New Delhi, Aug. 23 -- In November 2025, a car bomb detonated near the Red Fort in New Delhi, killing eleven people. United Nations investigators who tracked the attack to Al-Qaida in the Indian Subcontinent said the group's footprint in Bangladesh is now the most important fact in understanding what comes next.

1,611 militants are reportedly active in Bangladesh, and more than 370 individuals charged under counter-terrorism statutes remain at large.

What makes the report more than a routine warning is the way it describes AQIS's structure. The group is not organizing itself as a single large network in Bangladesh, the monitoring team found - it is operating through small, dispersed cells specifically to avoid detection. The team framed ...