Bangladesh

Bangladesh expresses interest in joining Gaza stabilization force

Bangladesh said its national security adviser, Khalilur Rahman, met US diplomats Allison Hooker and Paul Kapur in Washington.

Soldiers sit atop an APC after armed forces were deployed, following a clash during a National Citizen Party rally, in Gopalganj, Bangladesh, July 16, 2025
A Pakistani Air Force JF-17 Thunder fighter jet, painted with the national flag, flies past during the Pakistan National Day parade in Islamabad, March 23, 2007; illustrative.

Pakistan, Saudi in talks on JF-17 jets-for-loans deal, sources say

A supporter of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) holds a party flag while posing for a photo in front of the stage ahead of a rally to be attended by BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman after his return from London, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, December 23, 2025.

Bangladesh's Gen Z party shaken over alliance with Islamist Jamaat

Tulip Siddiq Labour MP for Hampstead and Kilburn shadow economic secretary to the treasury attends the Fawcett Society Womens Conference on October 14, 2023 in London, England.

British MP Tulip Siddiq sentenced to two years in prison in Bangladesh graft case


UN to cut food aid for Rohingya refugees, citing fund shortfall

The World Food Program said it would reduce the value of its food assistance to $10 per person from $12 starting next month.

Rohingya refugees sit on wooden benches of a navy vessel on their way to the Bhasan Char island in Noakhali district, Bangladesh, December 29, 2020.

Boy plays hide-and-seek, ends up in a foreign country

The boy is from Bangladesh and was playing hide-and-seek. He hid inside a large shipping container and fell asleep.

 Stack of shipping containers at Bassendean, Western Australia.

Israeli spyware and surveillance tools sold to Bangladesh - report

Israel and Bangladesh do not have diplomatic relations and Bangladesh bans imports from Israel.

 Police officers check commuters at a checkpost during a countrywide lockdown, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, July 1, 2021.

2022 deadliest year for Rohingya at sea in years as 180 presumed drowned

Nearly 1 million Rohingya from Myanmar are living in crowded facilities in Muslim-majority Bangladesh.

 Locals stand near a wooden boat used to carry Rohingya?refugees at a beach in Ladong village, Aceh province, Indonesia, December 25, 2022, in this photo taken by Antara Foto.

Hundreds of thousands evacuated as Bangladesh braces for cyclone

Authorities in Bangladesh were evacuating hundreds of thousands of people on Monday before Cyclone Sitrang made landfall.

 People wade through a flooded street amid continuous rain before the Cyclone Sitrang hits the country in Dhaka, Bangladesh, October 24, 2022.

Israel quashes PA bid to single it out at Asian forum

The forum, of what is now 27 member states including the PA, puts Israel at the same table with countries with which it has no relations such as Iran and Pakistan.

 Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas at the 2022 CICA conference.

UNHRC gets 14 new members – including 3 that don’t recognize Israel

The vote for new UNHRC members is held annually in a secret ballot by the 193-member General Assembly in New York, with a third of the council’s membership rotating every year.

 Deputy Minister, Alvin Botes delivers a National Statement at the Annual High Level Panel on Human Rights Mainstreaming under the theme “Thirty years of implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child: challenges and opportunities”, at the UNHRC, Geneva.

Greece to protest to Serbia over Ukrainian cargo plane crash - sources

Greek opposition parties have accused the conservative government of not providing information on the cargo and urged it to investigate the incident further.

 Debris is seen at the crash site of an Antonov An-12 cargo plane owned by a Ukrainian company, near Kavala, Greece, July 17, 2022.

Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury - my Zionist friend from Bangladesh

He is a Muslim and a Zionist. He stands for Israel and the Jews. He literally fights our battle.

 A painting of the House of Gosler in which the writer’s family lived before the Holocaust on what used to be Jodenhouttuinen 1, and is now a café in the middle of the Jewish neighborhood of Amsterdam.

What are the prospects for Israel-Bangladesh relations?

We cannot expect things to change overnight, but the removal of the travel restrictions against Israel hints at the prospects of future diplomatic relations.

 A boy poses under a massive Bangladeshi flag in front of the parliamentary building in Dhaka, celebrating the country’s 50th Victory Day anniversary.