesday, DB police arrested the trio from the city. On November 3, 11 leaders and activists of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal(JCD) were placed on a two-day remand in the case. According to the case statement, the attack was made from a procession of the BNP in Nayapaltan area on November 2. Read: Attack on ex-justice Manik: 11 JCD activists put on 2-day remand The retired Supreme Court judge came under attack on this way to attend a TV talk show. A case was filed against 50 unidentified BNP men in connection with the attack. The former judge’s gunman Md Rafiqul Islam filed the case against the BNP men at Paltan police station.

Two car bombs exploded Saturday at a busy junction in Somalia's capital near key government offices, causing “scores of civilian casualties" including children, national police said. One hospital worker counted at least 30 bodies amid fears of possibly many more. The attack in Mogadishu occurred on a day when the president, prime minister and other senior officials were meeting to discuss expanded efforts to combat violent extremism, especially by the al-Qaida-affiliated al-Shabab group that often targets the capital. It also came five years after another massive blast in the exact same location killed over 500 people. There was no immediate claim of responsibility. Al-Shabab rarely claims attacks with large numbers of civilians killed, as in the 2017 blast. But President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud blamed al-Shabab by name, calling the attack “cruel and cowardly.” A volunteer at the Medina hospital, Hassan Osman, said “out of the total of at least 30 dead people brought to the hospital, the majority of them are women. I have seen this with my own eyes.” At the hospital and elsewhere, frantic relatives peeked under plastic sheeting and into body bags, looking for loved ones. The Aamin ambulance service said they had collected at least 35 wounded. One ambulance responding to the first attack was destroyed by the second blast, director Abdulkadir Adan added in a tweet. “I was 100 meters away when the second blast occurred,” witness Abdirazak Hassan said. “I couldn't count the bodies on the ground due to the (number of) fatalities.” He said the first blast hit the perimeter wall of the education ministry, where street vendors and money changers were located. An Associated Press journalist at the scene said the second blast occurred in front of a busy restaurant during lunchtime. The blasts demolished tuk-tuks and other vehicles in an area of many restaurants and hotels. He saw “many” bodies and said they appeared to be civilians traveling on public transport. The Somali Journalists Syndicate, citing colleagues and police, said one journalist was killed and two others wounded by the second blast while rushing to the scene of the first. The attack occurred at Zobe junction, which was the scene of a huge al-Shabab truck bombing in 2017 that killed more than 500 people. Somalia’s government has been engaged in a high-profile new offensive against the extremist group that the United States has described as one of al-Qaida’s deadliest organizations. The president has described it as “total war" against the extremists, who control large parts of central and southern Somalia and have been the target of scores of U.S. airstrikes in recent years. The extremists have responded by killing prominent clan leaders in an apparent effort to dissuade support for that government offensive. On Saturday, Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre said the attack would not dampen the public uprising against al-Shabab, and he and the president expressed the government's determination to wipe out the extremist group.