Despite their fall from power, a half-dozen key Taliban leaders pose a threat to U.S. interests in Afghanistan (news – web sites) and elsewhere and remain high on America`s target list. Full Story

A bomb exploded in Cagayan de Oro City in the southern Philippines on Thursday but no one was hurt and police said they thought the blast was not the work of Muslim rebels linked to Osama bin Laden. Full Story

The family of a U.S. missionary couple held hostage by Muslim gunmen in the Philippines for almost 11 months accused the rebels on Thursday of reneging on a deal to free their captives. Full Story

US military advisers may join Filipino troops on combat patrols in the southern Philippines island of Basilan if their respective governments approve a plan now under discussion. Full Story

Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan was quoted as saying on Thursday that Iraqis would not be intimidated by a U.S. threat of military action, and that Iraq was capable of defeating the United States. Full Story

A makeshift court inside Yasser Arafat`s compound convicted four Palestinians on Thursday for the slaying of Israel`s tourism minister, but the move was unlikely to bring an end to Israel`s siege of the Palestinian leader. Full Story

The USS Cole returned to its home port Thursday a stronger, better ship than when a terrorists` bomb ripped it open and killed 17 of its sailors a year and a half ago in Yemen. Full Story

Arabic speakers, including hundreds of Arab-Americans, have flooded the FBI with applications for jobs as translators since Sept. 11, according to officials who say that some of those hired already are playing key roles in terrorism probes. Full Story

This Public Announcement is being updated to alert Americans to the potential for further terrorist actions against U.S. citizens abroad and that individuals may be planning terrorist actions against U.S. citizens and interests in the region of the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula. Full Story

Attackers believed to be Islamic militants killed 16 people, including eight children, in an assault Wednesday on nomadic families, the official Algerian news service reported. Full Story

A day after police arrested 11 terrorist suspects in a nationwide sweep, German Interior Minister Otto Schily warned on Wednesday that the country could become the target of attacks. Full Story

A bus driver was killed and 16 passengers wounded early on Thursday in a landmine blast in Jammu`s Udhampur district. No militant group has claimed responsibility for the blast as yet. Full Story

Several explosions rocked an area near the Muslim quarter of Indonesia`s eastern city of Ambon on Thursday, wounding at least two people and triggering a mob to torch a church, police and witnesses said. Full Story

ChevronTexaco said on Wednesday it had received word from Nigeria that armed militants holding dozens of hostages on a drilling rig offshore Nigeria have agreed to leave the rig Thursday morning. Full Story

Worshippers were hastily evacuated from a Moscow synagogue after a telephoned bomb threat, police here said. Full Story

Russia`s security service, the FSB, claims that Russian troops have succeeded in killing a leading rebel warlord in Chechnya. Full Story

The Sri Lankan ceasefire faced a severe test on Wednesday when the navy said it intercepted three boats carrying some 40 Tamil Tiger rebels. Full Story

Government-backed militants have threatened to seize property owned by members of Zimbabwe`s Indian community, who they have accused of being “economic looters”, unless they hand it over to blacks. Full Story

Taking a page from the military, the New York Police Department will send some of its top leaders to the Naval War College, in Newport, R.I., next month to play out a variety of disaster situations and improve their ability to respond to a terrorist attack. Full Story

The Cyberterror Response Center of the National Police Agency (NPA) said 22 hackers attacked 11,222 computer servers around the world from last August through March. Of the 6,287 servers whose locations were identified by the police, 39 percent were in South Korea, the highest figure in the world, the police added. The United States placed…

The technology industry must invent and invest in new ways to undermine terrorists targeting the United States, Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge said Tuesday night. Full Story

A team of experts is training students to become tomorrow`s super sleuths by arming them with the most advanced crime and terrorism analysis tools available today to a university. Full Story

The Coast Guard must bridge “significant gaps” in its information and communications capabilities in order to fight terrorism abroad, protect maritime commerce and prevent high-risk cargo from entering U.S. ports, a top Coast Guard information official said Monday. Full Story

U.S. intelligence officials believe the Chinese military is working to launch wide-scale cyber-attacks on American and Taiwanese computer networks, including Internet-linked military systems considered vulnerable to sabotage, according to a classified CIA report. Full Story

Part of the U.S. criminal investigation of the Sept. 11 attacks fell to pieces today when a British judge refused to extradite Lotfi Raissi, saying the Justice Department had produced no evidence to back up its allegation that the Algerian pilot was involved in the conspiracy. Full Story

About 1,000 passengers were evacuated from the Albuquerque International Sunport airport on Wednesday after a person entered the terminal without first being screened by security officials. Full Story

Baltimore-Washington International Airport will become the first in the country to have an all-federal security force by about mid-June, marking the national debut of the government`s air travel security system, officials said yesterday. Full Story

The federal government has decided to return flight paths for Reagan National Airport to their earlier pattern, end a late-night ban on flights and welcome back 757 jets — moving commercial aviation closer to the normalcy it knew before the September terrorist attacks. Full Story

Martin Gonzalez was among 14 Logan International Airport workers arraigned Tuesday on federal charges of lying on applications and presenting false Social Security numbers for jobs as airport janitors, security checkpoint screeners, and food service workers. Full Story

Declaring that the nation`s airlines face their biggest challenge since commercial aviation was deregulated in 1978, former American Airlines Chairman Robert Crandall said stimulating lagging customer demand after Sept. 11 is the biggest obstacle facing an industry that lost a staggering $6 billion last year. Full Story

Israel, Britain and other countries are moving to acquire stocks of smallpox vaccine as the United States and Russia weigh proposals to begin vaccinating parts of their populations against the disease, according to American and Russian officials and health experts. Full Story

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Seven months after President Bush asked them to develop homeland defense programs, states have responded in a range of ways. Some have set aside money to begin planning; many others are awaiting further guidance from the federal government, which plans to distribute $3.5 billion in security funding beginning in October. A look at what the…

Philippine police on Wednesday arrested three more Muslim suspects for bomb blasts that killed l5 people and said they were investigating possible links to Osama bin Laden`s al Qaeda network. Full Story

Tens of thousands of indirect victims of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center are struggling to obtain services because of narrowly drawn eligibility requirements for federal money and for the charities set up after Sept. 11, according to a study to be released today by the United Way of New York City. Full…

Citing “national defense and security” concerns, U.S. prosecutors opposed on Tuesday giving American Taliban John Walker Lindh`s lawyers direct access to detainees captured in Afghanistan and being held at a U.S. military base in Cuba. Full Story

Indonesia and the United States opened sensitive security and defense talks on Wednesday that marked a step forward in dialogue following a rupture in military ties over violence in East Timor in 1999. Full Story

Abu Zubaydah has plenty of reasons to lie to his American interrogators. After all, he`s Osama bin Laden`s top field commander and his knowledge of al-Qaida operations could be devastating to the terror network. Full Story

Slain Wall Street Journal correspondent Daniel Pearl was concerned that a meeting he had requested with an Islamic fundamentalist might be dangerous, an assistant to the American reporter testified Wednesday. Full Story

Voice Of America`s Middle East Radio Network (Radio Sawa meaning Radio Together), went on the air March 23 with the avowed aim of getting the ear of Arabs from Morocco to Oman – more than a dozen countries – and seeking to lure the majority younger population of the region with music while also giving…

The young men lived within a few blocks of one another in a Muslim pocket in this small town near Birmingham. They were out of school and often on the streets, in the occasional fight, sometime smokers of marijuana. They were, in the slang of the British Midlands, “dossers” slackers, layabouts. Full Story

When the United States` top drug cop visited here recently, he traveled in bulletproof vans. Police with automatic weapons ringed the hotel where he slept. He was warned that if he left the city limits, he risked being kidnapped by rebels. Full Story

Colombia`s homegrown Marxist rebels have expanded greatly, forming training alliances and sharing bomb technology with terror groups from Ireland, Spain, Cuba and elsewhere, congressional investigators have concluded. Full Story

Pentagon officials have been discussing whether to secretly transfer a high-level al-Qaeda operative captured late last month in Pakistan to the Norfolk Naval Station in Virginia, sources close to the talks said Tuesday. Full Story

This Public Announcement is being issued to reflect updated information concerning the general security environment in the Philippines and to add recent examples of threats and crimes against American citizens, including armed attacks and murder. Full Story

This Public Announcement is being issued to alert U.S. citizens to the continued potential for terrorist activity by Sendero Luminoso and other groups in Peru, in the weeks leading up to and following May 17, an important anniversary for these groups. Full Story

This Public Announcement is being issued to alert American citizens to an increase in Maoist violence, including within Kathmandu itself, during the lead up to their call for bandhs (general strikes). Full Story

A gas truck explosion outside the oldest synagogue in Africa was a deliberate criminal attack – not an accident – the Tunisian government has acknowledged. Full Story

Spanish police have arrested a man thought to be a key figure in financing Osama Bin Laden`s al-Qaeda network. Full Story

Philippine police have arrested three more suspects over Sunday`s bombings in the southern city of General Santos, in which 15 people were killed. The police said they were looking into possible links with Osama Bin Laden`s al-Qaeda network. Full Story

The American oil company ChevronTexaco has said that 43 of its workers are being held hostage on an oil rig off western Nigeria by local youths. Company official Dick Filgate said that about 40 youths had stormed the rig, originally holding 88 workers captive, including 22 foreigners. Full Story

Rebels in Nepal have destroyed the family home of Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba. Full Story

Nepal has put bounties on the heads of Maoist leaders, at the start of a five-day general strike called by the rebels to protest against the state of emergency imposed in November last year. Full Story

Rebels kidnapped two men Tuesday on one of the few highways in Colombia considered safe from attack, the army said. Full Story

American college professor and peace activist Bernard Lafayette came to Colombia hoping to meet with Colombian rebels. He got his wish and almost wound up being kidnapped by them. Full Story

Findings from the Anthrax Vaccine Expert Committee (AVEC) do not suggest a high frequency of medically important adverse events associated with anthrax vaccination. Full Story

In federal court in Brooklyn this morning, a 51-year-old man is scheduled to defend himself against charges that he threw fistfuls of powder into a mailbox outside an elementary school. Full Story

The Bush administration last week laid out a range of options for securing critical government information systems, including everything from simply beefing up security on existing systems to building a governmentwide intranet that would wall off systems from the Internet. Full Story

More than 140 employees at the Washington area`s three major airports have been indicted on charges of lying about their identities or criminal pasts on applications to work near airplanes, runways and cargo, federal officials announced yesterday. Full Story

A man accused of breaching security at O`Hare International Airport by carrying seven knives past a checkpoint has been found mentally incompetent to stand trial, authorities said today. Full Story