DHAKA, Bangladesh – A former Bangladeshi Islamist party leader who was convicted of war crimes involving his country's 1971 independence war has died of a heart attack in a prison cell of a government ...

DHAKA, BangladeshDHAKA, Bangladesh — A tribunal ordered the former chief of Bangladesh’s largest Islamic party jailed Wednesday pending trial on charges he instigated deadly rampages against civilians ...

Ghulam Azam was sentenced to 90 years behind bars for committing war crimes during Bangladesh’s 1971 war of independence with Pakistan. Shafqat Munir, associate research fellow at the Bangladesh ...

Ghulam Azam, sentenced to 90 years in jail on Monday for crimes committed during Bangladesh’s 1971 liberation war, was the Islamist mastermind behind the atrocities who was compared with Hitler by ...

The 90-year-old head of Bangladesh's largest Islamist party has been sentenced to 90 years in prison for his role in war crimes dating to the country's 1971 war for independence. Ghulam Azam was ...