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Artillery, gunships ‘pound militant hideouts’ in Tirah

by Ibrahim Shinwari in Dawn, December 9th, 2023KHYBER: Security forces carried out heavy bombardments on the hideouts of suspected terrorists in Tirah Valley of Khyber district on Friday, according to local sources. Separately, five terrorists were killed during an intelligence-based operation in Tank district. There was no official statement from the Inter-Services Public Relations, the military’s media affairs department, on the operation in the valley. However, sources told Dawn that the alleged hideouts were pounded…

New JMB setting up hideouts in Hindu communities: report

by Tarek Mahmud  in Dhaka Tribune, Mar 30, 2017 New Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (New JMB) has adopted a new strategy of setting up its hideouts in Hindu-populated neighbourhoods across Bangladesh aiming to deceive law enforcement. This trend was detected after several New JMB hideouts were found this month in Chittagong’s Sitakunda, Sylhet and Moulvibazar areas. According to police, New JMB members Kamal and his wife Arjina, who were arrested alive from Sitakunda, confessed that the…

Another militant den discovered in Comilla: report in Dhaka Tribune, Mar 30, 2017

By Mohiuddin Molla & Arifur Rahman Rabbi Comilla/Dhaka:  Law enforcers on Wednesday discovered a den of terrorists at south Bagmara village in Kotbari of Comilla Sadar south upazila, while two other suspected militant hideouts in Borohat and Nasirpur areas of Moulvibazar Sadar upazila had already been cordoned off the same day. They have laid a siege to the suspected hideout, Superintendent of Police of Comilla Shah Abid Hossain told reporters. Preferring to be anonymous, an…