Four police officers were wounded when the militant attacked them with machetes, a pistol and grenades

  Gunmen attacked the restaurant in the diplomatic area of Dhaka late on Friday and took about 20 hostages

  Police believe that Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh, which has pledged allegiance to Islamic State, was involved in organizing the cafe attack...

 

  The attack marked a major escalation in the scale and brutality of militant violence aimed at forcing strict Islamic rule...

  IS may be trying to build affiliates in countries such as Bangladesh for jihadists to launch attacks locally and cheaply.

 

  All 20 victims were foreigners, most of whom were killed by "sharp weapons".

  Islamic State, which has claimed the attacks, posted photos of what it said were dead foreigners killed in the assault

  The hostage crisis marks an escalation from a recent spate of murders claimed by Islamic State and al Qaeda on liberals,...

A blogger was hacked to death by machete-wielding assailants in the Bangladesh capital Dhaka on Monday

  Police say Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury, a Canadian citizen and the prime suspect, is still at large in Dhaka.

Rafida Ahmed criticized the Bangladeshi government for not responding more aggressively to her husband's slaying

  "There were about 100 people inside when the fire broke out."

Weak fire protection systems are common in factories in Bangladesh