Internal conflict in Bangladesh

Islamist group Ash Shabab fighters attacked a police station in Puntland, a semi-autonomous region, and killed at least 7 people, police said, reports novini. 

A Bangladesh court on Jan. 16 sentenced 26 people to death after hearing how a politician from the ruling Awami League hired members of the country's elite security unit to assassinate political rivals.

A masked gang wielding machetes hacked a secular blogger to death May 12 in northeastern Bangladesh in the third such deadly attack by suspected Islamists since February.